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Culture30 Jun
Vikander and Taylor-Johnson Pair Up: What Netflix's 'Enigma Variations' Bet Really Signals
Culture30 Jun
Welcome to the Jungle, a Rs 125-crore gamble: how budget inflation became Bollywood's new normal
Culture30 Jun
Venice Biennale's Record African Turn Tests a Century of Eurocentric Curation
Culture30 Jun
Ukrainian kindergarten director pleads for safe return of five-year-old taken from classroom as custody dispute turns violent
Culture30 Jun
London Signals It Will Block Paramount's $110 Billion Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Culture30 Jun
Thirty years on, Trainspotting returns to Edinburgh — and asks whether the film still belongs to anyone
Culture30 Jun
Tidal's AI-label rule draws a line, but the royalty question is still open
Culture30 Jun
Texas tattoo artist faces 30 years for moving a box of zines: how a protest turned into a federal case
Culture30 Jun
Television Academy Hall of Fame Inducts Smart, Danson, Sarandos and the 'South Park' Architects
Culture30 Jun
Tehran readies a farewell: Iran's state machinery mobilises for a 14 July funeral
Culture30 Jun
Swift as lyricist of doubt: reading the love songs against the wedding
Culture30 Jun
An 85-foot Messi statue in Patagonia and the long global tail of internet mockery
Culture30 Jun
From card game to tool of divination: tracing the unlikely artistic history of tarot
Culture30 Jun
The Court's Two Economies: Book Royalties, Teaching Salaries, and the Quiet Politics of Judicial Disclosure
Culture30 Jun
Mario's Last Lap: What 'Super Mario Galaxy Movie' Tells Us About Franchise Strategy in 2026
Culture30 Jun
Supergirl's $100 million write-down and the cost of DC's tonal confusion
Culture30 Jun
Supergirl lands in a superhero market already crowded by Superman
Culture30 Jun
A king, a president and the moment Britain chose to fight: Richard Nelson's 'Springwood' at Hampstead
Culture30 Jun
Starz bets on horror IP as streaming’s mid-tier squeeze forces premium brands to mine graphic novels, comics, and cult followings
Culture30 Jun
Bruce Springsteen takes the long road to PBS, and the network's quiet bet on legacy talent
Culture30 Jun
Forty Years Behind the Lens: Shaun Botterill and the World Cup's Quietest Witness
Culture30 Jun
Aida Garifullina and Denis Matsuev top Russian-language classical music's June traffic charts — and what that says about cultural gravity
Culture30 Jun
Sam Altman Is Getting the Biopic Treatment. The Question Is Who Gets to Tell It.
Culture30 Jun
Rubén Blades at 77: the salsa lawyer who outlasted every regime
Culture30 Jun
Nicolas Winding Refn returns with 'Her Private Hell,' a Neon reunion starring Sophie Thatcher
Culture30 Jun
‘Ramayana’ Tops IMDb’s Most-Anticipated Indian List Again — and the Numbers Hint at a Bigger Bet by Global Streamers
Culture30 Jun
Quiver's 'Mustache' and the Indie Coming-of-Age Film That Won't Grow Up
Culture30 Jun
Rajamouli Pivots to Animated Mythology as Indian Epic Cinema Seeks a New Center of Gravity
Culture30 Jun
When a small town got a star: the Pune rescue, a passport counter, and the slower industry behind South Indian cinema's working class
Culture30 Jun
Penelope Keith and the architecture of British comic snobbery
Culture30 Jun
Two decades on, del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth' gets an anniversary re-release — and a question about what it still means
Culture30 Jun
Opera Holland Park at 30: A West London summer institution still defying gravity
Culture30 Jun
Martha Coolidge's 1976 re-enactment still lands — and still unsettles
Culture30 Jun
Street cameras and shrinking floors: how the New York art world is reacting to its own political weather
Culture30 Jun
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Goes All-IMAX: What a Four-Minute Featurette Tells Us About the Limits of Format
Culture30 Jun
Reed Timmer's new documentary turns the storm-chase genre back on itself
Culture30 Jun
Netflix and Harlan Coben's mystery-thriller playbook is rewriting how streaming buys prestige
Culture30 Jun
Netflix renews crime drama ‘Nemesis’ as the streamer doubles down on the procedural
Culture30 Jun
Netflix bets on Persona: what a live-action Atlus adaptation signals about gaming-to-screen economics
Culture30 Jun
Netflix's 'Unhinged' turns horror into an interactive product — and tells us something about where streaming is headed
Culture30 Jun
Netflix's Wonka AI gamble: ElevenLabs deal revives Gene Wilder's voice — and reopens a Hollywood consent question
Culture30 Jun
Musk's X download stunt turns a German anti-migrant thriller into a culture-war flashpoint
Culture30 Jun
Despicable 4's little yellow creatures can't escape their own diminishing returns
Culture30 Jun
A 1926 silent film, a Polynesian odyssey, and the long shadow it cast on Disney's Moana
Culture30 Jun
Michael Byrne, character actor in 'Braveheart,' 'Harry Potter' and the Indiana Jones line, dies at 82
Culture30 Jun
Amazon MGM leans into the algorithm: 'The Love Hypothesis' teaser courts BookTok's romance economy
Culture30 Jun
Mayim Bialik says she felt 'afraid' after a 'Zionism is racism' T-shirt encounter — and the argument it kicks off
Culture30 Jun
Lucio Castro's 'Drunken Noodles' serves a queer time-loop and a filmmaker's reckoning with grief
Culture30 Jun
Markiplier's Matchmaker Pitch: Why the Creator Economy Is Now Fighting Over Audience Stickiness
Culture30 Jun
A nine-minute space western and the strange economics of the animated short
Culture30 Jun
Lorde Opens the Vault: 49 Virgin Demos Land on a Site Most Fans Haven't Heard Of
Culture30 Jun
Louis C.K.'s Netflix return tests where the industry's red line now sits
Culture30 Jun
Louis CK's Netflix return lands with a thud — and that is the review
Culture30 Jun
Beirut's reckoning with the 'Washington agreement': a Lebanese critique of the November ceasefire framework
Culture30 Jun
Beta Film boards 'La Vida Barcelona,' a romantic dramedy aimed at the global female-skewing audience
Culture30 Jun
'The Lady Grace Mysteries' returns: what a teen-spy period drama tells us about the cost of prestige streaming
Culture30 Jun
Kieu Chinh Returns to Vietnam With ‘Chrysalis,’ and the Country She Left Finally Gets to See Her
Culture30 Jun
Iraq's children carry Iran's martyred leader — and the diplomatic architecture the procession leaves behind
Culture30 Jun
Iran releases archival film of Khamenei at Imam Reza shrine, framing it as a documented devotional milestone
Culture30 Jun
Tehran's Strait of Hormuz frame strains against geography and the weight of Oman's coast
Culture30 Jun
Glass on the marble: a Reuters tour of Iran's bombed cultural sites
Culture30 Jun
Construction work and a silenced call to prayer: what is happening at the Ibrahimi Mosque
Culture30 Jun
Eli Roth takes 'Ice Cream Man' trailer international, doubling down on festival-tested horror
Culture30 Jun
Illumination reaches for cosmic stakes with 'Not Alone,' a Chalamet–Gomez voice vehicle for the family-film algorithm
Culture30 Jun
Hershey biopic hands a Pennsylvania chocolate dynasty back to Angel Studios
Culture30 Jun
HappyNest bets on R.L. Stine and space camp IP as kids' YouTube consolidates around legacy brands
Culture30 Jun
Gwangju Biennale 2028 Drops the Curated Star Curator for an Open Call — and Asks Whether the Model Still Works
Culture30 Jun
Guggenheim Workers Near Strike as Layoff Aftermath Hardens Contract Talks
Culture30 Jun
Guggenheim Workers Move Toward Strike as Contract Talks Stall
Culture30 Jun
Ghetto Film School bets on audio as the next literacy, and partners with Mosh to teach it
Culture30 Jun
Grace Games lands CAA representation as interactive storytelling quietly re-aggregates
Culture30 Jun
Peter Benedict's Executioner review: a stagey, low-budget British political thriller with bite
Culture30 Jun
Enola Holmes grows up: how Philip Barantini turned a YA sleuth into a Victorian-era coming-of-age
Culture30 Jun
Ed van der Elsken, organised chaos, and the case for colour as craft
Culture30 Jun
Ed van der Elsken's disorderly eye: a retrospective reframes the Dutch master of 'organised chaos'
Culture30 Jun
Robert Eggers goes medieval: Werwulf trailer lands, and the highbrow horror auteur is no longer a niche taste
Culture30 Jun
A Town Without a Theater Gets One: Northwoods Bets on Emagine Parker
Culture30 Jun
Dinosaur Jr. return with first album in five years, plot a North American fall run
Culture30 Jun
Night City, again: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 and the long tail of a transmedia bet
Culture30 Jun
In the dragon's scales: reading power and legitimacy through Chinese imperial iconography
Culture30 Jun
Chyrum Lambert's Paper Cutouts: A Quiet Expansion of What a Painting Can Be
Culture30 Jun
Cardiff's National Museum faces a centenary-year reckoning over the state of its fabric
Culture30 Jun
A 17th-century painting upends a zoology textbook: how Jan Brueghel the Elder recorded bat predation 400 years early
Culture30 Jun
A Half-Century on the Block: Inside the California African American Museum at 50
Culture30 Jun
Carty-Williams returns to Queenie — and the sequel has bigger things on its mind
Culture30 Jun
The $8 Million Question: Blake Lively's Fee Bid Reshapes the It-Ends-With-Us Defamation Fight
Culture30 Jun
Sophy Romvari's 'Blue Heron' Gets Criterion Streaming Date: A Quiet Endorsement for Slow Cinema
Culture30 Jun
Inside the cutting room: how Netflix's 'Beef' editors shape a tonal thriller from tonal chaos
Culture30 Jun
Ashe signs to Atlantic as Virgin restructures post-Downtown — a quiet week that says a lot about label math
Culture30 Jun
Colin Farrell, Steve Coogan and Domhnall Gleeson join Netflix's 'Bad Bridgets' as filming gears up in Northern Ireland
Culture30 Jun
Araghchi walks the Dana exhibition in a week of naval signalling
Culture30 Jun
Amnesty International calls on Kampala to release shuttered outlets, halt activist harassment
Culture30 Jun
Josh O'Connor Takes the Lead in Almeida's 'Golden Boy' — and a London Stage Reckons with an American Classic
Culture30 Jun
A24 Re-Releases 'Backrooms' With 15 Minutes of Bonus Footage — A Quiet Vote of Confidence in the Theatrical horror
Culture30 Jun
Academy Museum bulks up its board with del Toro, Gore and Hurd as it eyes a second decade
Culture29 Jun
Twenty-Five Years of Camp Fireplace: Why 'Wet Hot American Summer' Still Resonates
Culture29 Jun
From Caracas to the Seine: Why a Single Morning of Art-World Headlines Is Really About Geography
Culture29 Jun
Walton Goggins, the quiet utility player, finally has a story only he could tell
Culture29 Jun
Vanilla Ice's Freedom 250 Concert Cancelled for Rain That Never Came
Culture29 Jun
Variety's Southern California sweep signals a trade press consolidating its home turf
Culture29 Jun
Britain's film censor reaches for AI, and shows where classification is heading
Culture29 Jun
United Youth Telegram channel floods feeds with white-pride training clips
Culture29 Jun
Tver's Lemeshev competition returns: a quiet test bed for Russia's vocal pipeline
Culture29 Jun
When the President tees off: Trump, the public golf course, and the architecture of patronage
Culture29 Jun
Tidal moves to label AI-made music and pull royalties — a small step in a much larger fight
Culture29 Jun
'Toy Story 5' Holds South Korea's Box Office Crown as 'The Eyes' Takes Silver
Culture29 Jun
The cynic at Wembley: what a Harry Styles concert reveals about the limits of cultural disdain
Culture29 Jun
Swiss Institute finds a permanent address on the Bowery
Culture29 Jun
Tamil Nadu's 'Spectrum' and the uneven economics of South Indian cinema
Culture29 Jun
Stephen Poliakoff Returns to the Big Screen at Home with 'The Order,' a Cold War-Era Political Thriller
Culture29 Jun
A Spider That Hunts Ants by Mimicking Their Pheromones: What a Caribbean Discovery Tells Us About Behavioural Mimicry
Culture29 Jun
Sidelnikov's 'Labyrinths' resurfaces in Moscow: a Soviet symphony of myth that outlasted its censors
Culture29 Jun
Sam Worthington goes after his own ‘damsel in distress’ moment — and wins
Culture29 Jun
Russia's Children's Talent Circuit Draws Scrutiny as Singer Says Commercial Competitions Are Blurring the Criteria
Culture29 Jun
Raveheart review: Graeme Armstrong turns the Scottish rave into a political weapon
Culture29 Jun
When the numbers don't add up: a high-profile cancer study collapses, and the field is left to ask what comes next
Culture29 Jun
Rushdie's London return: a cultural honor that doubles as a verdict on literary survival
Culture29 Jun
Palm Springs Shortfest 2026: Five Films, $30,000, and a Window onto Short Form's Prize Economy
Culture29 Jun
Dame Penelope Keith, face of a gentler British comedy, dies at 86
Culture29 Jun
The unfinished film Orson Welles could not kill
Culture29 Jun
Noah Kahan and the Bathroom Question: A Small Story About Fandom and Predictive Markets
Culture29 Jun
Olivia Wilde's 38% film score was the catalyst. 'The Invite' is the reply.
