An audit found that cost-cutting during construction of a concrete barrier at Muan International Airport contributed directly to the severity of the crash that killed 179 people.
News & Analysis Physics & EngineeringMojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ali Khamenei, is now Iran's supreme leader, appointed mid-war, after a contested succession backed by the IRGC. Here is what his background reveals about what comes next.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil crossed $100 per barrel this week for the first time since 2022. The oil price shock from the Iran war is cascading through global supply chains, central bank calculations, and geopolitical alignments simultaneously.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOne week into the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, Europe insists it is not a party to the conflict. Alliance structures, energy exposure, and Iranian warnings suggest the distinction is harder to hold than it looks.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe IRGC was created to serve the revolution, not the nation. Four decades later, it has become a state within a state , economically powerful, ideologically entrenched, and the central target in the current military conflict.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisAustralia, Indonesia, France, and the UK are restricting teenagers' access to social media. The concern is real, but the laws face enforcement problems that no country has solved yet.
Digital Privacy News & AnalysisPakistan spent weeks warming up to Trump. Then the US-Israeli campaign against Iran began. Now Islamabad faces a dilemma it did not choose, with no clean option in sight.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisLebanon ordered Hezbollah to disarm after rockets broke a 15-month ceasefire with Israel, triggering airstrikes that killed at least 31 people. It is the government's most assertive move against the group in decades.
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