This text is an on-site model of our FirstFT publication. Subscribers can signal as much as our Asia<\/a>, Europe\/Africa<\/a> or Americas<\/a> version to get the publication delivered each weekday morning. Discover all of our newsletters here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Good morning. Right now I\u2019ll be overlaying:<\/p>\n South Korea\u2019s airplane crash<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The demise of former US president Jimmy Carter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Detentions of Chinese language executives <\/p>\n<\/li>\n The preferred tales of the yr <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n 100 and seventy-nine individuals have been killed yesterday morning as a South Korean passenger jet crashed and burst into flames on touchdown, in response to native authorities. The accident was one of many nation\u2019s worst aviation disasters. <\/p>\n The Jeju Air flight was coming back from Bangkok with 181 individuals on board when it didn’t deploy its touchdown gear. It skid down the runway earlier than it struck a wall and was engulfed in fireplace at Muan worldwide airport within the nation\u2019s south.<\/p>\n Two crew members have been rescued from the plane\u2019s tail, in response to the nationwide fireplace company, however all the opposite individuals on the flight have been later confirmed to have been killed, officers instructed South Korea\u2019s Yonhap information company. <\/p>\n South Korea\u2019s appearing president Choi Sang-mok \u2014 who assumed workplace on Friday after his predecessor was impeached by parliament<\/a> \u2014 vowed to \u201cdig into the trigger [and] and take steps to stop any recurrence of comparable accidents\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is a grave state of affairs. We’ll do our utmost to deal with the injury,\u201d he stated. The crash was the worst commercial aviation disaster since 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n Right here\u2019s what else I\u2019m preserving tabs on at present: <\/p>\n Day of mourning: <\/strong>South Korea will start its second of seven days of nationwide mourning for victims of the Jeju Air crash. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n \u2018Black moon\u2019 phenomenon: <\/strong>The night time sky will probably be primed for ultimate stargazing circumstances tonight amid the uncommon incidence of a second new moon in a single calendar month.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n 1.<\/strong> Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth US president who later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has died<\/strong>, the Carter Middle stated on Sunday. Carter was the longest-living former president in US historical past, having celebrated his one centesimal birthday on October 1. Read more about his life and legacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> Azerbaijan\u2019s President Ilham Aliyev known as on Russia to \u201cadmit its guilt\u201d within the passenger airplane crash on Christmas Day, <\/strong>and demanded Moscow compensate the families of the 38 people killed<\/a>. President Vladimir Putin admitted that Russian air defences have been working in the identical space that the Azerbaijan Airways Embraer 190 airplane was flying, however apologised just for the truth that the incident occurred \u201cin Russian airspace\u201d.<\/p>\n 3. Asia-Pacific infrastructure ought to drive extra offers in 2025<\/strong> regardless of financial challenges for the area, Macquarie stated<\/strong> after the Australian asset supervisor wrapped up a A$24bn (US$15bn) information centre sale earlier this month. The FT\u2019s Nic Fildes studies on what the co-head of Macquarie\u2019s infrastructure division in Asia-Pacific is expecting<\/a> for 2025. <\/p>\n 4. Syria\u2019s de facto chief, Ahmed al-Sharaa,<\/strong> stated it may take as much as 4 years for the nation to carry its first elections<\/strong> after the autumn of former President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime. Here\u2019s what we know about a possible timeline<\/a> for key phases of the nation\u2019s political transition. <\/p>\n 5.<\/strong> An Israeli navy raid has put the final main well being facility in northern Gaza out of service<\/strong>, exacerbating a deepening humanitarian disaster within the enclave, in response to the UN\u2019s well being company. The attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital<\/a> got here as Israel stepped up an offensive within the space. <\/p>\n Enterprise executives at greater than 80 China-listed firms have been detained by native authorities in 2024, in response to an FT evaluation. Among the detentions appeared to have little or no authorized foundation. Now, Beijing is making an attempt to curb the \u201cshakedowns\u201d that are fuelling anxiety<\/a> amongst entrepreneurs and threat curbing financial progress.<\/p>\n Final yr there have been dozens of dire warnings about generative synthetic intelligence\u2019s influence on 2024\u2019s bumper crop of world elections. Specialists now consider there’s little evidence that AI disinformation was as widespread<\/a> or impactful as was feared.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to focus on what readers clicked on most throughout FT.com this yr. The US presidential election result page<\/strong><\/a> landed within the prime spot. You may nonetheless use our map to discover which states flipped from blue to purple, and the way outcomes in comparison with 2020. <\/p>\n And out of doors the political realm, Claer Barrett\u2019s piece on how to protect your financial data as phone theft surges<\/strong><\/a> was the preferred. 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