Culture29 Jun
Netflix at 52-week lows: subscriber growth is not enough anymore
Culture29 Jun
Nader Saeivar’s ‘Hijamat’ Lands at Karlovy Vary as a Quiet Dispatch From Iran’s Young, Secular Turn
Culture29 Jun
Montpellier Danse 2026 pushes the body past its limits, and past the audience's
Culture29 Jun
‘Michael’ passes ‘Oppenheimer’ at the box office — and that is a story about who biopics are for
Culture29 Jun
Mel Brooks at 100: a century of jokes, and the America he keeps making fun of
Culture29 Jun
Mazepa returns: Zelensky installs a Cossack hero at the Lavra and proposes a central-Kyiv monument
Culture29 Jun
Lorde Opens the Vault: 49 Demos From Virgin Land on a Dedicated Page for the Album's First Anniversary
Culture29 Jun
Lili Reinhart's 'The Love Hypothesis' lands a teaser — and a question about Amazon MGM's romcom bet
Culture29 Jun
A nine-minute space western drops the curtain on animated short-form — and asks who gets to fund it
Culture29 Jun
Heritage as target: Lebanon's south loses cultural sites as Israeli strikes intensify
Culture29 Jun
Inside Khan Younis: the drug-trafficking economy thriving behind Gaza's siege
Culture29 Jun
Khan Younis in mourning: the death of Ellen al-Farra and the information war over Gaza's child toll
Culture29 Jun
IndieWire, Variety Sweep Southern California Journalism Awards as Trade Press Consolidation Deepens
Culture29 Jun
JD Vance's Communion and the gap between the man and the movement
Culture29 Jun
Iranian photographer Mohammad Kochchpour dies; martyrdom narrative surfaces in state media
Culture29 Jun
Tehran sets a Hormuz deadline: what the rhetoric about 'consolidating Iran's rule' over the strait actually means
Culture29 Jun
Indian courts tighten the leash on presumption: two rulings, one press
Culture29 Jun
India's film industry gets a state-led study group. The questions it raises are bigger than cinema.
Culture29 Jun
Hershey, sugar, and the father of a chocolate empire: Angel Studios' origin myth, sized up
Culture29 Jun
Harry Styles collapses on Wembley stage as Modi prepares to gut India's regulatory state
Culture29 Jun
Glass panels, drone swarms, and export blacklists: three signals from a hardening East Asia fault line
Culture29 Jun
Groundhog Day as comfort cinema: a survival manual for the loop
Culture29 Jun
Gergiev and the Bolshoi bring a Soviet-era programme to Zaryadye as Western boycott settles into routine
Culture29 Jun
Western malls and Soviet collapse: Maria Stoianova's home-movie history lesson
Culture29 Jun
A 15th-century priest, an 'antic comedy', and what medieval humour owes the present
Culture29 Jun
Ezra Collective take the Love Supreme Q&A: a London jazz story bigger than one festival weekend
Culture29 Jun
Ed Woodham's radical pedagogy: performance art as a public commons
Culture29 Jun
A newborn is found dead at Electric Forest. The festival circuit is asking what it owes its youngest attendees.
Culture29 Jun
Domestic Hours: How the Long-Haul Novel Made the House a Literary Subject Again
Culture29 Jun
A dog in the rubble, a groom denied shoes: two stories from the wire that quietly track a week
Culture29 Jun
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners returns to a Night City grown more crowded with platform money and less crowded with dissent
Culture29 Jun
Daveigh Chase's death and the longer shadow over child stardom
Culture29 Jun
A 1967 Cult Film Gets the Restoration Treatment — and Kicks Off Venice
Culture29 Jun
'Crossing' Tops China Box Office as Wartime Epic Outdraws 'Toy Story 5'
Culture29 Jun
Why horror movies thrill some viewers and paralyse others, the psychiatry of cinematic fear
Culture29 Jun
Clockenflap and Woozi bet on memory over ticket: Asia's live-music economy enters its next phase
Culture29 Jun
Colombia takes the Annecy stage: what the 2027 Country of Honor pick actually signals
Culture29 Jun
Carl Rinsch's 30-Month Sentence: A Mental-Health Argument Wins a Half-Sentence in a Hollywood Fraud Case
Culture29 Jun
A blind gaokao top-scorer and a 14% AI bet: two Chinese vignettes on the same Monday
Culture29 Jun
Cardiff's National Museum Faces Closure as Centenary Looms, Exposing a Quiet Funding Crisis in UK Regional Galleries
Culture29 Jun
From mud and mayhem to mass market: how the British festival shed its countercultural skin
Culture29 Jun
Burnham's pitch for a rewired Britain lands in a country that has heard this before
Culture29 Jun
Busan's Asian Cinema Fund backs 12 projects in 2026, betting on a region-driven production pipeline
Culture29 Jun
A vyshyvanka, a backstage in Zagreb, and the soft-power logic of Ukraine's wartime cultural diplomacy
Culture29 Jun
‘Blue Heron’ Lands on Criterion Channel: A Quiet Canadian Film Finds an Audience on Its Own Terms
Culture29 Jun
The 007 Casting Director vs the Streaming Era: Why Familiar Faces Won't Survive the Next Bond
Culture29 Jun
BET Awards 2026: Kehlani, Teyana Taylor and the Categories Reshaping the Ceremony
Culture29 Jun
Vere's Dilemma, Still: Britten's Billy Budd at Glyndebourne Trades Spectacle for a Conscience
Culture29 Jun
"Black Box: Flight 298" and the low-budget paranoia revival: a review
Culture29 Jun
Bauhaus at 107: Why a Century-Old Design School Is Now a Culture-War Target in Germany
Culture29 Jun
A forgotten fossil, a packed stadium, a Netflix cheerleading tent: three openings on the BBC's culture desk
Culture29 Jun
Bad Bunny's London debut reads like a blueprint for the new global pop economy
Culture29 Jun
Annecy 2026 confirms animation's industrial migration: 19,100 badge holders, a Japanese short that stole the week, and Hollywood's scramble for the next Spirited Away
Culture29 Jun
A Grandmother’s Footsteps, a Munich Premiere: Helena Hufnagel’s ‘Agnes & Amir’ Goes Looking for the Feel-Good Comedy
Culture28 Jun
The World Cup piracy sweep and the uneven reach of broadcast rights
Culture28 Jun
Weinstein's L.A. conviction survives appeal — but a new sentencing hearing resets the calendar
Culture28 Jun
The passport as portrait: Trump's America-250 design and what it signals about the pageant state
Culture28 Jun
'The Third Degree' Trailer Drops: A Rehearsal-Room Thriller Built on Witness and Suspicion
Culture28 Jun
Three Sunday Prompts, Three Different Theories of American Power
Culture28 Jun
Tehran–Dubai flights resume after years of silence: what the reopening actually signals
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl's soft opening exposes the limits of a saturated superhero market
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl can't get off the ground: a $38m debut and a deeper warning for superhero economics
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl soars, Muse roar back: the week ahead in screens and sound
Culture28 Jun
Supergirl's soft opening: what a $38 million debut says about a superhero market that has run out of margin
Culture28 Jun
Sam Worthington's Resurrection: 'I Will Find You' and the Streaming Star Vehicle That Refuses to Sit Still
Culture28 Jun
A Sunday Night on Nevsky: Russian Opera Holds Its Stage in St. Petersburg
Culture28 Jun
Strike videos and state control: Russia's new line on wartime phone footage
Culture28 Jun
Rosalía and the Pope, in separate registers, turn their attention to Venezuela
Culture28 Jun
A cinematographer's long shadow: the Robert Richardson documentary and the workaholic's alibi
Culture28 Jun
A Singaporean short takes Annecy’s top prize — and quietly resets the map for Southeast Asian animation
Culture28 Jun
A Spider That Hunts by Mimicking the Web of Its Prey
Culture28 Jun
Pace Gallery Doubles Down on Kentridge's Anti-Imperial Imagination — and the Memes Are Already Circling
Culture28 Jun
Noah Kahan, the Bathroom Request, and a Spotify Bet That's Actually About Live Touring
Culture28 Jun
Olivia Wilde's 'The Invite' arrives with the most credible awards-case craft of her directing career
Culture28 Jun
Netflix's paradox: a 350-million-subscriber business the market refuses to believe in
Culture28 Jun
Malaysia's tourism surge runs on a Chinese app — and Washington's tech crackdown just made that dependency harder to ignore
Culture28 Jun
Mel Brooks at 100: the long joke that refuses to die
Culture28 Jun
K. Bhagyaraj and the quiet reinvention of Tamil screenwriting
Culture28 Jun
Jon Snow's last investigation and Muse at the Devon rock peak: the week in rave reviews
Culture28 Jun
Jerusalem light rail hit by technical fault, leaving commuters stranded
Culture28 Jun
Israel formally recognises the Armenian genocide, redrawing the diplomatic map with Ankara
Culture28 Jun
Inside the Clerical Framing of Pezeshkian's Presidency: A Quiet Call for Street-Level Legitimacy
Culture28 Jun
Iran's judiciary chief frames economic crisis as an existential test for the Islamic Republic
Culture28 Jun
Iran's foreign minister lands in Baghdad with relations 'at the top' of Tehran's priorities
Culture28 Jun
Iran's foreign ministry invokes the chemical-weapons memory as a diplomatic instrument
Culture28 Jun
Indian courts and the slow tightening of festival morality
Culture28 Jun
Why horror splits the room: a psychiatrist's six-year-old and the neuroscience of fear
Culture28 Jun
Hugh Jackman's Brutal Transformation: Inside the Costume and Hair of 'The Death of Robin Hood'
Culture28 Jun
Gracie Abrams and the new shape of the nepotism debate
Culture28 Jun
When the Studio Walks Away: Guadagnino, Altman, and the Censors of the AI Age
Culture28 Jun
Gergiev returns to Moscow stage with Bolshoi orchestra as cultural sanctions debate reopens
Culture28 Jun
The fallow year: why Glastonbury's pause is a model other cultural institutions should study
Culture28 Jun
Gergiev and the Bolshoi Symphony Return to Moscow's Zaryadye Hall With a Soviet-Era Program
Culture28 Jun
Dave Eggers on the machine that thinks for you: 'you're cooked as a species'
Culture28 Jun
Colman Domingo Returns to San Francisco as City Reclaims a Decade of Black Cultural Production
Culture28 Jun
When the partner becomes the story: China's courtship of Africa meets a domestic scandal at home
Culture28 Jun
A colliery brass band's last stand: Paul Allen's stage adaptation of Brassed Off lands at Leeds Playhouse
Culture28 Jun
Bollywood's Oral History Boom: How Anecdote Became Asset in the Streaming Era
Culture28 Jun
Twenty years on, Brokeback Mountain is still doing the work other films won't
Culture28 Jun
Bauhaus at the barricades: how Germany's design inheritance became a culture-war target
Culture28 Jun
Britain’s film censor turns to AI to rate the entire HBO Max library — and the precedent is bigger than it sounds
Culture28 Jun
Bad Bunny at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium: a stadium-scale case study in the new economics of Latin pop
Culture28 Jun
Avalon Fast's 'Camp' bets on ritual over jump-scare in a crowded year for folk-horror
Culture28 Jun
Araqchi lands in Baghdad as Tehran reaches for its Arab neighbours
Culture28 Jun
Araqchi's first post-war walk to Baghdad: gratitude, grief, and the choreography of Iranian diplomacy
Culture28 Jun
Tehran's Baghdad diplomacy: Araghchi threads a funeral through a fractured neighbourhood
Culture28 Jun
Annecy 2026: The Animation Festival That Got Business Done While Hollywood Watched
Culture28 Jun
America at 250: Beijing's framing of a 'shaken' superpower, and why the Global Times is reading the room
Culture27 Jun
Akshay Kumar's ensemble gamble opens at Rs 29 crore worldwide as Bollywood's mid-budget math tightens
Culture27 Jun
War and the folk archive: how an African wartime poem keeps surfacing
Culture27 Jun
Vijay's Delhi envoy pick pulls Tamil Nadu's political stage onto a national set
Culture27 Jun
Vi bundles Spotify Premium into postpaid plans as India's telecom fight turns to content
Culture27 Jun
Caracas trembles, Havana watches: a small earthquake story that says something larger
Culture27 Jun
Anniversary in Caracas: Venezuela's June 24 earthquake toll, refracted through the US sanctions debate
