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Global Disinformation: From Southeast Asia to Latin America, the Systemic Approaches That Work
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France's Social Debt, 1974–2024 by Nicolas Dufourcq
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$741 Billion in Net Outflows: The Debt Crisis in Developing Countries
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40% of the World's 7,000 Languages Are Threatened: Oceania and Central America on the Front Line
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Microsoft Launches Empower+ to Train Young Africans in AI: 21 Countries, Focus on Women
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South Korea Restarts 6 Nuclear Reactors and Accelerates Renewables Amidst Middle East Tensions
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**AI as the Engine of Global Trade: One-Third of Growth in 2025**
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Freedom House 2026: 20 Years of Declining Freedoms — and the Counter-Trends That Resist
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Heat and Sedentary Lifestyle: 520,000 Preventable Deaths per Year by 2050
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American Democracy Reaches 50-Year Low
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Digitalization and Productivity: Central and Eastern Europe Facing Under-Exploited Potential
After two decades of notable economic convergence with the European Union, several Central and Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania, designated as the