“Like slaves”: Lebanon’s delivery riders struggle as crisis bites

MAYA GEBEILY and TIMOUR AZHARI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the challenges facing freelance delivery workers in the Middle Eastern nation…
UK puts military on standby as panic buying hits fuel supplies

London, UK Reuters The British Government says it is putting the military on standby as part of further measures to address a supply chain crisis which has led fuel pumps to run dry amid panic-buying by motorists. The move to mobilise the army comes after a widespread shortage of truck drivers, which has led to […]