Culture27 Jun
Uzbekistan's World Cup debut is bigger than football, it is a Central Asian coming-out
Culture27 Jun
Washington reaches for Congolese copper — and a foothold in the scramble for critical minerals
Culture27 Jun
Ukraine's call-centre fraud economy and the cost of looking the other way
Culture27 Jun
Drone strike on Rostov museum shows Ukraine widening the long-range game
Culture27 Jun
Trump taps Oklahoma's Lance Schroyer to lead ICE, ending years-long leadership vacuum
Culture27 Jun
Trump Taps Lance Schroyer to Lead ICE as Deportation Architecture Expands
Culture27 Jun
Hackers hit Trenitalia: Italy's postal police chief warns passengers over phishing wave
Culture27 Jun
Tipping fatigue, synthetic drugs, and a son’s war diary: three stories the world’s attention skipped this week
Culture27 Jun
Texas puts the Bible on the public-school reading list
Culture27 Jun
Texas school board mandates Bible passages in K-12 reading list, setting up a national curriculum fight
Culture27 Jun
Syria's New Press Code: Damascus Draws the Line on Assad Nostalgia
Culture27 Jun
Kremlin-aligned commentary returns to a familiar beat as Strategic Culture Foundation marks 20 years
Culture27 Jun
A Swatting, a Stadium Receipt: Two Small Windows Onto America's Public Surface
Culture27 Jun
Sri Lanka's dengue surge crosses 50,000 cases as monsoon season compounds an under-resourced public-health system
Culture27 Jun
St Petersburg's Scarlet Sails returns as the city's soft-power set-piece draws another generation into the Neva night
Culture27 Jun
The £86m Windsor windfall: what the Sovereign Grant actually pays for
Culture27 Jun
Striking a Memorial: Attack on Sambek Heights Museum Reopens the Question of What Counts as a Target
Culture27 Jun
Damage to a Rostov military-historical museum lands at the intersection of war and memory
Culture27 Jun
Russia's grinding summer offensive reshapes the front line in eastern Ukraine
Culture27 Jun
A Summer Concert on Nevsky, and the Long Shadow of Cultural Isolation
Culture27 Jun
Reading Khamenei in Translation: A Single Sentence and Its Long Shadow
Culture27 Jun
Beyond Partition: How a Punjabi Translator Frames South Asian Literature as One Continuous Conversation
Culture27 Jun
'Pinocchio Unstrung' and the rise of the Poohniverse: low-budget horror's IP-sharecropping economy
Culture27 Jun
OpenAI's tiered GPT-5.6 rollout hands Washington the keys before the public gets them
Culture27 Jun
An Oxfordshire council's lamppost-flag injunction, and the wider row over what English public space is for
Culture27 Jun
Sexual violence report on October 7, World Cup tipping row and a brief police scare for Buttigieg: three stories that test Western framing on 27 June 2026
Culture27 Jun
After 35 years at Nation Media Group, Dennis Aluanga walks into a quieter newsroom
Culture27 Jun
Netflix's one-email-per-profile pivot, and the slow hardening of the streaming walled garden
Culture27 Jun
A curator in Paris stumbles on Mozart's lost handwriting, and the music world pays attention
Culture27 Jun
A missing activist and a year of Gen Z mourning in Kenya
Culture27 Jun
Modi's delimitation gamble: how BJP is rewriting the electoral map
Culture27 Jun
Messi in Steel: A Patagonian Statue Chases the World Cup
Culture27 Jun
Maher on the couch: a late-night host, a vice president, and a 2028 crack in the cable wall
Culture27 Jun
Maharashtra orders SIT to probe alleged leak of state TET 2026 question paper
Culture27 Jun
'Los Vampires' and the long shadow of Spanish-language horror at the festival gate
Culture27 Jun
Larry David's Long Goodbye: Why 'Life, Larry' Suggests the Comic Who Mocked Retirement Was Never Serious About Quitting
Culture27 Jun
A Giant Cargo Ship at Latakia: What the Port Call Says About Syria's Reconstruction Geometry
Culture27 Jun
K Bhagyaraj and the quiet grammar of Tamil screenwriting
Culture27 Jun
Kane Parsons' Valve visit revives a Portal film rumour that won't die
Culture27 Jun
A Tamil cinema veteran departs as a US tech giant recalibrates the AI rollout calendar
Culture27 Jun
K Bhagyaraj's Exit and the Half-Life of Tamil Cinema's Middle Generation
Culture27 Jun
K Bhagyaraj, the Tamil filmmaker who turned small-town lives into mass cinema, dies at 73
Culture27 Jun
Jon Snow's last investigation, Muse's Devon return, and the week in rave reviews
Culture27 Jun
Controlled blast near Isfahan revives the Iran-file question: what gets reported, and how
Culture27 Jun
Tehran and Islamabad court a quiet scientific pact — and a louder one in minerals
Culture27 Jun
Iran's missile and industrial self-sufficiency push, told through its own state media
Culture27 Jun
A leopard cub drowns in a power-plant channel in Iran — and a wider conservation fault line opens
Culture27 Jun
Iran's missile museum and the architecture of state mythmaking
Culture27 Jun
Iran and the IAEA edge back into a room the diplomats had almost left
Culture27 Jun
Iran swaps the living room for the cinema: World Cup screenings pull a national audience off the couch
Culture27 Jun
A Swiss stop-motion short, a French festival, and the case for small films finding big audiences
Culture27 Jun
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Israeli strikes on south Lebanon intensify, hitting Nabatieh and Tyre
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109 Days In, the Iran War Has a Document. Nobody Agrees What It Says.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Tells Foreign Envoys That 'Unequal War' Has Been Survived — And That Diplomatic Legitimacy Is the Prize
Culture17 Jun
Iran unveils poetry collection attributed to teen asteroid discoverer, as Tehran turns science outreach into cultural showcase
Culture17 Jun
Tehran's bargaining gospel: how the Islamic Republic is rewriting the language of diplomacy
Culture17 Jun
Iran's Health Ministry puts a community-participation frame on resource rationing
Culture17 Jun
A five-year delay, a derelict lot, and the slow erosion of Iran's cinema commons
Culture17 Jun
Iran's wartime memory, curated: a photo exhibition signals the cultural ministry's line on the Sacred Defence
Culture17 Jun
Foreign Policy essay frames US Iran war as a 'strategic defeat larger than Vietnam'
Culture17 Jun
Iran marks a wartime anniversary with a short film — and a quiet argument about who owns the frame
Culture17 Jun
Two cubs vanish from Iran's last wild-asiatic-cheetah refuge
Culture17 Jun
Solapur well tragedy, Sonu Nigam's health disclosure, and the fight for India's mountains: three Indian stories the culture desk is watching on 17 June 2026
Culture17 Jun
India's Most Wired Campus Just Pulled the Plug on Telegram — and IIT Madras Won't Say Why
Culture17 Jun
Hungary's parliament moves to bar Orbán from returning to power, ending a 16-year premiership
Culture17 Jun
Hezbollah's Naim Qassem declares Israel has lost the 'Greater Israel' contest — the harder question is what comes next
Culture17 Jun
A criminal complaint lands at the World Cup: the Hind Rajab Foundation targets an Israeli-American veteran
Culture17 Jun
Hezbollah opens Ashura cycle under new leader, with Nasrallah shrine as backdrop
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The road asks more of you than you expect: a new film on women who ride alone
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Grok on the Battlefield: How xAI's Chatbot Entered the US–Iran War
Culture17 Jun
Ghalibaf's sovereignty frame: Iran tells the Security Council to stand down
Culture17 Jun
In Gatchina, the dead keep surfacing: Russia searches for its own wartime missing
Culture17 Jun
France closes 12 Israeli stands at Paris defence expo as Gaza war reverberates through arms industry
Culture17 Jun
Ukraine's Fire Point signs German missile deal at Eurosatory as Kyiv's defence industrial base goes on the offensive
Culture17 Jun
Fire Point's Eurosatory push signals Ukraine's drift from drone importer to missile exporter
Culture17 Jun
FBI Loyalty Bonuses: Raskin Alleges Patel Funnelled More Than $1m to Inner Circle
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An attack that wasn't: what the FBI's White House UFC plot tells us about the new threat imagination
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The Dialog leak: a peek inside the most exclusive network in Silicon Valley
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Disability Arts Online opens a national archive to the people who built the field
Culture17 Jun
Cuba's land law rewrite aims at the food crisis — and the private farmers it spent a decade squeezing
Culture17 Jun
Cuban fathers, cell-phone cameras, and the quiet politics of a Telegram holiday call
Culture17 Jun
Citigroup lawsuit puts a Trump-linked account back in the spotlight, and Polymarket is already pricing the next outburst
Culture17 Jun
Citi Lawsuit Surfaces an Account Question the Bank Would Rather Not Answer
Culture17 Jun
Trump's Georgia play: Mike Collins wins runoff, sets up November fight with Ossoff
Culture17 Jun
Five million followers, one stethoscope: how a former PLA dog handler built China’s most-watched pet-care channel
Culture17 Jun
Jay Clayton's Pulled Confirmation Hearing Signals a New Front in Trump's War on His Own Appointees
Culture17 Jun
The venture capital veteran who called Facebook in 2004 now says the AI economy is being mispriced
Culture17 Jun
Britain's grooming gangs: a religious defence and a security failure
Culture17 Jun
Iran's pre-revolutionary cinema loses a quiet architect: Behrouz Razavi dies at 74
Culture17 Jun
Behrouz Razavi, the 'eternal voice' of Iranian state broadcasting, is laid to rest in Tehran
Culture17 Jun
Anwar in Kazan: Malaysia courts Russia as ASEAN recalibrates toward a multipolar order
Culture17 Jun
Stop-motion's stubborn craft: Aardman at 25 years and the case for handmade cinema
Culture17 Jun
Abdullah Ibrahim at 91: A Cape Town pianist and the long argument over what counts as South African culture
Culture17 Jun
Ain Dara's pre-restoration sweep signals a wider pattern in Syria's heritage politics
Culture16 Jun
Zelenskyi lands in Evian as G7 gathers against the backdrop of a war that refuses to end
Culture16 Jun
Xbox Game Studios loses its studio chief after 20 months, the second senior exit in a week of reshuffling at Microsoft Gaming
Culture16 Jun
World Youth Development Forum pivots to creative economy as a policy pillar
Culture16 Jun
Iran deal push meets cabinet resistance as Ratcliffe, Rubio and Hegseth press the brakes
Culture16 Jun
Five detained over alleged plot to attack White House UFC event held on Trump's 80th birthday
Culture16 Jun
Vir Das vs Zepto: when a comedian's complaint becomes a referendum on India's quick-commerce middlemen
Culture16 Jun
Bread and circuses, but the circus is in Vienna: how a US–Iran deal landed on Trump's 80th birthday
Culture16 Jun
The Picnic Card That Quietly Mapped Ukraine's Wartime Summer
Culture16 Jun
Terrain That Tells the Same Story Twice: How a Single Ukrainian TV Frame Became a Six-Hour Veracity Test
Culture16 Jun
Ukrainian 'Maul' evacuation drone lands a Swedish co-producer
Culture16 Jun
Ukraine puts a 10-ton underwater drone on the Paris showroom floor
Culture16 Jun
An alleged plot against UFC's Freedom 250 in Washington: what the FBI says it stopped
Culture16 Jun
Britain's defence budget row is the wrong argument about the wrong crisis
Culture16 Jun
Britain borrows Australia's playbook: a social media ban for under-16s heads to Westminster
Culture16 Jun
The Pentagon Two: How a Reported Shake-Up at the Top Could Reshape a Prospective Iran Deal
Culture16 Jun
Cabinet fault lines surface over Trump's Iran negotiating posture
Culture16 Jun
The two records: when pop stops explaining itself
Culture16 Jun
Toronto's gun-for-hire economy: how Telegram is reshaping youth violence in Canada's largest city
Culture16 Jun
Cabinet whispers: will Trump purge holdouts from a second Iran deal?
