new legislation to" hobble" Russian President Vladimir Putin by making it more difficult for those

TRIPOLI/ BENGHAZI, Libya( Reuters)-Libya must reunify its fragmented economy and public finances if it stands any hope of ending a decade of violent division, but moves towards that goal are making slow progress.... Businesses and ordinary people struggle to carry out basic financial transactions, underscoring the continued dysfunction while also showing that peace moves have failed to stop rival factions competing to control economic levers.... Central Bank of Libya( CBL) Governor Sadiq al-Ka

“ Hamas is an idea, ” Daniel Hagari, the top spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said last month.... “ Anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong.” The IDF said last week it had killed about “ half ” of the group’s military leadership, but it did not respond to a request for comment on whether civilian employees of the Hamas-led government were military targets.... Municipal employees work to keep public utilities functioning....

Kazuo Tobe, pictured here in a field in the Gunma Prefecture city of Showa on Oct.... But this summer he had to abandon production in over 10 of the 50 greenhouses he set up, as he does not have enough workers to harvest them--a result of foreign trainees no longer being able to come to Japan and work at his farm.... For each trainee Tobe loses, his sales decline by about 5 million yen( roughly$ 44, 000) per year, he says....

Open this photo in gallery The July Mountain wildfire burns along the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt, B.C., on August 11, 2021. DARRYL DYCK/ The Canadian PressThe BC Wildfire Information Service says high temperatures, low humidity and an increase in winds are making wildfire conditions challenging in southern British Columbia. Fire information officer Erika Berg says heat and gusty winds are raising concern across the Kamloops and southern Cariboo regions. She says while fires are usually

China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar.... So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing. Even as President Trump was dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, he said that American help was on its way to Myanmar, where a 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through the country’s heavily populated center on Fri

ABUJA, Nigeria--Abubakar Salisu was terrified when he discovered arid sand in the middle of his farmland, rendering a broad strip unfit for crops.... But extreme weather and violence from both gangs and farmers and cattle herders clashing over resources have hindered those efforts.... Ukraine had announced a plan this year to send more wheat to the West African country at expected lower prices, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture....

The market view is that the coronavirus has hobbled President Donald Trump.... That emergency rate

that hobbled Japan’s economy in the 1990s. Latest official data show financial institutions issued

that hobbled Japan’s economy in the 1990s. Latest official data show financial institutions issued