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Can productivity handle the heat?

The heat wave that baked Europe, the US and China over the past week is putting life on hold and testing infrastructure.

Extreme heat is hurting the economy and workplace productivity. Rahul Tandon is joined by Rachel Kyte, dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts and she was an advisor to the UK Cop26 delegation.

In Pakistan, Prime Minister Shabbaz Sharif came to power in April . But the man who used to run the country, Imran Khan, has launched a national protest calling for fresh elections which could political instability lead to economic instability . Analyst and assistant professor of economics at Habib University, Aqdas Afzal, explains.

A judge in the US state of Delaware has ruled that the dispute between the tech billionaire Elon Musk and the social media company Twitter, should go to trial in October. Molly Roberts, editorial writer at the Washington Post, tells us more.

(Picture: A delivery man works in Barcelona on July 19, 2022. Spain, which has already seen its hottest May since the beginning of this century, remained on July 19 in the grip of an exceptional heatwave. Picture Credit: Getty Images).

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