#economic-implications

#economic-implications

Since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, over a week ago, more than one thousand Iranians have reportedly been killed, and Iran has responded by attacking various Gulf states-such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates-which are allied with the U.S. Meanwhile, Israel has also been relentlessly bombing Lebanon, with the intention of disarming or wiping out Hezbollah, a paramilitary group backed by Iran which fired rockets at Israel earlier in the war.

"There has been an absolutely incredible drop in fertility - much faster than anyone had anticipated," says Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Kirstie Allsopp shared an image of an empty Tube carriage on a weekday morning, warning it can't be a good thing for work-from-home culture.

The latest move to restrict cannabis use comes amid wider political turmoil in Thailand. Last week the Bhumjaithai Party withdrew from the government's ruling coalition due to its mishandling of a border conflict with Cambodia.