Two street vendors chat in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, July 24, 2023. In just a week, Russia has fired more than 125 missiles and drones at the Odesa region, hitting the historic city center that had been largely spared since the beginning of the war. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





A man sells baguettes in Niamey, Niger, Friday, August 11, 2023. The ECOWAS bloc said it had directed a “standby force” to restore constitutional order in Niger after its deadline to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum expired. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





People throng a market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in the old quarters of New Delhi on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





A vendor selling old cameras and accessories sits in his booth at a flea market in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, July 8, 2023. The Pochaina neighborhood in the Ukrainian capital comes alive every weekend as hundreds of people flock to its famous flea market, looking for finds. Antique-hunters, collectors and many others look over seemingly endless rows of trinkets and time-worn wares. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





A fish monger waits for customers at the Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 7, 2023. South Korea's government on Friday formally endorsed the safety of Japanese plans to release treated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into sea as it tried to calm people's fears about food contamination. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





Workers arrange non-Japanese fish at the Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market, where some wholesalers stopped selling Japanese fishery products following news from Japan on its plan to discharge treated radioactive wastewater into the sea in Hong Kong, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (Photo by Louise Delmotte/AP Photo)





Baba Karim with his wheelbarrow stands next to a shop in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 3, 2023. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)





Shopkeeper waits for customers in Damascus, Syria, on December 15, 2022. Syria’s president early Wednesday Aug. 16, 2023 doubled public servant and retirees wages and pensions as the war-torn country’s national currency spiraled further downwards, reaching a new low for the year. (Photo by Omar Sanadiki/AP Photo)





A vendor eats watermelon at a market in Kano, Nigeria, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has announced his government's plan to pay $10 monthly to poor households to ease the growing hardship caused by the scrapping of subsidies that had reduced the cost of gasoline. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





Soviet-era gas masks are for sale at a flea market in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, July 8, 2023. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





A man sells grain in Dawanau International Market in Kano Nigeria, Friday, July 14, 2023. Nigeria introduced programs before and during Russia's war in Ukraine to make Africa's largest economy self-reliant in wheat production. But climate fallout and insecurity in the northern part of the country where grains are largely grown has hindered the effort. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)





An official waits for the opening of the Gouda cheese market in Gouda, Netherlands, Thursday, August 17, 2023. The cheese market takes place very Thursday and has a 900-year-old tradition. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





People buy rice and other items at a market, in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Pakistan’s finance minister on Thursday said the International Monetary Fund deposited a much-awaited first installment of $1.2 billion with the country’s central bank under a recently signed bailout aimed at enabling the impoverished Islamic nation to avoid defaulting on its debt repayments. (Phoot by Fareed Khan/AP Photo)





A street merchant waits for customers in Niamey, Niger, Monday, August 14, 2023. Niger's mutinous soldiers say they will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and undermining state security. (Photo by Sam Mednick/AP Photo)





Vendors sell acai berries at the Ver-o-Peso market, ahead of the summit of Amazon rainforest nations in Belem, Para state, Brazil on August 7, 2023. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)