of mini-lateral deals on clean tech, critical minerals, and supply chain transparency, as customs agencies test blockchain-based certificates and traceability pilots to prove ethical sourcing; meanwhile, the cultural mood is defined by ambiguity: households feel squeezed by rents and food prices even as employment remains healthy in many sectors, a

like healthcare and skilled trades, while unions press for cost-of-living catch-up and AI guardrails in contracts; at the global level, markets weigh the timing and magnitude of rate cuts across major central banks, with inflation easing unevenly across goods, services, and shelter, and with oil prices sensitive to production decisions, geopolitics

with avoiding escalation, and maritime security planners remain focused on choke points where attacks on shipping reverberate into freight rates, insurance costs, and delivery times for consumer goods and energy cargoes; across North Africa and the Sahel, juntas, insurgencies, and cross-border trafficking complicate counterterrorism operations and

The United Nations has demanded justice following a double-tap bombing of Gaza’s Nasser Hospital that killed 20 people including five journalists, an action potentially constituting a war crime, while denials of legitimacy have met Israel’s claims of striking Hamas infrastructure amid mounting international condemnation and humanitarian alarm a