Culture16 Jun
Tehran's plastic-bag pricing push tests Iran's urban environmental governance
Culture16 Jun
Terrain, Trust, and the Limits of Eyewitness Video in the Drone Age
Culture16 Jun
A Texan abroad: how one bystander video reopened Colombia's sex-tourism debate
Culture16 Jun
Beyond the textbook: how Syrian teachers are rebuilding the exam room
Culture16 Jun
A hand-built canoe and a 400-year silence: indigenous Taiwanese set out to reawaken a maritime route to the Philippines
Culture16 Jun
Cinema in Tehran, silence before kick-off: the screening that did not happen
Culture16 Jun
Tehran's transport refresh: 10,000 vehicles, one quiet signal of Iran's industrial limits
Culture16 Jun
Fiber to a fractured city: Syria Telecom and Citron bring FTTH to Azaz
Culture16 Jun
Reviving a sleeping sea lane: indigenous Taiwanese paddlers cross the Bashi Channel to the Philippines
Culture16 Jun
Syria's energy ministry moves to consolidate water data on a single platform, signalling state priorities in a sector that has long been fragmented
Culture16 Jun
Pretoria Pushes Back on WHO Chief's Account of Foreigners Killed in Anti-Immigrant Unrest
Culture16 Jun
Caricaturist Semen Skrepetsky killed in Poland; Moscow-aligned channel frames him as anti-Russian propagandist
Culture16 Jun
A school uniform, a side hustle, and a drone start-up: how one young founder is rewriting the pathway from part-time work to hardware export
Culture16 Jun
Underwater drones cross the Black Sea threshold
Culture16 Jun
Sevastopol reunites two halves of a 360-degree panorama after 80 years apart
Culture16 Jun
A Russian caricature artist in exile is shot dead in Warsaw: the long reach of the Kremlin's enemies list
Culture16 Jun
A Russian artist in Berlin, a killing in Poland: the exile corridor closes further
Culture16 Jun
Moscow says Ukrainian drone assembly justified Kyiv strike on Dovzhenko Film Studio
Culture16 Jun
Moscow's 103-name blacklist: how Canada's sanctions war produced a mirror image in reverse
Culture16 Jun
A Russian artist dies in Warsaw: what is known about the killing of Semyon Skrepecki
Culture16 Jun
Russian blogger Diana Shurygina placed under house arrest over pornography distribution case
Culture16 Jun
Ratcliffe's Doubts Put a Floor Under the Iran Memorandum
Culture16 Jun
Ratcliffe warns Trump that Iran is unlikely to meet U.S. nuclear demands, injecting fresh friction into the final-stretch deal
Culture16 Jun
Palestine Solidarity Campaign demands apology from Board of Deputies over leaked remarks
Culture16 Jun
Pandas, lions and the politics of cuteness: how a Shandong zoo turned the Dragon Boat Festival into a diplomatic photo-op
Culture16 Jun
Tehran's Last Deal: How the Ratcliffe Briefing Reshapes the U.S.–Iran Calculus
Culture16 Jun
The pied-à-terre question Labour won’t answer
Culture16 Jun
Paddington takes Manhattan: how a London stage hit became a soft-power export worth watching
Culture16 Jun
Five judges, one proscription: the political cost of banning Palestine Action
Culture16 Jun
On pseudo-Everest: remembering Oleksiy Semkiv, 24, killed near Grekivka
Culture16 Jun
Capcom says it's 'quite confident' Onimusha: Way of the Sword will land its challenge — but the demo just told players otherwise
Culture16 Jun
A Pakistani director's praise for Imtiaz Ali's new short: what cross-border recognition says about South Asian film circuits
Culture16 Jun
Oliver Tree's Estate Pledged to Artist Scholarships After Rio Helicopter Crash
Culture16 Jun
Netflix extends its reach into Russian preschool animation with two more seasons of Masha and the Bear
Culture16 Jun
Nigeria's Education Database Breach: Denial, Delay, and the Cost of a Single Story
Culture16 Jun
"The gangster of the Middle East": a Pakistani former minister's verdict on Netanyahu lands at a moment of regional realignment
Culture16 Jun
NCERT reverses course on the ‘Dancing Girl’: a small classroom concession, a larger cultural fight
Culture16 Jun
Two dead, a city shaken: what the NESCO concert toxicology reports actually tell us
Culture16 Jun
When the bombs hit Moscow: reading the morning the Russian home front came into view
Culture16 Jun
Miss Ukraine Universe, novel in hand: how Anastasiia Neplakh is rewriting the pageant playbook
Culture16 Jun
MetInvest CEO Ryzhenkov named to Ukrainska Pravda's UP 100 Business laureates as wartime steelmaker cements domestic standing
Culture16 Jun
Killing of Putin critic in eastern Poland revives debate over exiled Russian artists and Moscow's reach
Culture16 Jun
The Lukashenko al-Arabiya interview and the strange economy of Western outrage
Culture16 Jun
Leipzig's Bach Festival as Civic Exercise: Music, Dialogue, and the Politics of Listening
Culture16 Jun
A Kremlin critic, a Polish border city, and a shooting the wire services can't yet explain
Culture16 Jun
When the frame arrives before the rubble: a Kyiv film studio, an AI-upscaled photo, and the cost of moving faster than the evidence
Culture16 Jun
Laverne Cox says DEI cuts have cost her 90% of her income. The number is striking — the context is older
Culture16 Jun
Laverne Cox says Trump's DEI rollback has cost her 90% of her income — and the numbers behind celebrity DEI work say she is not alone
Culture16 Jun
A school band's viral 'Stella' video is turning strangers into musicians — and showing what Kenyan culture does with its archive
Culture16 Jun
Kursk returns to the screen: a Russian documentary revives a WWII battleground now back in the war
Culture16 Jun
FT profile, a 'kill list,' and the cost of naming names: the Robert Kuzovkov affair
Culture16 Jun
A Russian exile is shot dead in Poland. The questions start with who wanted him silenced.
Culture16 Jun
When the lens fakes the war: a Kyiv studio, a viral drone photo, and the cost of AI-upscaled evidence
Culture16 Jun
Inside JR's Pont Neuf cavern: a Parisian opening that took four years and a second chance
Culture16 Jun
JR wraps the Pont Neuf: a 40-year Parisian street-art lineage gets its most ambitious canvas
Culture16 Jun
JR turns the Pont Neuf into a public living room — and a quiet argument about who owns the street
Culture16 Jun
A West End stage in her name: Judi Dench joins a small royal-adjacent club
Culture16 Jun
Tehran's ritual choreography: the symbolism behind Khamenei's commemoration campaign
Culture16 Jun
JR's Pont Neuf 'Cavern' opens after weeks of delay, exposing the gap between public-art spectacle and Paris's unglamorous maintenance problem
Culture16 Jun
Italy's workplace-porn scandal and the quiet logistics of US crypto seizures: two stories on who gets to police privacy
Culture16 Jun
The boys are back, and this time the bruises cost more: 'Jackass' calls final time
Culture16 Jun
Jackass crew reunite for one last stunt, and one last bruise
Culture16 Jun
Israel's high court rejects appeal to release Palestinian doctor from solitary confinement
Culture16 Jun
Iran's state broadcaster maps a fibre network for a funeral it says belongs to a martyr
Culture16 Jun
Iran and Oman reopen the Strait of Hormuz question, two days after the deal that put it back on the table
Culture16 Jun
Sanctions expert tells Reuters Iran secured multi-billion dollar concession from Washington
Culture16 Jun
Iran's state-aligned media turns a mourning ritual into a mobilisation script
Culture16 Jun
Iran's clerical establishment moves to script a state funeral for its late Supreme Leader
Culture16 Jun
At the Iran game, a sign of internal fracture
Culture16 Jun
Iran opens a national-bank payment lane for foreign film co-productions, signalling a quiet turn toward the global festival circuit
Culture16 Jun
Iran's state broadcaster unveils 'Engineers of Strong Iran' series, recasting the IRGC's regional footprint as strategic genius
Culture16 Jun
Tehran moves to choke cheap imports and force real assembly in Iran's car market
Culture16 Jun
Iran's central bank governor heads to Moscow as sanctions architecture pushes the two economies closer
Culture16 Jun
Iran's cultural establishment claims a civilisational first as wartime rhetoric intensifies
Culture16 Jun
Iran's Interior Ministry Tightens the Screws on Auto Assembly, Putting Cheap Chinese Imports in the Crosshairs
Culture16 Jun
Inside Iran's 110 nights: state rallies, monarchist signs, and the cultural fracture on view at the football
Culture16 Jun
IIT's adaptive JEE Advanced pilot and the limits of test reform in India's coaching economy
Culture16 Jun
India's contemporary art crosses into the Hermitage, and a monsoon road-trip canon is rewritten
Culture16 Jun
Grammys broaden the field: five new categories and a best new artist shake-up
Culture16 Jun
The GTA 6 shadow: how one delayed release is reshaping the 2026 games calendar
Culture16 Jun
Herzl, read closely: a new Israeli institute turns the founder's texts into a civic curriculum
Culture16 Jun
Firecrackers at a children's concert: Gorzów's St. John festival and the limits of crowd safety in Polish public space
Culture16 Jun
The Grammys widen the door, and India's economy fight turns on a single number
Culture16 Jun
From buffer zone to burial ground: Al-Alam films the lives erased by Gaza's new wall
Culture16 Jun
The G7 at Évian and the long shadow of culture-war politics
Culture16 Jun
Fox's $22bn Roku play: a sports-and-news machine meets the cord-cutter's living room
Culture16 Jun
A Gulf drawn by hand: Iranian illustrator Fatemeh Jafari reframes the Strait of Hormuz
Culture16 Jun
The Father the West Invented: A Century of Idealised Manhood Comes Under Scrutiny This Father's Day
Culture16 Jun
FBI Director Warns of Coordinated Threat From 'Individuals Outside' the National Capital Region
Culture16 Jun
FBI disrupts White House drone plot targeting UFC America 250, court documents show
Culture16 Jun
A Threat at the White House: How a Foiled UFC Plot Is Reframing the Politics of Spectacle
Culture16 Jun
Brussels faces a CRISPR reckoning: precision tool or door to a new food economy?
Culture16 Jun
EA plants ads inside the game: what in-play inventory means for the player
Culture16 Jun
Depp's "elite cannibal" remarks land at a moment when celebrity counter-narratives travel faster than the facts they push aside
Culture16 Jun
China's universities shed 12,200 programmes in five years as Beijing retools higher education for an AI economy
Culture16 Jun
China's Quiet University Purge Reshapes the AI Talent Pipeline
Culture16 Jun
CIA Chief's Doubts Cast Shadow Over US-Iran Nuclear Memorandum
Culture16 Jun
CIA chief's Iran nuclear warning lands as Trump's deal deadline looms
Culture16 Jun
CIA pushback redraws the US-Iran nuclear endgame
Culture16 Jun
CIA doubt on Iranian follow-through puts a nuclear deal back in the same old waiting room
Culture16 Jun
CIA warns Trump Iran is unlikely to deliver the nuclear concessions Washington wants
Culture16 Jun
China's uneven May and the AI-curriculum race: what the data is signalling
Culture16 Jun
China's university overhaul rewires the pipeline for an AI economy
Culture16 Jun
The 'overcapacity' frame and the trees of memory: two stories that say more about China than either admits
Culture16 Jun
What a Miao tree and a diamond wafer tell us about China's cultural-industrial confidence
Culture16 Jun
China pairs a military build-up pitch with a quiet retooling of its universities
Culture16 Jun
Carter Page's lawsuit against Comey ends at the Supreme Court — and with it, a question the FISA warrants never answered
Culture16 Jun
China’s next AI frontier is being forged in diamond and a quiet reshuffle of the country’s universities
Culture16 Jun
When Bulgakov becomes a battlefield: the fight over culture in wartime Kyiv
Culture16 Jun
Bitcoin's next move tied to a US-Iran deal traders didn't ask for
Culture16 Jun
The aliens still want the human: Emily Blunt says no to AI voice work in Spielberg's Disclosure Day
Culture16 Jun
"What is strength, brother?": Yekaterinburg erects a monument to Alexei Balabanov
Culture16 Jun
Inside a Ukrainian remand cell: how a corruption suspect became a weight-loss story
Culture15 Jun
A Kyiv-Moscow Argument Over a Medieval Prince Plays Out in Stone
Culture15 Jun
Xbox Game Studios loses its studio chief and a top lieutenant, deepening a turbulent year for Microsoft's gaming arm
Culture15 Jun
A World Cup Built on a Warming Planet: The Labor Question FIFA Won't Lead With
Culture15 Jun
The war that ended without resolution: parsing the US-Iran 'victory' exchange
Culture15 Jun
A deal, a cartoon, and a region holding its breath: reading the US–Iran announcement through Yemeni ink
Culture15 Jun
Ukrainian jet drone breaks cover at Eurosatory as battlefield autonomy moves from slide-deck to showroom floor
Culture15 Jun
A Cathedral Burns, and the Argument Over Civilisational Damage Goes Global
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv puts long-range FP-7 and FP-9 on display in Paris, signalling a new phase in Ukraine's missile diplomacy
Culture15 Jun
UFC plants a fight card on the White House lawn — and the symbolism lands harder than the knockouts
Culture15 Jun
UFC takes the White House: Freedom 250 and the new geometry of American spectacle
Culture15 Jun
The White House lawn becomes a cage: Trump turns 80 with a UFC spectacle
Culture15 Jun
Trump plans July 4 rally and a 10-day-earlier concert for America's 250th, an unusual pairing of pageant and presidency
Culture15 Jun
Eightieth-birthday wrestling, a transphobic heckle, and the new American kitsch
Culture15 Jun
Tony Robbins, a retweeted Bible verse, and the strange afterlife of Camus on X
Culture15 Jun
A dislocated jaw and the calculus of motion-capture risk: Tomb Raider's new Lara Croft
Culture15 Jun
When the Word 'Grow' Goes Viral: A Brief on Theological Drift, Tony Robbins, and the Quoting Economy
Culture15 Jun
Tomb Raider developers disavow the culture war over Lara Croft's look
Culture15 Jun
The Open Kitchen: How a London Restaurant Became a Working Theory of Cultural Coexistence
Culture15 Jun
Tehran turns to the cinema square: 'The Gambler' opens as the 12-day war anniversary closes in
Culture15 Jun
Taremi breaks silence on Iran visa turbulence at 2026 World Cup
Culture15 Jun
Sudan's aid logjams: how a two-month permit and a one-day drive are starving the relief pipeline
Culture15 Jun
Smoke over Kyiv: a city absorbs another mass strike, and the question of who pays
Culture15 Jun
Semyon Skrepetsky's anti-war canvases, and the long Russian campaign to silence the painter
Culture15 Jun
Shanghai's twin film festivals return to Lujiazui as China's screen industry reasserts its calendar
Culture15 Jun
A Russian artist dies in Poland: the case of Semen Skrepetsky, and the question of who draws a line on dissent
Culture15 Jun
A Russian artist in Polish exile: Skrepetsky's death and the moral weight of a quiet border
Culture15 Jun
Sara Carter Signals a Harder US Line on Mexican Officials as Cartel Cartography Shifts
Culture15 Jun
Russian strikes on Dnipro leave industrial site and college in ruins overnight
Culture15 Jun
The Rybar Tactic: How a Russian Milblogger Is Framing Europe's Migration Debate
Culture15 Jun
Russian émigré artist shot dead in Poland, days after public passport-burning
Culture15 Jun
Russian strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra sets the Assumption Cathedral roof alight
Culture15 Jun
Russian strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra reopens the question of what is and is not protected in the war
Culture15 Jun
Strikes, Smokescreens and the Steady Drumbeat of Daily Telegram War Logs
Culture15 Jun
Russia strikes Kyiv's cultural and medical sites in overnight barrage, framing them as 'military-industrial' targets
Culture15 Jun
