On a seemingly ordinary Wednesday, a flydubai passenger jet crossing the Arabian Peninsula became the center of an international storm when its cockpit sent out emergency signals and the aircraft plunged more than 17,000 feet in what appeared to be a terrifying midair crisis. The flight, FZ1073, had been en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv, carrying 174 passengers, including 27 children, before it made a sharp, urgent descent and diverted to Prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz Airport in Saudi Arabia’s Tabuk city. In the hours that followed, a deeply polarized battle over the truth erupted. Iranian state media launched…

Imagine moving just a few streets away from your old home, yet finding yourself erased from the electoral roll as if you no longer exist in the eyes of democracy. That is the unsettling situation faced by a family of six from the Santa Cruz constituency in Goa. They had shifted their residence within the same constituency, not to another city or state, but simply to a different home in the same area. When the Election Commission of India’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls began, enumerators went door-to-door with forms that had already been filled in with the family’s…