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Yellen says Ukraine aid is the best boost for global economy
Yellen says Ukraine aid is the best boost for global economy
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Redoubling support for war-stricken Ukraine is the "single best" way to aid the global economy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday, along with boosting emerging economies and tackling debt distress. Yellen also pointed to efforts to tackle debt distress faced by struggling economies, bank reform and a global tax deal, and warned it was "premature" to talk of lifting tariffs on China.

Iraq honey production at the mercy of heat and drought
Iraq honey production at the mercy of heat and drought
Business and Economy
by  AFP

An oppressive heat beats down on the central Iraqi province of Babylon, where drought and rising temperatures are hitting bees and honey production hard. Three decades on and now in her early 50s, Maamuri has 250 bee hives in the province of Babylon, dozens of which she keeps in the courtyard of the family house.

Losses stack up for FTC's Khan in US antitrust crackdown
Losses stack up for FTC's Khan in US antitrust crackdown
Business and Economy
by  AFP

FTC chairman Lina Khan is on a mission to embolden US competition enforcers, but a series of court defeats has sowed doubt that she will put an end to decades of Washington's light-touch approach to antitrust regulation. "They are out on the frontier of antitrust," said John Lopatka, from Penn State's School of Law on Khan's fresh approach to enforcing competition policy.

London's new 'super sewer' to end Thames pollution blight
London's new 'super sewer' to end Thames pollution blight
Business and Economy
by  AFP

The door of the steel box lift clanks shut and a crane slowly lowers construction workers building London's "super sewer" 40 metres (130 feet) to the bottom of an enormous vertical shaft. The new 25-kilometre (15-mile) "super sewer", which is 7.2 metres in diameter, snakes from west to east following the curves of the river.