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'Adapt to higher prices', UN official warns amid Hormuz standoff and threat of new war

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“Adapt to higher prices', UN official warns amid Hormuz standoff and threat of new war”

The Iran war and the stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz have upended life across the Middle East, forcing governments and people to adapt to a higher cost of living at a pace that would normally take decades, a UN official has warned. Abdullah Al Dardari, UN Assistant Secretary General and director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the UN Development Programme, told The National how the conflict had rapidly reshaped priorities across the region. He was speaking on the sidelines of the…

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