Russia strikes Kyiv's cultural heart: Pechersk Lavra, Dovzhenko studios and Mystetsky Arsenal hit on day 1,573 of the war
Culture15 Jun
Russian strikes hit Kyiv's cultural backbone: the Lavra burns, a film studio falls silent
Culture15 Jun
When Cathedrals, Sorting Terminals and Film Studios Become the Same Target: Russia’s Civilian Strikes on Ukraine’s Cultural Spine
Culture15 Jun
A Russian strike on a Ukrainian film studio, and the question of what gets called a military target
Culture15 Jun
Moscow inserts itself into the US-Iran track, offering its spy chief as a back-channel
Culture15 Jun
Resurrection and the art of the unsayable: a late-career statement from Bi Gan
Culture15 Jun
Russia's overnight barrage on Kyiv hits a national symbol: the Mystetskyi Arsenal burns
Culture15 Jun
The Iran file and the public screen: what the new Ratcliffe assessment actually changes
Culture15 Jun
A General in Captivity: The Death of Rabe Abubakar and the Politics of Nigerian Security
Culture15 Jun
Palace Ukraine damaged again as Russian strikes keep cultural infrastructure in the crosshairs
Culture15 Jun
Boarding up Tel Aviv: how a vandalised arms-fair booth became a symbol of Europe's shifting mood on Israel
Culture15 Jun
Moscow blames Patriot for Kyiv monastery strike; Kyiv disputes the framing
Culture15 Jun
Oliver Tree, 32, dies in mid-air helicopter collision over Rio de Janeiro
Culture15 Jun
Oliver Tree killed in Rio helicopter collision, foundation to direct estate to artist scholarships
Culture15 Jun
Oliver Tree, 32, dies in mid-air helicopter collision over Rio de Janeiro
Culture15 Jun
The Orange March and the soft power of a World Cup
Culture15 Jun
Strike on Kyiv's flagship Nova Poshta terminal turns a logistics giant into a wartime target
Culture15 Jun
Nova Poshta's flagship Kyiv terminal: a logistics brand tests its resilience
Culture15 Jun
"Myanmar Group" Arrests in India Point to a New Cross-Border Pipeline for Mercenary Recruitment
Culture15 Jun
A Slovak kirtan, a Modi shout-out, and the slow architecture of India–Central Europe cultural diplomacy
Culture15 Jun
Migration as Labour Strategy: Reading the Rybar Brief on the Costs of Border Concession
Culture15 Jun
Strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra exposes information war as much as material damage
Culture15 Jun
Laverne Cox says Trump-era DEI cuts have cost her 90% of her income, and the entertainment industry is starting to do the math
Culture15 Jun
A strike on Kyiv's oldest monastery: Russia's war against Ukraine's heritage, and the silence around it
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv reels from one of the war's heaviest combined strikes as cultural landmarks come under direct attack
Culture15 Jun
A monastery in flames: the cultural cost of Russia's heaviest Kyiv strike in two years
Culture15 Jun
Strike on Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra renews dispute over sacred ground in wartime Kyiv
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra attack exposes UNESCO's reluctance to name Russia, Ukraine says
Culture15 Jun
The Lavra in Flames: How a Russian Strike Reopened Ukraine's Cultural Front
Culture15 Jun
What Russia Damaged in Kyiv, Ukraine Is Racing to Save
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv's largest monastery becomes a frontline for heritage under fire
Culture15 Jun
A strike on Kyiv, a war of frames: what 15 June 2026 tells us about the information battlefield around Ukraine's capital
Culture15 Jun
A thousand-year sanctuary takes the hit: Russian barrage damages Kyiv monastery, kills at least 10
Culture15 Jun
A night strike on Kyiv and the cost of carrying a culture
Culture15 Jun
Fire at historic Kyiv monastery stokes fight over Ukraine's Orthodox heritage
Culture15 Jun
A fire in Kyiv, a founder in Moscow, and the cultural war over the Kyivan caves
Culture15 Jun
A strike on a Kyiv monastery and the long war over Ukraine's memory
Culture15 Jun
A sorting terminal, a residential block, a fourth hit: how Russia wrote the night of 14–15 June across Kyiv
Culture15 Jun
Fire Engulfs Assumption Cathedral at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Overnight Russian Strike
Culture15 Jun
A costume archive in ash: what Kyiv lost in the night of 14 June
Culture15 Jun
A film studio, a radar plant, and a drone workshop: what the latest Kyiv strikes hit — and what they were sitting on
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv absorbs 60-rocket overnight barrage as recovery teams work through Kharkiv damage
Culture15 Jun
A city-wide strike and a culture under load: Kyiv's 15 June bombardment and the long work of staying modern
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv's wounded landmarks: a Russian strike hits the Lavra, Dovzhenko and Mystetsky Arsenal
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv's cultural landmarks take a hit in overnight strikes on the Lavra, the Dovzhenko studio and Mystetsky Arsenal
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv after the smoke: a film-studio market burns while the city counts another night of strikes
Culture15 Jun
After the shelling: what survived at Kyiv's Art Arsenal, and what the rebuilding will cost
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv's Assumption Cathedral takes the brunt of a Russian barrage as crews race to save the Art Arsenal
Culture15 Jun
Front-line notes from Kupiansk: a Telegram channel, a river, and the geography of a grinding advance
Culture15 Jun
Strike on the Lavra and Moscow's Founding Myth: How a Kyiv Monastery Became a Front in the Information War
Culture15 Jun
A new tank in Paris, a fighter-jet divorce in Berlin: Europe's defence industry is fragmenting on the stand it is supposed to be selling
Culture15 Jun
Tehran releases documentary tribute to martyred Leader, sharpening the symbolic frame around Khamenei's succession
Culture15 Jun
Kenya turns to cultural IP as the next frontier in sovereign revenue
Culture15 Jun
Kharkiv's second strike: Russia targets rescuers, and a city learns what 'double-tap' costs
Culture15 Jun
Johnny Depp, the 'Hollywood cannibals' claim, and the cult of the disgraced star
Culture15 Jun
A former counter-terror chief, a quiet ultimatum to Tel Aviv, and the fragility of the US-Iran deal
Culture15 Jun
Twelve Israeli stands shut down at Paris defence show as political protest moves onto the exhibition floor
Culture15 Jun
Twelve Israeli stands shut down at Paris defence show as political pressure spills onto the exhibition floor
Culture15 Jun
Wooden partitions and absent booths: Israel’s muted footprint at Europe’s largest arms fair
Culture15 Jun
Visa limbo and the World Cup that almost wasn’t: Iran’s players speak out
Culture15 Jun
Iran's universities tilt toward AI and governance economics as exam exemptions widen
Culture15 Jun
Iran's clerical establishment moves to choreograph a state funeral for the 'martyr leader'
Culture15 Jun
Inside Iran's Muharram mobilisation: 1,300 delegations, one province, and the politics of religious turnout
Culture15 Jun
Iran, 2-1 over Czechia: a football note that became an obituary
Culture15 Jun
Tehran's 10-point framework goes public: how Iran's negotiating mandate is being read in Washington
Culture15 Jun
Budapest pulls a lever: Hungary says it will block EU–Ukraine talks over Transcarpathia
Culture15 Jun
Charleston's African American museum puts its staff on furlough as political and funding headwinds bite
Culture15 Jun
IMF chief backs US-Iran ceasefire, warning of growth costs if the deal collapses
Culture15 Jun
A film on Sudanese liberation, screened while Sudan burns
Culture15 Jun
At 92, Gulzar is still writing the silences that Hindi cinema refused to film
Culture15 Jun
A viral photo, a deleted post, and the cost of trusting the frame
Culture15 Jun
G7 summit in France to weigh fresh pressure on Russia as Ukraine war enters a fourth year
Culture15 Jun
FIFA's U-15 festival: a soft-power pitch to put Israel and Palestine on the same pitch
Culture15 Jun
FIFA's proposed Israel–Palestine U-15 festival opener lands in a charged American backdrop
Culture15 Jun
Kyiv's missile moment: Fire Point puts a Ukrainian ballistic on the Paris floor
Culture15 Jun
Football, recognition and the new geography of Middle Eastern diplomacy
Culture15 Jun
Eurosatory opens in Paris as Europe's defence-industrial moment collides with its fiscal ceiling
Culture15 Jun
Eurosatory's empty pavilions: Israel shut out of Europe's largest arms fair
Culture15 Jun
EU's 19th sanctions package tightens the net on Russia's shadow fleet
Culture15 Jun
Europe's digital sovereignty plan arrives — and reads like a Silicon Valley sequel
Culture15 Jun
Erdogan's NATO pitch and the February 28 line: Turkey re-codes itself as the alliance's quiet anchor
Culture15 Jun
Erdogan Remakes the Case for NATO — And for Turkey Inside It
Culture15 Jun
The last craftsman of European luxury: Enrique Loewe and the slow death of the artisan-owned maison
Culture15 Jun
Emily Blunt's alien voice and the quiet line Hollywood is drawing around its own tools
Culture15 Jun
When a film studio burns: the Dovzhenko strike and the limits of wartime imagery
Culture15 Jun
A film studio hit: what the strike on Dovzhenko reveals about Ukraine's wartime cultural front
Culture15 Jun
EA opens a new front in the games-as-advertising-platform war
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A costume archive in ash: what was lost in the Russian strike on Kyiv's Dovzhenka studio
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A costume archive burns: Russia hits the machinery of Ukrainian film memory
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A costume archive goes up in smoke: what the Dovzhenko strike costs Ukrainian cinema
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A film studio, a drone workshop, and a costume collection: what a Russian strike on Kyiv's Dovzhenko plant actually destroyed
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Kyiv's Dovzhenko studio loses costume archive in Russian strike — a cultural cost the war usually elides
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A Kyiv film studio's costume archive burns: what Russia destroyed at Dovzhenka, and what survives in fragments
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Diego Lopes makes the most of his UFC return, and the Brazilian featherweight depth chart shifts beneath him
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De Niro's Broadway anti-Trump chant exposes the new grammar of American celebrity dissent
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Beyond the deal: the cultural infrastructure of US-Iran hybrid pressure
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Beyond the Pitch: How the 2026 World Cup Became the Year's Biggest Cultural Stage
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Behrouz Razavi, voice of Iranian football, dies at 58
Culture15 Jun
Stone, mortar, signal: Aleppo's Semaan Citadel reopens as Syria rebuilds its cultural front line
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Zaid's PAS move and the BN logo split: a quiet reshuffle of Malaysia's Malay-Muslim political axis
Culture14 Jun
Xbox walks back the ad talk — and the silence is louder than the statement
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Britain's defence reboot is being paid for in cuts nobody has named yet
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UFC brings 'Freedom 250' to The Ellipse: a one-night spectacle that doubles as a soft-power play
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UFC's crypto bonus play puts a Trump-family stablecoin inside the cage
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UFC brings the octagon to the South Lawn: a White House spectacle with structural weight
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A UFC card on the South Lawn: Trump turns the White House into a venue
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Cage and crown: Trump turns the White House lawn into a UFC arena for his 80th birthday
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Eight decades of Trump: a presidency bookended by personal reinvention
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Tollywood's mid-year scorecard: a Ram Charan juggernaut and an Imtiaz Ali quiet-hitter
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The awkward economy: how Taylor Swift monetised restraint in an industry built on spectacle
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Wheat arrives in Damascus: what Syria's grain reset actually signals
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Tehran's blood banks fill as war reshapes civilian medicine
Culture14 Jun
Tehran turns a school bombing into a curated memory: what 'Soundless Songs' says about Iranian statecraft under fire
Culture14 Jun
Bangkok's nominee crackdown meets a slower-burning debate over Chinese family obligation
Culture14 Jun
Bangkok's Nominee Crackdown and the Lighter Side of a Chinese Weight-Loss Scam: Two Tales of Trust Gone Wrong
Culture14 Jun
Shahrzad Javaheri, Iranian stage and screen actor, dies at 64
Culture14 Jun
Margarita Simonyan's Sochi sermon: when a state-media boss turns film-festival philosopher
Culture14 Jun
Moscow warns Warsaw over diplomatic property as Poland weighs response
Culture14 Jun
Russia offers to rebuild Iranian heritage sites damaged in US and Israeli strikes, signalling deeper cultural-diplomatic alignment
Culture14 Jun
Pro-Palestinian activists press to shut London showcase of Israeli real estate
Culture14 Jun
Paris rally keeps Palestine solidarity on Europe's summer calendar
Culture14 Jun
Pipes, Drones, and a Burning Museum: The Texture of War in Kharkiv, June 2026
Culture14 Jun
Oliver Tree reported dead in Rio helicopter crash: what the wires say and what they don't
Culture14 Jun
A school, a strike, and a memorial rising in Minab
Culture14 Jun
A London exhibition, a Palestinian property row, and the politics of public space
Culture14 Jun
Kyiv layers ritual, diplomacy and spectacle on a single June weekend
Culture14 Jun
Iran's Khamenei Channel Drops a Martyrdom Documentary, and the Framing Tells You What the State Wants
Culture14 Jun
A burning museum in Kharkiv, and the longer war on Ukraine's cultural inheritance
Culture14 Jun
A drone strike on the Kharkiv Art Museum, and the slow violence of cultural erasure
Culture14 Jun
Kharkiv Art Museum struck in Russian attack, putting Repin's Zaporozhian Cossacks at risk
Culture14 Jun
'Kianush's Garden' and the geopolitics of a children's book at Frankfurt
Culture14 Jun
Kenya's e-ticketing boom runs into a Sh527,923 small-claims case — and a bigger question about platform accountability
Culture14 Jun
Khamenei's Eid pardons: 139 death sentences commuted, a gesture aimed outward
Culture14 Jun
Iran's IRGC calls for 'sacred national unity' as regional pressure mounts
Culture14 Jun
Tehran turns to culture as a front-line weapon: the IRGC ceremony putting American and Israeli militaries in the crosshairs
Culture14 Jun
Tehran's Bargaining Chip: Why a 'Golden-Lined' US Memorandum Is Still Not Worth the Silk
Culture14 Jun
Iran's Supreme Leader Tells Domestic Media to Soften Self-Criticism — and the Implications Travel Further
Culture14 Jun
Iran's pension fund quietly widens loan access for retirees
Culture14 Jun
An Iranian novelist walks his garden into cinema: a small story about literature's second life
Culture14 Jun
Iran's hardliners smell surrender in a deal Washington hasn't even signed
Culture14 Jun
Iran's carpet weavers lose ground to a quieter trade: restoration
Culture14 Jun
Tehran's cultural-heritage complaint lands in a wider courtroom: who gets to define a war crime?
