Young workers are especially vulnerable. Even before the war, the World Bank had warned of mounting unemployment among the region's youth.

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U.S. thinking is only catching up with that of China, which has long considered technology essential to the country's sovereignty and survival.

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Tokyo's move toward defense spending of 2% of GDP is not militarism. It is overdue burden-sharing within an alliance that is the foundation of regional deterrence.

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It was the seventh consecutive year in which the trees flowered earlier than their 20-year average.

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The distance between constitutional language and security practice is not a mistake that needs correcting.

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Ukraine. By the time of his rejection by the electorate, he was widely regarded as Putin's top ally in Europe and a Trojan horse inside the alliance.

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Because of Russia weakness, the Kremlin is focused not on domination, but on disruption.

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Now, instead of always reinvesting profits, South Korean firms are delivering more short-term value to shareholders — a change that could help keep capital in the country.

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Takaichi argues the solution is investment — with Aida proposing a "high-pressure economy" where demand outstrips supply and the government breaks the deadlock.

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The old narrative that fossil fuels are stable and reliable has been proved wrong.

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Successful replication of findings doesn't necessarily mean those findings are right and failure to replicate doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong.

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NASA is betting on SpaceX and Blue Origin to build lunar landers for the Artemis III mission next year, paving the way for the first mission back to the moon since 1972.

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