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And it's opening up possibilities for new maritime trade routes, drastically reducing travel time between Asia and Europe.

Already struggling with high inflation and a weak economy, Pakistan could face more pressure as it loses access to trade routes and crucial goods from India, such as raw materials and medicines.

"The North African community was quite mixed, and it was a trade route also for many people who were involved in trade in the earlier antiquity," she explained.

Children’s eyes glazed over at “The Phantom Menace’s” opening crawl: “The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.”

The attacks have sunk vessels and forced many shipping companies to stop using the Red Sea - a major global trade route through which almost 15% of seaborne trade passes.