soaring costs of breakthrough therapies, and public demand for mental health services, WHO calls for pandemic preparedness and equitable vaccine distribution but faces skepticism about governance, while new outbreaks of preventable diseases remind governments that surveillance gaps persist; culture and sport mirror politics as global tournaments ar

expands trilateral security with the U.S. and Japan but grapples with labor strikes and demographic decline, North Korea fires missiles and tests new capabilities while tightening bonds with Russia in exchange for energy and food aid, India seeks to consolidate its image as a voice of the Global South by hosting summits and pushing digital infrastr

sector crisis, slowing GDP, and youth unemployment, Washington doubles down on alliance building through AUKUS, Quad, and new security initiatives with Manila and Tokyo, Southeast Asia remains trapped in hedging strategies balancing economic interdependence with China and security dependence on the United States, Taiwan faces relentless cyber intru