German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivers a speech during the opening session of the 19th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business in Seoul on October 30, 2026. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images)

This view shows the Central Bank headquarters in Buenos Aires on October 29, 2026. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP via Getty Images)

Vehicles and motorcycles are parked on long queues in anticipation of refueling at Petroda filling station in Area 47, Lilongwe, October 22, 2026. In Malawi petrol costs $3.24 a litre, the highest in Africa and the second-highest globally, at more than twice the global average, according to GlobalPetrolPrices, an energy-price data provider tracking retail fuel prices in more than 100 countries. (Photo by Amos GUMULIRA / AFP via Getty Images)

A motorcycle taxi rider buys from a street food vendor while queueing for fuel at Petroda filling station in Area 47, Lilongwe, October 22, 2026. In Malawi petrol costs $3.24 a litre, the highest in Africa and the second-highest globally, at more than twice the global average, according to GlobalPetrolPrices, an energy-price data provider tracking retail fuel prices in more than 100 countries. (Photo by Amos GUMULIRA / AFP via Getty Images)

A motorcycle taxi rider leavs after queueing in vain for fuel at Petroda filling station in Area 47, Lilongwe, October 22, 2026. In Malawi petrol costs $3.24 a litre, the highest in Africa and the second-highest globally, at more than twice the global average, according to GlobalPetrolPrices, an energy-price data provider tracking retail fuel prices in more than 100 countries. (Photo by Amos GUMULIRA / AFP via Getty Images)

A motorcyclist and his customer ride past vehicles queueing for fuel at Best Oil filling station in Area 49, Lilongwe on October 22, 2026. In Malawi petrol costs $3.24 a litre, the highest in Africa and the second-highest globally, at more than twice the global average, according to GlobalPetrolPrices, an energy-price data provider tracking retail fuel prices in more than 100 countries. (Photo by Amos GUMULIRA / AFP via Getty Images)

Fuel attendants take a break due to the fuel shortage at Best Oil filling station in Area 49 Lilongwe, October 22, 2026. In Malawi petrol costs $3.24 a litre, the highest in Africa and the second-highest globally, at more than twice the global average, according to GlobalPetrolPrices, an energy-price data provider tracking retail fuel prices in more than 100 countries. (Photo by Amos GUMULIRA / AFP via Getty Images)

A nurse checks on a one-year-old child during consultation at the Fredonia family in Fredonia, Kansas, on October 19, 2026. In the home stretch of midterm elections, the issues of access to and high costs of US health care are cited by many voters as chief worries, especially in the American heartland. Ninety miles (140 km). That is how far residents of Fredonia, a small town in the central US state of Kansas, must travel for cardiology care in the event of a heart attack or stroke. The crisis could get even more dire if the local hospital -- which provides initial care and coordinates evacuations by ambulance or helicopter -- were to shutter due to bankruptcy, as is happening to more and more medical facilities across the country. "It's definitely a concern," Fredonia Regional Hospital's CEO Johnathan Durrett told AFP, noting that his 25-bed facility, like so many others in today's economy, has to "fight to remain open." (Photo by Zina DESMAZES / AFP via Getty Images)