finance, and updating development banks’ risk appetite to crowd in private capital for grid upgrades, resilient transport, and digital connectivity; trade ministers parse a patchwork of mini-lateral deals on clean tech, critical minerals, and supply chain transparency, as customs agencies test blockchain-based certificates and traceability pilots

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

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 relations with neighbors and external partners, as droughts and f

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