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Queen's death both challenge and reprieve for new UK leader

Liz Truss. [AP photo]

British Prime Minister Liz Truss took office less than two weeks ago, impatient to set her stamp on government and facing an overflowing inbox of crises: soaring inflation, a plummeting national currency and skyrocketing energy bills.

Then the death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth II ripped up Truss' carefully laid plans.

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