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First Ground Search Yields No Traces; Missing Persons' Families to Hold Press Conference Today To find nine South Korean nationals missing in the massive floods in Nepal, the emergency relief team conducted its first-ever ground search near the accident site, but failed to find any traces. SBS Sep 9, 2026 6:23 AM

U.S. Military Strikes Oil Tanker Near Iran's Crude Export Hub of Kharg Island Central Command carried out airstrikes near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, Iran's crude oil export hub, resulting in an Iranian oil tanker being hit. SBS Sep 9, 2026 6:18 AM

Pressed for Midterms, Trump Appeals Voter Verification to Supreme Court Following Mail-In Ballot Restrictions The administration has filed emergency appeals with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn lower court rulings against both measures, a move widely seen as tied to expected struggles in the November midterm elections less than two months away. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:41 AM

Iranian Media Reports "Sequential Explosions" on Kharg Island The agency reported that "several explosions were heard in some parts of Kharg Island a few minutes ago." However, specific details regarding the cause of the explosions or the scale of the damage have not yet been mentioned. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:41 AM

Wall Street Falls as Middle East Tensions and Rising Oil Prices Weigh on Markets; Dow Drops 1.2% stock indices closed lower across the board on the 8th amid surging international oil prices and growing inflation concerns driven by escalating tensions in the Middle East. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:40 AM

Smithsonian Secretary, Target of Trump's Cultural War, Announces Resignation Lonnie Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which operates national museums and art galleries in Washington, D.C., announced his resignation on the 8th . SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:40 AM

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Vows Retaliation Against Oil Tankers Near Kuwait and Bahrain military attack on an Iranian oil tanker. According to Iran's state-run IRIB broadcaster, the IRGC Navy warned in an emergency statement that it would "take immediate action in response to the malicious acts of the U.S. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:39 AM

Houthis Bomb Saudi Oil Facilities; Brent Nears $100 On this day, the closing price for Brent crude futures for November delivery on London's ICE Futures Exchange rose by $0.92 from the previous session to $97.92 a barrel. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:23 AM

AI Passes 48-Stage 'Human Proof' Test, Neutralizing Robot Differentiation Sharif Shameem, a developer at OpenAI, announced on social media X on the 8th that after testing GPT-6 Astra on the Captcha game "I'm Not a Robot," the AI solved all 48 stages of the game and obtained a "human certificate." "I'm Not a Robot" consists of games such as guessing distorted alphabets, distinguishing between cookies and dogs in similar-looking photos, and identifying the locations of specific structures like traffic lights within images. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:19 AM

US Secretary of State Says "Iran's Hand is Clearly Behind" Saudi-Houthi Clashes In recent days, Saudi Arabia has launched massive airstrikes against Houthi strongholds across Yemen to protect its control over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the entrance of the Red Sea, an alternative oil export route to the Strait of Hormuz. SBS Sep 9, 2026 5:04 AM