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Three separate outlook folders sit beside an AI gauge, a globe with trade props, and a split economy scale; their footnotes enter a case holding a plaque marked “HIGH” over “UNCERTAIN.”

Culture17 AUG · 10:12

Reuters, AP and The Economist Outlooks Receive a “HIGH: UNCERTAIN” Verdict

A year-end desk has combined separate 2026 outlooks from Reuters Institute, The Economist and AP in one matrix, forcing each publication’s open questions toward December.

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A treaty page sits in a glass display case marked as an endangered language while interpreters argue around an empty chair.

World17 AUG · 08:42

UN Places International Law on Endangered-Languages List

The designation gives treaties a speaker count and sends interpreters looking for the last person who still uses them.

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Absurd17 AUG · 11:02

Tamil Nadu’s Tenth Heat Tip Is to Return the Sun by 6 P.M.

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