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Dozens of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy figures are one step closer to learning their fate in the city’s largest national security case to date, as prosecutors and lawyers returned to court Wednesday to make closing speeches almost three years since the mass arrests.

‘Girl Math,’ the latest trend to take TikTok by storm, is basically a clever way to describe the “creative” logic women apply to justify and explain their purchases, especially big-ticket items. Recently, a New Zealand-based radio show Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley thrust the concept into the spotlight with a new segment dedicated entirely to the phenomenon. A recent installment—which garnered over 6 million views on TikTok—applied Girl Math to a listene...

The country’s citizens resisted joining NATO for decades, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed minds quickly.