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GPS spoofing is feeding pilots fake positions — and the panel stays green. How crews detect it, and why the airport stand sign can't save you.

A field guide to 50 Routemasters and their strange afterlives — tea rooms, circuses, a bus called The Potato Story.

Voter turnout is one reading from one instrument. What else tells us whether a democracy is actually engaged?

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

Satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding the Taleghan Two site at Parchin for the second time in 18 months — this time under a tarp.

What happens when a precise surveyed border cuts through a way of life built on movement? The Bedouin, Druze, and Maasai cases.

A third of East Jerusalem's residents hold residency, not citizenship. What the polling says about identity surprises almost everyone.

The Aqua Virgo still pours into the Trevi Fountain. The Cloaca Maxima still drains central Rome. What keeps ancient infrastructure alive?

How a border drawn with wax pencils in 1948 split Musrara's homes in two — and shaped the neighborhood that raised the Israeli Black Panthers.

What "peripheria" really means in Israel — and why a $10B Intel fab sits in a town that still tops unemployment.

A year of war and housing crisis erased his cockroach phobia. The science says that's not as strange as it sounds.

What border fences are actually built for — and why a steel barrier that took years to engineer was cut through in minutes.

The IAEA Board reported Iran to the Security Council for the first time in 20 years — over 440kg of uranium it can't locate.

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