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Asia Today: Maldives considers burying Sri Lankan Muslims

| December 16, 2020 12:06 AM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Maldives president’s office says it is discussing how to provide a “humane response” to a request from neighboring Sri Lanka to allow burials for Muslims who die of COVID-19.

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