households feel squeezed by rents and food prices even as employment remains healthy in many sectors, and optimism about medical and technological breakthroughs coexists with fatigue from polarization and information overload; newsrooms themselves confront sustainability questions, experimenting with membership models, regional consortia, and AI-as

traders track divergent growth outlooks and current account dynamics, while emerging markets gauge the window for refinancing sovereign and corporate debt before volatility returns; technology regulation advances on parallel tracks: privacy and competition rules tighten around app stores, adtech, and digital ID, AI safety frameworks move from volun

and resource access are fragile, with refugee flows stressing urban services while climate extremes swing from deluge to failed rains, challenging early-warning systems and climate adaptation plans; in East Africa’s growth hubs, investment in fintech, logistics, and mobile money continues even as currency volatility and high borrowing costs test

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