yet face backlash over congestion charges and zoning reforms intended to unlock housing supply; international institutions seek to reassert relevance by brokering corridors for food and medicine, coordinating climate finance, and updating development banks’ risk appetite to crowd in private capital for grid upgrades, resilient transport, and digi

historically tight in pockets 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 pro

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 strain relatio

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