World News Quick Take - Taipei Times
UNITED KINGDOM <strong>Army to fill in as drivers</strong> Military personnel in combat fatigues arrived yesterday at a BP refinery after the government ordered the army to help deliver fuel to help compensate for an acute shortage of truckers, a reporter said. Supply chains for everything from pork, gasoline and poultry to medicines and milk have been strained to the breaking point by labor shortages in the wake of Brexit and COVID-19. “As an extra precaution, we’ve put the extra drivers on,” Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak told LBC radio. AFGHANISTAN <strong>...