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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s prime minister offered talks on Wednesday with protesters calling for the government to step down over its handing of an economic crisis as the opposition threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against it in parliament. The island nation of 22 million people is in the throes of its worst financial crisis since independence in 1948, with a foreign currency shortage stalling imports of fuel and medicines and bringing hours of power cuts a day. Thousands of people have taken to the streets, many staging a sit-in in the c…