OIL, SPIES & A GENOME FIRST: The World This Week [STB Global Insight]

[1] A sanctioned tanker leaks Russian crude off Oman, spreading an oil slick over 2,000 square kilometers and threatening an Exxon Valdez-scale disaster.

[2] As the Iran war drags on, experts warn U.S. forces pulled to the Middle East could leave a dangerous defense gap across Asia, including Korea and Japan.

[3] Samsung and SK Hynix's bonus boom exposes a new inequality, while an AI study flags some 24,000 foreign-linked accounts stoking division on Naver.

[4] Scientists fully decode both parents' chromosome sets for the first time, as Higgsfield open-sources an AI feature film and Google overtakes Naver in Korea.

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