cities innovate with 15-minute neighborhood pilots, micromobility rules, and heat-resilient urban canopy plans, 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… Read More

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, and hurricane season; currency tra… Read More

partners, as droughts and floods whipsaw harvests and intensify food insecurity, prompting lenders and donors to juggle fiscal realism with social protection; in the Horn of Africa, talks over contested regions and resource access are fragile, with refugee flows stressing urban services while climate extremes swing from deluge to failed rains, chal… Read More

and expanded access for humanitarian aid after ten more Palestinians, including two children, died from hunger in the past 24 hours, bringing the total famine-related death toll to 313, with 119 children, amid continued Israeli military operations around Gaza City and mass displacement deemed by aid groups to violate international law. In the West … Read More