Pakistan

The US parks B61 bombs in six allied countries — but never hands over the keys. How nuclear sharing is engineered to not require trust.

Three credible sources, three different numbers — and the gap isn't new explosions. It's what each one decided to count.

Cheap power tools changed construction — and quietly introduced a disease that damages nerves and blood vessels in the hands. Here's what HAVS actu...

Five real long-haul bus routes ranked by misery — breakdowns, borders, and no toilets — with extra weight for arriving somewhere ordinary.

Nine states. Two thousand detonations. Why a nuclear test is often a sentence in a conversation, not a lab result.

A retired consultant in Wales represents Kiribati from his house. Can you engineer that on purpose? The playbook, the vetoes, and the plaque.

The nuclear football, the duty clerk, the biscuit in the dry cleaning — how leaders stay reachable 24/7, and what that means for October 7th.

One line from Treasury can ground an airline worldwide. The reason lives in New York's clearing houses, not the currency itself.

Rockets get the coverage, but the real work happens at consoles on the ground. What 15,000 Guardians actually do.

Penicillin in Bangkok, paracetamol in London, Adderall at customs. What actually goes in the note on your phone?

What pan-Arabism actually claims, why it isn't the umma, and why 22 members can't stop sanctioning each other.

2.9 million work-related deaths a year — and 2.58 million of them are disease, not injuries. What workers still don't know about the air they breathe.

Tunisian olive oil with French labels, Iranian rugs in Jerusalem shops — how goods actually move around sanctions and enemy-state bans.

Egypt ruled Gaza for 19 years without annexing it. Israel applied full law to East Jerusalem in 1967. Two occupied places, two very different legal...

Egypt declared terrorism over in North Sinai in 2023. The NSC still rates the peninsula level four. What's actually left?