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Smoke fills the sky over Gaza as several Israeli strikes continue to hit the Palestinian enclave for the fifth day after Hamas's unprecedented assault on southern Israel. IMAGES
It's Day One on the job for Britain's new prime minister, and as Russia squeezes natural gas exports, Liz Truss faces a wartime economy. And across the Channel, how to keep the light on? How to rein in inflation? As Europeans pool their energy purchases, tax windfall profits and collectively ease costs for consumers, will they include Britain and their now Brexiteer PM in that conversation?
In Lebanon, Khalil Mansour has to queue for hours every day just to buy bread for his family and some days he can't afford any as the country grapples with a financial crisis. The price of subsidised bread has gone up, although by less than if there were no subsidy, but bakeries have started rationing the staple product.
Long lines form in front of bakeries and supermarkets in the Lebanese capital Beirut, where people wait hours for a bag of subsidised Arabic bread -- in short supply as a years-long economic crisis depletes state coffers. Lebanon's parliament approved a $150 million World Bank loan to import wheat, as shortages of subsidised bread intensify in the cash-strapped country, according to local media. Lebanon imports 80 percent of its wheat from war-torn Ukraine, according to a representative of Lebanon's wheat importers. But wheat-exporting powerhouse Ukraine has struggled to sell and sow its crops since Russia's invasion in February, putting consumers in poorer countries at risk of poverty and even famine.
Tuk tuk drivers spend hours looking for petrol and standing in queues amid a worsening fuel crisis in Sri Lanka. "All we need is fuel, so we can at least make a living," says a tuk tuk driver who's been standing in a queue outside a petrol station for hours.
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