Culture14 Jun
India's film industry confronts its casting-couch economy
Culture14 Jun
Idlib Health Directorate launches blood drive as thalassemia patients face chronic supply gap
Culture14 Jun
In Idlib, a journalist's defence of science becomes a flashpoint in Syria's communal fault line
Culture14 Jun
IAEA's Grossi signals readiness to verify a US-Iran deal — and the fault lines it exposes
Culture14 Jun
IAEA chief Grossi offers to verify any US–Iran nuclear understanding, as Vienna weighs a return to the dossier
Culture14 Jun
Mimoh Chakraborty's 'Haunted 3D' clears the Rs 5 crore mark in two days — a quiet signal about Bollywood's horror economics
Culture14 Jun
A Berlin kitchen where Syrian tahini meets Brandenburg apples: inside Hejmo's Open Kitchen
Culture14 Jun
Govind Namdev breaks with Salman Khan's blackbuck film: 'I was kept in the dark'
Culture14 Jun
The album that came back: a granddaughter, a great-grandmother, and the archive as inheritance
Culture14 Jun
Youth as cultural infrastructure: Shanghai and Wuhan host a week the West isn't covering
Culture14 Jun
The 32-year-old defender from Voronov: a single name, four years of silence, and what Ukraine's eulogy economy reveals
Culture14 Jun
Gene Shalit, the mustachioed 'Today' show fixture for four decades, dies at 95
Culture14 Jun
Ferdowsi returns to the field: how Iranian state TV is rewriting the Persian literary canon for a domestic audience
Culture14 Jun
Settlement expansion, a London property exhibition, and the choreography of displacement
Culture14 Jun
Nassos Vakalis's 'Dinner for Few' and the grammar of the few-percent economy
Culture14 Jun
Damascus rebuilds a Mezzeh mosque on paper first — and that detail matters
Culture14 Jun
"Dear You" and the soft-power question Beijing didn't ask for
Culture14 Jun
Berlin's Creative Bureaucrats Want to Fix Germany's State — and the Clock Is Ticking
Culture14 Jun
Britain's Muslims watch an institution of public scrutiny hollow out
Culture14 Jun
"Brother Iranian, you're a Mexican": A World Cup slogan, and what it tells us about South-South solidarity
Culture14 Jun
Berlin's Open Kitchen turns shared recipes into a quiet counter-architecture
Culture14 Jun
Bill Maher, Russell Brand and the curious case of the anti-marriage confessional
Culture14 Jun
Royal Marines and the language of valour: what Badenoch's thanks actually named
Culture14 Jun
The jury as the last public square: why Muslim civil-rights verdicts matter in a heated climate
Culture14 Jun
Beyond the prescription pad: antidepressants emerge as a quieter answer to chronic pain
Culture13 Jun
A Jewish-Israeli comedian on the world's smallest stage: reading Yohai Sponder's Instagram reel
Culture13 Jun
Ukraine's $20 Billion Ask Lands in Europe as Kyiv Locks In an Airbus Defence Memo
Culture13 Jun
Trump revives Augustus of the North: the restoration of 'The Arts of War' as a 250th-birthday bellwether
Culture13 Jun
Tehran's municipal arts body auctions off its own venues, and the cultural cost is the point
Culture13 Jun
After a Toledo shooting that wounded 12, the harder question is what comes after the arrest
Culture13 Jun
"There is no death, but God exists": Simonyan's Sochi festival pitch blends RT politics with a metaphysics of mission
Culture13 Jun
SkyFall and Airbus sign strategic-partnership memorandum at Le Bourget
Culture13 Jun
A Ukrainian drone maker takes the floor at Europe's biggest aerospace show
Culture13 Jun
Phantom Blade: Zero bets against the GTA VI hurricane — and the maths are more interesting than the bravado
Culture13 Jun
Max Pezzali's Turin concert lands as a quiet referendum on Italian pop memory
Culture13 Jun
Lake Urmia rebounds past four billion cubic metres as West Azerbaijan credits rainfall turnaround
Culture13 Jun
Jane Fonda's First Amendment Committee stages a celebrity concert as free-speech politics returns to the cultural centre
Culture13 Jun
Baghdad's stalled Hashd al-Shaabi bill tests Iraq's legislative arithmetic
Culture13 Jun
Tehran plays the unity card: how Iran's state media is bracing the public for a nuclear deal it doesn't all want
Culture13 Jun
ICE at the World Cup: how a tournament became a soft-power test for US immigration policy
Culture13 Jun
Haiti's security collapse claims its highest-ranking victim yet
Culture13 Jun
Havana's biennial of political humour tests the limits of satire in a state that already authors its own
Culture13 Jun
A Russian war film lands on a domestic streamer — and the timing is the story
Culture13 Jun
The declassified reel: what Tulsi Gabbard's biolab release actually shows
Culture13 Jun
Carney pitches a Canada-Ireland-EU axis as a 'force for good' — and asks what the axis is actually for
Culture13 Jun
Carney pitches a Canada-Ireland-Europe bloc as a 'force for good' — and the framing tells you who's being asked to step up
Culture13 Jun
When the alarm is always on: anxiety as a structural condition, not a personal failing
Culture13 Jun
A police officer, a football and a brief, unexpected reprieve from a city that does not get them
Culture13 Jun
Biolab disclosures and the limits of consensus: what a Russian-channel claim reveals about the information battlefield
Culture12 Jun
Zaporizhzhia plant loses off-site power, raising fresh questions about who controls Europe's largest nuclear site
Culture12 Jun
Zelenskyy signs Russian-language Charter carve-out: what the law actually changes
Culture12 Jun
As Iran talks drift, Washington weighs a less diplomatic option for its enriched uranium
Culture12 Jun
US intelligence chief's release of foreign-lab financing files lands inside an already-loud propaganda war
Culture12 Jun
Washington declassifies Ukraine biolab files as Gabbard's tenure ends — but the real story is what stayed redacted
Culture12 Jun
Washington restates a long-running claim: more than 120 US-funded biolaboratories in over 30 countries
Culture12 Jun
Declassified Files Revive the US Biolabs Question in Ukraine — and Put the Kremlin's Old Talking Point Back in Circulation
Culture12 Jun
Drone racing comes to the Donbas: how Ukraine's front-line pilots are borrowing a civilian hobby
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Trump's White House UFC event survives court test — a quiet verdict with loud implications
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Twenty years of Taylor Swift: how a Pennsylvania songwriter rewired the economics of pop
Culture12 Jun
Trump taps former SEC chair Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence
Culture12 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence, blending Wall Street and spy-shop tenure
Culture12 Jun
Trump declares Iran deal close; Tehran says no final agreement reached
Culture12 Jun
Tribeca breaks the AI-film taboo: a 12 June 2026 precedent that reorders festival politics
Culture12 Jun
Tehran stages Khamenei memorial missile display as the IRGC's aerospace record is repackaged for a post-Khamenei Iran
Culture12 Jun
The benchmark gap: why enterprise AI keeps stalling at the demo wall
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Tehran army commander turns a war martyr into parable, and the framing tells a story of its own
Culture12 Jun
Syria's interior ministry signals a widening reckoning inside the former regime's intelligence apparatus
Culture12 Jun
Syria's Directorate of Antiquities opens Sergilla to visitors in a fragile first step for post-Assad heritage
Culture12 Jun
In Geneva, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Quietly Tries to Rebuild the Humanitarian Layer
Culture12 Jun
Stellar Blade's character design row is really a culture-war relay race — and the games press keeps handing off the baton
Culture12 Jun
Crimea stages exhibition of Sevastopol panorama fragments after reported Ukrainian strike
Culture12 Jun
Ukrainian firm SkyFall signs strategic memorandum with Airbus at Europe's largest aerospace show
Culture12 Jun
Shanghai double-header: SIFF and STVF turn Lujiazui into a festival city
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338 metres, one tower: the spectacle of Russia Day in Moscow City
Culture12 Jun
Moscow's soft-power reboot in Damascus: what the Russian House reopening actually signals
Culture12 Jun
Moscow's Tehran message of 'continuing to strengthen' ties lands as both capitals recalibrate under Western pressure
Culture12 Jun
Salman Khan's Delhi HC move against 'Kala Hiran' puts a single line of dialogue in the dock
Culture12 Jun
The film Kamal Haasan passed on, and the franchise Rajinikanth built a decade later
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Culture12 Jun
Six Georgians in a Paris dock: how a Pushkin heist became a transnational rare-books case
Culture12 Jun
When the trailer outruns the film: an Indian director's mea culpa and the marketing logic behind the cut
Culture12 Jun
Patrick Schneider's democracy argument puts Deutsche Bahn back at the centre of German politics
Culture12 Jun
Peddi's box-office march past ₹350 crore signals a maturing Telugu theatrical economy
Culture12 Jun
The Nunhalan festival: a 1,000-year-old rain rite returns to Hamadan
Culture12 Jun
A Norwegian museum of children's art may be running out of runway
Culture12 Jun
A year on, the death of an IRGC commander still reverberates through Iran's security politics
Culture12 Jun
Mariupol's Fuel Coupons and Crimea's Blockade: Inside the Slow Strangulation of Occupied Ukrainian Territories
Culture12 Jun
KuCoin's 1.4 million USDT Crypto Cup: a small token war in a larger exchange race
Culture12 Jun
The governor, the actor, and the audience: Manoj Bajpayee's 'Governor' leans into a familiar Indian political strain
Culture12 Jun
Khomeini's afterlife, on film: Tehran re-cuts the founder for a younger republic
Culture12 Jun
Kronstadt showcases two non-nuclear submarine projects aimed at export markets
Culture12 Jun
The Kennedy Center name fight is a quieter test of executive reach — and the arts are the proxy
Culture12 Jun
A Name on the Wall, a Court Order, and the Politics of Federal Architecture
Culture12 Jun
Kenya's Anti-Counterfeit Authority Faces Scrutiny After Nairobi Boutique Raid Raises Questions of Due Process
Culture12 Jun
Trump's pick of Jay Clayton to lead the intelligence community blurs the line between Wall Street and the spy apparatus
Culture12 Jun
Jay Clayton's second act: from Wall Street prosecutor to Trump's intelligence chief
Culture12 Jun
An Italian gelato school is selling Russia its own national dessert
Culture12 Jun
Six-year-old, a pencil, and a Magritte: the Israel Museum puncture and the question of how museums police the gaze
Culture12 Jun
Baghdad says it foiled plot to kill intelligence chief, blames exiled opposition
Culture12 Jun
Baghdad assassination plot foiled: what Iraq's National Security Service says it stopped
Culture12 Jun
Iran's Tasnim profiles a cleric who never wore the robes: a quiet argument about who counts as a student of the faith
Culture12 Jun
Tehran and Moscow sign a three-year tourism roadmap, betting visitors can outflank sanctions
Culture12 Jun
Iran's state-aligned documentary circuit returns to Soleimani, four years on
Culture12 Jun
Iran's top cultural figure invokes a 1,400-year-old constitutional principle — and the regime's own language does the rest
Culture12 Jun
The Martyr as Statecraft: How Iran Frames Its Nuclear Dead
Culture12 Jun
A memorial, a music video, and the choreography of Iranian state commemoration
Culture12 Jun
A documentary, a martyred leader, and the politics of Iranian grief on screen
Culture12 Jun
Iran’s petrol rationing warning lands in a country already rationing trust
Culture12 Jun
Iran's doctors say economic war is the real emergency, demand national 'optimal consumption' doctrine
Culture12 Jun
India's R&D shortfall, the Air India crash aftermath, and a missing probe file: three threads from a stretched state
Culture12 Jun
India's Innovation Deficit: Why a 38% Rally for VA Tech Wabag Can't Outrun a Structural R&D Problem
Culture12 Jun
IAEA's Grossi Puts Full-Scope Verification of Iran's Nuclear Programme Back at the Centre of Diplomacy
Culture12 Jun
IAEA chief says verifying Iran's nuclear capabilities is the body's top priority
Culture12 Jun
IMF chief says Russia has 'lost standing' even as oil windfall masks the damage
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
Hockney at 88, still finding new surfaces: the artist's half-century flirtation with consumer technology
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
Hamas accuses Israel of dragging Gaza cease-fire as occupation rhetoric hardens
Culture12 Jun
A century on, the Harlem Renaissance is still being argued over
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
Gabbard declassifies US biolab footprint: what the new evidence does — and does not — show
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
England's cultural hotspots are getting pricier — and the buyers pricing locals out are no longer who you'd expect
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, painter of Californian light, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
A grass-roots act of political theatre — and the police probe it triggered on Washington's National Mall
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, the painter who turned a swimming pool into an icon, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, towering figure of postwar British art, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney at 88, still painting: a century spent remaking the picture
Culture12 Jun
Context compression finally works in production: a quiet shift in how AI handles memory
Culture12 Jun
Crimea, drones and a French memorandum: reading two signals from a single Thursday
Culture12 Jun
From SEC chair to spy chief: Trump's plan to put Jay Clayton at the top of US intelligence
Culture12 Jun
A detained scholar, a tortured dog, and the long reach of Chinese state power
Culture12 Jun
When rescue turns to cruelty: a Chinese animal-welfare case exposes the limits of the 'caring economy'
Culture12 Jun
Cairo talks, Gaza violations, and the quiet collapse of another ceasefire framework
Culture12 Jun
Two Bombay High Court orders, two different theories of Indian justice
Culture12 Jun
Blackcore and the French Disclosures: A Familiar Modus Operandi Comes Into View
Culture12 Jun
A tree on set, a panauti for life: Bajpayee's old anecdote about Nawazuddin Siddiqui resurfaces
Culture12 Jun
Belfast unrest exposes a European pattern of far-right convergence, researcher warns
Culture12 Jun
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Culture12 Jun
A Cambridge anthropologist goes live with China's youth: what Alan Macfarlane's CGTN dialogue really signals
Culture11 Jun
Yulin's dog-meat trade is contracting. The festival may be the reason.
