Ian Werther

The Middle East conflict, which began with airstrikes by the United States and Israel, reached the two-week mark as global oil prices closed above $100 per barrel for a second straight day. On May 13 local time, Brent crude for May delivery settled at $103.14 a barrel, up 2.

Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Goo Yoon-cheol visited Tokyo on the 13th to present a Korea economic investment briefing to about 100 global investors, hosted by Bloomberg’s Tokyo bureau. The event aimed to strengthen foreign investor confidence in Korea’s economy. At the briefing, Goo highlighted

Debris from a projectile suspected to be a drone struck the exterior wall of Dubai’s International Financial Centre (DIFC) in the city’s downtown area on the 13th of the month, local time. Dubai’s government information office said that after an interception, debris hit the building’s outer

Washington revealed new allegations about Iran’s leadership on Tuesday, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, speaking at a Pentagon briefing with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Cane, said he believed Mojtaba Khamenei, widely described as the newly emerging supreme leader, had likely been injured in an

WASHINGTON, D.C. — South Korea’s Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Thursday afternoon local time. The Prime Minister’s Office said Kim explained that the National Assembly’s passage of a Special Act on U.S. investment would

Seoul, South Korea — A prominent YouTuber and broadcaster, Kim Eo-jun, has become the focal point of a fierce political dispute after a guest on his channel raised a claim that a key aide to President Lee Jae-myung tried to trade the dismissal of a criminal case against the president with

South Korea began enforcing an "oil price ceiling" on fuel from midnight on the 13th, aiming to curb domestic price spikes driven by global tensions in the Middle East. The policy sets a maximum supply price that refiners can charge for gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, with the ceilings

China International Airlines will resume the Beijing–Pyongyang air route from the 30th, marking the first time air links between North Korea and China have reopened in more than six years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the skies. Earlier, North Korea and China restarted passenger train service, operating four

Hanwha Aerospace and Krafton announced on the 13th that they will pursue a joint venture to fuse physical AI technology with defense-industrial capabilities, accelerating joint research and development and moving toward commercialization. The plan also envisions expanding cooperation into space and aviation sectors over the long term. The collaboration blends

Hanwha Aerospace and Krafton have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to jointly develop “physical AI” technology for defense, with the goal of establishing a joint venture that would integrate AI capable of autonomous judgment into real-world hardware such as robots, drones and other defense platforms. The plan also envisions