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Crisis-hit Sri Lanka reaches provisional agreement with IMF for $2.9 billion loan

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The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it had reached a staff-level agreement to support bankrupt Sri Lanka with a $2.9 billion bailout spread over four years. Financial assistance from the international lender of last resort is conditional on a plan to restructure the island nation’s $51 billion foreign debt after an April default.