Culture11 Jun
Zelenskyy pitches a wartime cultural doctrine to Ukraine's film and music figures
Culture11 Jun
Four dead in Yekaterinburg bus crash as investigators detain company director and driver
Culture11 Jun
Yekaterinburg minibus crash: driver and transport company director detained as investigators open criminal case
Culture11 Jun
When a daycare cry became a trafficking case: the Yogyakarta trial exposing Indonesia's child-protection gap
Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
Zelenskyy unveils first wave of 'Millennium' cultural grant, a quiet bid to anchor Ukraine's wartime identity
Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
Welcome to the Jungle and the curious economics of the Bollywood ensemble trailer
Culture11 Jun
Audio clip reignites scrutiny of a Ukrainian cultural official — and the limits of online evidence
Culture11 Jun
Audio leak puts Ukrainian education ombudsperson under pressure
Culture11 Jun
Who runs the doctor? Ukraine's quiet fight over medical self-government
Culture11 Jun
UFC goes to Foggy Bottom: Rubio and Dana White sign a diplomacy deal
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Uganda's Five-Day Ebola Pause Tests Public Trust Before Any Vaccine Arrives
Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
A gold medal for the small-arms lab: how Rostec's TSNIITOCHMASH became the quiet centre of Russia's wartime arms culture
Culture11 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for intelligence chief after Pulte pushback
Culture11 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for senior Justice post, signalling continuity at SDNY
Culture11 Jun
Two lakh tribals at Red Fort: a cultural convention that turned into a constitutional demand
Culture11 Jun
Tartous rail maintenance enters second phase as Syria rebuilds its coastal spine
Culture11 Jun
Two centuries of stone, hours of flame: a Russian Orthodox church and the politics of heritage loss
Culture11 Jun
The Strait of Hormuz Is Becoming a Theatre of Attrition — And No One Is Calling It a War
Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
Suspected Russian-directed killing of Ukrainian soldier in Poltava lays bare the quiet war of intelligence recruitment
Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
A year after Salami's killing, Iran stages a public commemoration that doubles as a deterrence signal
Culture11 Jun
Salami's posthumous promotion and the politics of Iranian martyrdom
Culture11 Jun
In Seoul's Room of Quiet Contemplation, a 1,500-year-old gilt-bronze offers the city a different kind of news
Culture11 Jun
Russian Railways eyes tourist sleeper service to China as cross-border rail demand climbs
Culture11 Jun
Russia leans on a values pitch to draw migrants as Western states tighten cultural rules
Culture11 Jun
Russia’s ‘Zubr’ short-range air defence system enters combat duty, signalling layered protection of fuel and energy infrastructure
Culture11 Jun
On Russia Day, the Kremlin sells continuity — and the war is barely in the room
Culture11 Jun
Russia Day concert off the Red Square programme for first time in 23 years
Culture11 Jun
A silent Red Square: Russia Day concert cancellation reads as cultural tell
Culture11 Jun
One year on, a Guards Major General's literary circle in Sarcheshmeh
Culture11 Jun
Punjabi cinema's quiet reshuffle: Badshah and the politics of a celebrity marriage announcement
Culture11 Jun
The bet behind the boom: gambling addiction in the Philippines is outpacing the state's response
Culture11 Jun
Patrick Bruel, France's enduring pop fixture, charged with rape as two dozen women come forward
Culture11 Jun
Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault as French authorities pursue allegations dating to the 1990s
Culture11 Jun
A Decade On, Russia's Industrial-Pharma Bet Reopens the Question of State-Led Capital
Culture11 Jun
Netflix's mobile app and gaming push in Asia: a quiet re-engineering of the streaming playbook
Culture11 Jun
Nintendo's latest Direct shows one game to Japan — and a different one to everyone else
Culture11 Jun
A 19-Year-Old's Blog Post Beat Her CV: Inside India's Quiet Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline
Culture11 Jun
Naval drones become the new arms-race theatre, and Russia's industry is racing to catch up
Culture11 Jun
Moscow cancels Red Square Russia Day concert as war enters its fifth year
Culture11 Jun
Eight indicted in Michigan over alleged vandalism campaign against Israel-linked targets
Culture11 Jun
A Milan-Cortina official under investigation tests Italy's Olympic procurement playbook
Culture11 Jun
Mercedes and Munich startup Tytan pitch battlefield logistics vehicle at ILA Berlin, with eye on Ukrainian procurement
Culture11 Jun
MBDA and Ukrainian Armored Vehicles sign strategic cooperation deal, a quiet test of Europe's defence-industrial depth
Culture11 Jun
A second kickoff: Mexico reopens the Azteca and the 2026 World Cup begins
Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
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Culture11 Jun
‘I want flawed women’: how a single brief reshaped a Bollywood screenplay
Culture11 Jun
A LADA, repaired twice, sold as new: a small Russian showroom story with a longer shadow
Culture11 Jun
A Russian-aligned film on Krasnoarmeysk, and the information war it joins
Culture11 Jun
A Kharkiv explosives case and the quiet architecture of Russian sabotage on home soil
Culture11 Jun
The porch, reconsidered: how a 19th-century American form is shaping a new furniture collaboration
Culture11 Jun
Graphic designs and the Strait of Hormuz: an Iranian artist turns geopolitics into ink
Culture11 Jun
Kenya's LGBTQ+ groups brace for a leaner Pride after foreign-aid cuts hit frontline services
Culture11 Jun
A hashtag for the absent: how a clerical slip turned into a national mood board
Culture11 Jun
A Bollywood star, a ₹2,400-crore fraud, and the limits of celebrity-as-credentials
Culture11 Jun
Karuppu and the financier: a Tamil-cinema pay dispute that exposes a familiar money trail
Culture11 Jun
Jay Clayton, ex-SEC chair, nominated to lead US intelligence
Culture11 Jun
A Johannesburg Mass Shooting Claims a Former Mr Malawi, and Reopens a South African Debate
Culture11 Jun
Tehran's chief judge frames US leadership as a failing project, vows a 'new generation' of confrontation
Culture11 Jun
Iran's most-watched: a new survey reshuffles the television order
Culture11 Jun
Iran releases documentary on slain Hezbollah commander Salami as part of a widening martyr-canon project
Culture11 Jun
Tehran stages Salami memorial as Iran widens wartime canon of fallen commanders
Culture11 Jun
A medal in Tehran, a frame in Gaza: reading Iran's 'Right Side of History' ceremony
Culture11 Jun
Kharijite in the Mirror: How a Single Telegram Insult Tells the Story of Iran's Fractured Hardliners
Culture11 Jun
Iran releases documentary on the martyred leader's daughter, and the political reading is the point
Culture11 Jun
Iran's IRGC marks the anniversary of Hossein Salami's death with a coordinated media offensive
Culture11 Jun
Iran's F-14 fleet surfaces online: signal, nostalgia, or both?
Culture11 Jun
An Arabic 'Hikayat al-Sayyid' lands in Baalbek: a small unveiling, a long shadow
Culture11 Jun
Helen Mirren on being called an 'evil Zionist' in London: what the incident tells us about public space and political identity
Culture11 Jun
The mother bear of Abbasabad, and the road she must still cross
Culture11 Jun
The book the White House didn't want: Haberman and Swan's Epstein return rattles the Trump second term
Culture11 Jun
Inside Gaza's medical crisis: a doctor's leaked photo and what it exposes about the detention of medical staff
Culture11 Jun
Haberman and Swan's second-term book lands on a White House already on edge over Epstein files
Culture11 Jun
Gears of War: E-Day pushes the campaign length to a series record — and quietly takes a side in the AI debate
Culture11 Jun
World Cup 2026 kicks off: 10 facts about the most expensive tournament in football history
Culture11 Jun
At Russia’s ‘Fleet 2026’ show, the uncrewed boats tell a different story than the parades suggest
Culture11 Jun
France's reckoning with sexual violence shifts from catharsis to architecture
Culture11 Jun
FIDE suspends Russian federation over chess activity in occupied Ukrainian regions
Culture11 Jun
A mirror held up to the world, then set aside: the politics of FIFA 2026
Culture11 Jun
The Midterm Wargame: How Democrats Are Bracing for a Repeat of 2024's Ad Barrage
Culture11 Jun
Ecuador joins a regional campaign to curb cultural-property trafficking
Culture11 Jun
Havana stages a biennial of political humor — and a soft-power test for the island's cultural diplomacy
Culture11 Jun
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Canada's Digital Safety Act: a content moderation bill that hands the file to the culture ministry
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A stadium, a kickoff, and a Continent listening: the 2026 World Cup opens in Mexico City
Culture11 Jun
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Amin Jaffer's Venice project and the long arc of Indian art on the global biennale stage
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Ukraine's military intelligence turns its sanctions tracker into a public ledger of the engineers behind the invasion
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Economichna Pravda's UP 100 award puts Ukraine's wartime entrepreneurs on a public ledger
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Ukraine's draft office turns to universities as it tightens deferrals for students over 25
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UFC's 'Freedom 250' octagon-girl kits show how sport merchandise fuses patriotism with product placement
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Trump's pick to lead US intelligence rattles FISA negotiations
Culture10 Jun
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Tehran opens a park to the families of its war dead, and the message is the venue
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TeleSUR's World Cup frame: soft power, Latin American agency, and a tournament Washington can't quite control
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Inside Syria's officer pipeline: defence minister tours Homs Military College as the new state consolidates its cadre
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Tehran's clerical succession takes a quieter shape: Khamenei names his son to Howzah board
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Tamil cinema's dirt-road realist and the engineer who beat the trolls: two stories from a state learning to write back
Culture10 Jun
Surya Namaskar study reignites India’s quiet wellness-to-clinical-evidence debate
Culture10 Jun
Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' lands as Hollywood rediscovers the alien — and the question it can't quite answer
Culture10 Jun
Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII: Revelation bets the trilogy on a bigger map
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Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' lands in a culture that has stopped laughing at the lights in the sky
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Six Extraordinary Flights and a Quiet Aviation Story in Eastern Iran
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Shanghai film festival leans into Egypt, marking 70 years of diplomatic ties
Culture10 Jun
Singapore's anti-Indian post ban, and the quiet geography of India's internet
Culture10 Jun
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Culture10 Jun
A drone strike on Sevastopol's panorama museum, and the cultural front of a long war
Culture10 Jun
Shanghai's film festival reopens a city — and a question about whose stories the mainland screens
Culture10 Jun
Sevastopol's panorama: a Crimean cultural landmark lost to the war
Culture10 Jun
Drone strike on the Sevastopol panorama marks a Russian cultural loss, and a deliberate wartime target
Culture10 Jun
A 1904 Painting, Two Wars, and What Sevastopol's Panorama Tells Us About Cultural Survival
Culture10 Jun
Sevastopol museum strike and refinery campaign widen Ukraine's reach inside occupied Crimea
Culture10 Jun
Drones strike a museum in Sevastopol, and the framing war follows the smoke
Culture10 Jun
Strikes on the Crimean coast: how a museum in Sevastopol became a target
Culture10 Jun
São Paulo's 30th Pride parade fills Paulista Avenue as Brazil's LGBTIQ+ movement tests the political weather under Lula
Culture10 Jun
Sabotage Studio closes the book on Sea of Stars after three years of post-launch support
Culture10 Jun
Putin hosts a hundred delegations in Saint Petersburg as Russia bets on a parallel global audience
Culture10 Jun
A long-running Iranian voice is back in custody: the case of Sadegh Zibakalam
Culture10 Jun
Russia's Recruitment of Underage Girls into Sabotage Networks Tests Ukrainian Counter-Intelligence
Culture10 Jun
Russian geological expertise courts Saudi Arabia at SPIEF-2026
Culture10 Jun
Russia's Foreign Ministry blames 'Kyiv regime' for museum strike as cultural sites become a new front in the war of evidence
Culture10 Jun
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Culture10 Jun
'Obsession': the Pravda Gerashchenko cinema pick that says more about Russian cultural mood than its 8.1 IMDb score suggests
Culture10 Jun
A Proust Book Club in Wartime Kyiv: Reading 'On the Swan Side' as an Act of Cultural Continuity
Culture10 Jun
A car at Morskie Oko, and the long memory of the Poland–Ukraine frontier
Culture10 Jun
Gwyneth Paltrow's Israeli luxury campaign draws fire as Gaza war grinds on
Culture10 Jun
Order Over Reflex: How Two Russian-aligned Channels Are Rewriting the Rules of Battlefield Narrative
Culture10 Jun
Netflix courts Asia's mobile-first audience with a redesigned app and a bigger games push
Culture10 Jun
NASA's all-male Artemis III crew and the cost of symbolism in space
