Gulf Time / London While 2022 started with Covid-19 raging in some parts of the world, new problems have emerged that again challenge retail buyers of consumer-packaged goods. Supply chain issues were the focus of the second quarter, along with the emergence of inflationary pressures. Health and healthier food categories sit beside convenience foods on the most searched lists ...

Bloomberg China fired its largest missile tests in Taiwan’s waters in decades, the day after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied Beijing by visiting the self-ruled island it claims as its own. The People’s Liberation Army fired 11 Dongfeng ballistic missiles into waters north, east and south of Taiwan between 13:56 p.m. and 16:00 p.m. local time Thursday, the island’s ...

Bloomberg Top Taliban officials didn’t know al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in Afghanistan, a spokesman said, and an investigation is underway to check the veracity of US claims he was killed in an American airstrike in the capital Kabul over the weekend. “The government and the leadership wasn’t aware of what is being claimed,” Suhail Shaheen, the head of ...