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benefits of a reduced workweek”, introduce a minimum of 12 days’ reproductive health leave each year, and decriminalise the personal and recreational use of cannabis to free up police resources and reduce the “unnecessary criminalisation
gas industry, partly because of poor management, a consequent shortage of US dollars as that export fell, and rising inflation. That economic downturn ultimately led MAS to lose power amid disputes between Morales
benefits Iranians usually feel from subsidised energy prices. In November 2019, the government announced a tiered gasoline price scheme that would see huge increases for some consumers. This sparked [nationwide protests](/news/2019/12/17/vicious-crackdown-iran-protest-death-toll-at-304-amnesty-says), and since then
shortages and where many countries are highly dependent on food imports. Now, some high-level officials at development banks are [calling for](/opinions/2026/4/25/african-governments-need-to-take-urgent-action-on-fertiliser-shortages) urgent actions to secure more fertilisers for African countries in order
US and other non-Gulf-centred petroleum companies could not be more stark. On Tuesday, BP said its profits for the first quarter of the year [had more than doubled](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/28/bp-profits-oil-gas-prices-iran-war-first-quarter), after
shortage"](http://npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5785258/jet-fuel-airline-cost-iran-war-oil) if traffic through the Strait doesn't normalize by month's end. - ➡️ **Key questions remain unanswered** about the sustainability of the U.S.' blockade. [History suggests that naval blockades are difficult
shortages. We can’t just assume that people aren’t going to be asked to reduce their water use, while datacenters and energy won’t be.” Concerns over water use, as well as rising energy
gas processing facility was the country’s biggest polluting site in 2023-24. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images The climate change minister, **Chris Bowen**, said the data showed the safeguard was a “good policy, working well