Negotiators worked through two nights on market access and left without a text. The sticking point, according to three delegations, is a dispute-settlement provision that neither side can concede without a domestic fight.
Two data cables were cut within nine hours of each other. Investigators have a vessel track, a drag mark on the seabed and no jurisdiction that clearly reaches the ship.
Aid agencies say 4.1 million people face crisis-level food insecurity in the region this season, and that the shortfall is less about food availability than about the roads it cannot travel.
Insurers have reclassified a stretch of water used by roughly a tenth of container traffic. Carriers are paying the premium rather than rerouting, because the alternative costs more.
The high-risk obligations that were due to apply next spring move to 2028. Transparency requirements, including labeling synthetic media, take effect on schedule.
Thirty years of measurements from one of the longest-running Arctic monitoring sites will continue two kilometres away, on bedrock. Relocating it means a gap in a record that has no substitute.
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