.language-selector { position:relative; display:inline-flex; align-items:center; gap:6px; padding:10px 5px; font-size:10px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:.04em; min-width:44px; }
.language-selector select { position:absolute; inset:0; width:100%; height:100%; opacity:0; cursor:pointer; }
.language-selector:focus-within { outline:2px solid #a9864b; outline-offset:3px; }
.language-selector:hover { color:#a17d4e; }
.header-actions { align-items:center; gap:7px; }
.desktop-nav { flex-wrap:wrap; row-gap:2px; }
.world-copy h3, .page-intro h1, .article-header h1, .category-hero h1 { overflow-wrap:anywhere; }
.story-meta { flex-wrap:wrap; }
.hero h1 { overflow-wrap:anywhere; }
.hero h1 em { white-space:normal; }

/* Logical direction overrides keep the original composition for LTR while
   allowing reviewed Arabic/Hebrew/etc. locale packs to select dir="rtl". */
[dir="rtl"] .hero-image { inset:0 20% 0 0; }
[dir="rtl"] .hero-veil { background:linear-gradient(270deg,#102c25 0%,#102c25f0 16%,#102c25ba 38%,#102c2529 67%,#102c2510 100%),linear-gradient(0deg,#0c231ae8 0%,transparent 28%); }
[dir="rtl"] .hero-content { margin-inline-end:auto; text-align:start; }
[dir="rtl"] .hero-secondary { margin-left:0; margin-right:27px; }
[dir="rtl"] .world-number { left:auto; right:25px; }
[dir="rtl"] .world-copy { left:43px; right:25px; }
[dir="rtl"] .round-arrow { right:auto; left:20px; }
[dir="rtl"] .card-save { right:auto; left:13px; }
[dir="rtl"] .seal { text-align:left; }
[dir="rtl"] .orbit-mark { right:auto; left:30px; }
[dir="rtl"] .inline-meta span+span { border-left:0; border-right:1px solid #c9c9ba; padding-left:0; padding-right:15px; }
[dir="rtl"] .article-byline span+span { border-left:0; border-right:1px solid var(--line); padding-left:0; padding-right:25px; }
[dir="rtl"] .article-body blockquote { padding-left:0; padding-right:28px; border-left:0; border-right:1px solid #bea272; }
[dir="rtl"] .demo-note { border-left:0; border-right:2px solid #bfa779; padding-left:0; padding-right:14px; }
[dir="rtl"] .search-result>span { margin-left:0; margin-right:auto; }
[dir="rtl"] .text-link>span, [dir="rtl"] .button>span, [dir="rtl"] .round-arrow, [dir="rtl"] .next-world>a>span, [dir="rtl"] .hero-secondary>span { transform:scaleX(-1); }
@media(max-width:1150px) { [dir="rtl"] .world-number {right:21px;} [dir="rtl"] .world-copy {right:21px;left:35px;} }
@media(max-width:700px) {
 .header-actions {gap:1px;}
 .language-selector {min-width:38px;font-size:9px;padding-inline:3px;gap:3px;}
 .site-header {gap:9px;}
 .footer-top {grid-template-columns:minmax(0,1fr) minmax(0,1fr);}
 .footer-top .brand {font-size:28px;}
 [dir="rtl"] .hero-image {inset:0;}
 [dir="rtl"] .hero-veil {background:linear-gradient(270deg,#102c25ea 0%,#102c2580 67%,#102c2555 100%),linear-gradient(0deg,#102c25fa 0%,transparent 45%);}
 [dir="rtl"] .hero-secondary {margin:22px 0 0;}
 [dir="rtl"] .world-number {right:15px;}
 [dir="rtl"] .world-copy {right:15px;left:12px;}
 [dir="rtl"] .round-arrow {left:12px;}
 [dir="rtl"] .world-copy p {padding-right:0;padding-left:7px;}
 [dir="rtl"] .article-byline span+span {padding-right:14px;}
 [dir="rtl"] .article-body blockquote {padding-right:20px;}
}
@media(max-width:370px) {
 .header-actions .icon-button {width:27px;}
 .site-header {padding-inline:16px;}
 .brand {font-size:30px;}
 .language-selector {min-width:35px;font-size:8px;}
}