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Moscow's unpaid bills: how a Kremlin strategist told Armenia, and the rest, what they already knew
Culture10 Jun
Microsoft's 'curvy character' memo lands in the middle of a culture-war that won't cool down
Culture10 Jun
A Putinist director, a fictional grandfather, and the long arc of imperial kitsch
Culture10 Jun
Mike Wallace, 107, Accepts ‘Right Side of History’ Medal in Tehran, Rekindling an Old Argument About the West and Its Critics
Culture10 Jun
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Culture10 Jun
LSE students publish open letter rejecting corporate greenwashing at Festival 2026
Culture10 Jun
Russian-aligned channels push documentary on Krasnoarmeysk as Ukraine reclaims the town
Culture10 Jun
Khuzestan's water network restarts within 12 hours, but the deeper problem is not the pipe
Culture10 Jun
Kenya Holds the Calendar Line as Iran Cracks Down on School Registration Fees
Culture10 Jun
Kenya's school calendar rewrite tests a longer worry: the term is too short to teach
Culture10 Jun
The documentary that won't die: how a Khamenei film became a snub in slow motion
Culture10 Jun
Federal court order pushes Kennedy Center to scrub Trump's name from digital platforms
Culture10 Jun
A solar storm, a survival at sea, and the Chinese astrology industrial complex
Culture10 Jun
War, not weather, now sets the rhythm of global tourism, Iran tells UN body
Culture10 Jun
Iran rolls out nationwide travel card as rial strain reshapes domestic tourism
Culture10 Jun
Iran honours a British-Jewish academic at a state ceremony, and the symbolism is the story
Culture10 Jun
Iran moves against 'traitors' in North Khorasan: 47 property seizures signal widening internal security drive
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Iran's theocratic stagecraft: a Khamenei shrine ritual for female religious students, and what it tells us about clerical messaging
Culture10 Jun
Saving the weft: how Iran’s Farsh Museum rushed to evacuate its carpet treasury before the 12-day war
Culture10 Jun
Iran's Medical Fraternity Tells the State What It Wants to Hear: Build It Here
Culture10 Jun
Persian language gets an unexpected diplomatic standard-bearer: Iran's foreign minister
Culture10 Jun
Iran's university entrance exam faces a slow death — what replaces it will reshape the country's classroom pipeline
Culture10 Jun
Iranian cinema’s quiet tribute: a former student recalls the Supreme Leader’s three-minute meetings with women filmmakers
Culture10 Jun
A 20,000-person water cut in Hormozgan, and the war over whose camera you trust
Culture10 Jun
Hong Kong's Handover anniversary: free museums, MTR discounts and the politics of giveaway economics
Culture10 Jun
Glenn Close and Ridley Scott finally get their Oscars — and the Academy's overdue problem stays the same
Culture10 Jun
Hegseth's Guantanamo visit signals a quieter, more durable US posture on the base
Culture10 Jun
Gwyneth Paltrow's Israel property campaign lands her in a Hollywood foreign-policy brawl
Culture10 Jun
Gwyneth Paltrow's Herzliya advert lands in a Hollywood-Israeli real estate row
Culture10 Jun
A real-estate portfolio, a religious party, and a tax question: Yitzhak Goldknopf's filings under scrutiny
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God of War: Laufey director signals long road ahead for the franchise
Culture10 Jun
French prosecutors seek pre-trial detention for Patrick Bruel over alleged sexual abuse
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David Harbour breaks his silence on Lily Allen's West End Girl — and the album's bleak arithmetic
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The street vendor in the bulldozer's path: how two Indian cities are reprising an old argument about urban space
Culture10 Jun
Aerospace on trial: climate activists storm Berlin's ILA air show as defence and decarbonisation collide
Culture10 Jun
Survival at sea, espionage on land: two snapshots of a strained US-China ledger
Culture10 Jun
Beijing's Quiet Rewrite: How Environmental Rights Became Central to China's Human Rights Plan
Culture10 Jun
Strikes on Chersonesus Taurica put a UNESCO-flagged site in the crossfire
Culture10 Jun
Bondi Beach attack suspect faces expanded charges as Australia confronts a hardening domestic security front
Culture10 Jun
Tamil cinema’s pastoral rebel: remembering Bharathiraja at 84
Culture10 Jun
A Tamil titan and a London tragedy: Indian cinema loses Bharathiraja the same week a family falls from a tower block
Culture10 Jun
A Bengali remix in a Dutch museum: what an Amsterdam flash mob tells us about the cultural reach of South Asian soft power
Culture10 Jun
Bharathiraja's death at 84 closes a chapter of Tamil cinema that refused to be ornamental
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Belfast riots expose the brittle politics of refugee reception in the UK
Culture10 Jun
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Culture10 Jun
Baghdad lights up for Russia: a small mall screen, a larger signal
Culture10 Jun
Australia's Laser Strike Crackdown Tests the Limits of Pointing Blame at the Wavelength
Culture10 Jun
Anthropic’s Mythos bet: a ‘Fable’ for the masses, a frontier for the few
Culture10 Jun
Age-Friendly China: Beijing's Demographic Problem Reframed as Civic Project
Culture10 Jun
Seventeen months in Israeli detention: the case of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Culture09 Jun
Tokenised equities land on ZIGChain as Ondo deepens its push into emerging-market rails
Culture09 Jun
In Pyongyang, Xi backs Kim and resets the China–DPRK axis for a tougher era
Culture09 Jun
Counter-drone net over America: what the World Cup security plan tells us about the next era of mass-event defence
Culture09 Jun
West Ham's Sullivan faces forced-sale test as football's new regulator takes aim at legacy owners
Culture09 Jun
Washington wades into Britain's online-safety fight — and quietly redraws the map for the 2026 World Cup
Culture09 Jun
The US is losing Pakistan. Beijing is already inside
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The public sector equality duty: twenty years of friction, one Conservative pitch to dismantle it
Culture09 Jun
Russia's Ulyanov questions IAEA chief's resolve as Iran nuclear talks reach a credibility fork
Culture09 Jun
Strike on Tyre: Lebanon's cultural ministry denounces Israeli attacks on historic sites
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The White House as arena: a UFC card, a World Cup task force, and a presidency that now stages itself
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Tirana's brief flag flap: how a week of Israeli cultural diplomacy unravelled in hours
Culture09 Jun
Israeli flags in Tirana, then down in hours: Albania's Israel Cultural Week opens into a country already on edge
Culture09 Jun
Tehran stages ‘Right Side of History’ medals at Khomeini mausoleum as Iran’s wartime commemorations evolve
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Syria's energy minister courts American capital in Washington
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Tehran stages 'Right Side of History' medal ceremony, recasting the Palestinian cause as a global honour roll
Culture09 Jun
Sulaf Fawakherji's "Land of" and the public role of the Syrian artist in a long war
Culture09 Jun
Sudan's war-crimes complaint lands in Nairobi: a test of universal jurisdiction from the Global South
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Starobelsk film asks what a drone strike sounds like to the students underneath it
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A night in Starobelsk: the documentary that names Ukraine's drone war on a vocational college
Culture09 Jun
Senate rebuke of Trump intelligence pick exposes widening GOP rift over security state
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Senegal's democratic test: when 'growth of the people' meets the politics of arrest
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A Tehran exhibition venue gets a new boss: what the Shahr-e Aftab reshuffle signals
Culture09 Jun
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Shift Up's Evie and the new rules of character design in the post-Stellar Blade era
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Section 702 renewal stalls as Trump meets Speaker Johnson with surveillance clock running
Culture09 Jun
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Pushkin, soft power, and the optics of Russian culture in Vienna
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A Medal for the 'Right Side of History': How a Tehran Ceremony Is Recasting the Cultural Front
Culture09 Jun
A life sentence for the son of a Ukrainian actor who played the president: Russia's wartime message to cultural defectors
Culture09 Jun
Religious extremism inside Russian penal colonies is testing the system's grip on its own prisons
Culture09 Jun
Russian geology goes on tour: Karpinsky Institute courts Saudi Arabia at SPIEF-2026
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Two million views, in złoty: what a mid-tier Polish YouTube hit actually pays
Culture09 Jun
Patwardhan's YouTube removal reignites a familiar fight over who decides what Indian documentary can be seen
Culture09 Jun
Peddi's Rs 300-crore sprint: what five days of Telugu box-office tells us about the Indian theatrical economy
Culture09 Jun
Patrick Bruel faces new complaints as French cultural establishment confronts a reckoning
Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
MTN's Streaming Push Tests Whether African Telcos Can Outflank Global Streamers
Culture09 Jun
The meme that misread a border: how a Polish X post flattened a Polish–Ukrainian relationship into a one-liner
Culture09 Jun
Lviv lease extension buys Polish cultural society a year — and a longer shadow
Culture09 Jun
Lyhanna's death and the long reckoning inside France's child-protection system
Culture09 Jun
In Leipzig, a Bach festival bets that audiences still want a vote
Culture09 Jun
Lake Urmia's 18-fold rebound puts Iran's salinity crisis back on the table
Culture09 Jun
Khamenei-aligned channel surfaces documentary on Khomeini as 'fragrance fades' framing stirs debate
Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
A Rs 15 lakh gamble that paid: what a Tamil film’s 6.6x return says about Indian cinema’s economics
Culture09 Jun
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau step out together at Tribeca — a soft premiere for a hard headline
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Culture09 Jun
Israel's muezzin bill reignites dispute over Al-Aqsa soundscape
Culture09 Jun
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Iran's Quiet Wetland Restoration Push Reaches 226 Sites, and Tells a Larger Story
Culture09 Jun
Tehran hands out medals to Western and Indian voices: what the 'Right Side of History' ceremony actually signals
Culture09 Jun
Iran's environmental guardians retreat: Semnan shuts a dozen protection posts as manpower thins
Culture09 Jun
Iran's Lake Urmia returns, but agriculture ministry warns the fight is far from over
Culture09 Jun
Iran reverses course on university entrance exams, restoring eleventh-grade averages as a weighted factor
Culture09 Jun
Iran's craft sector counts its war losses — and asks who pays for the rest
Culture09 Jun
Iran's handicraft workshops bear the cost of a 12-day war
Culture09 Jun
Iran bets on a state-backed handicraft exporter to widen its non-oil revenue base
Culture09 Jun
Tehran rewrites the rules of the university entrance exam, in a system already built for memorisation
Culture09 Jun
Tehran-Tirana row resurfaces as Iran rebukes Albanian PM over citizenship remarks
Culture09 Jun
Tirana in the crossfire: how a flamingo protest became an Iran–Albania diplomatic flashpoint
Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
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Seven Georgians face Paris court over theft of rare Russian literary classics
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Grossi pushes back as Iran questions his neutrality on nuclear file
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The Jersey as a Geopolitics: Reading State Capital, Soft Power and Sweat Inside the Modern Football Kit
Culture09 Jun
Federer to return to US Open for one-night exhibition in 2026
Culture09 Jun
EU lawmakers urge Brussels to legislate against the killing of paid-for video games
Culture09 Jun
Cuban academic centres take their blockade complaint to the world — and ask what culture can do when diplomacy is frozen
Culture09 Jun
When a photo album becomes a memorial: grief, surveillance, and the cost of China's data build-out
Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
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Culture09 Jun
ABC begins covert search for Justin Stevens's replacement, signalling bigger shake-up at the national broadcaster
Culture09 Jun
Seventeen months in, Israel moves Palestinian doctor Abu Safiya into solitary confinement
Culture09 Jun
When AI dreams of Havana: how algorithmic imagery is rewriting Cuba's past
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
Tirana's Israeli flags and the geometry of Albanian dissent
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
When the 'hero' returns: Russia's veteran crime wave and the cost of the glory narrative
Culture08 Jun
Rotherham's long shadow: what a 1,400-child inquiry says about the British state's reluctance to name a problem
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
Under the Big Top Again: Moscow's Idol Circus Festival and the Soft-Power Arithmetic of Performance
Culture08 Jun
The morning post: how a Ukrainian oblast's daily Telegram became a wartime genre
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
Israel and Iran return to open war — and the global economy absorbs the shock
Culture08 Jun
Iran's Yazd province shuts down as dust storm turns air unbreathable
Culture08 Jun
Israel's cultural calendar goes dark as the war with Iran reaches the concert hall
Culture08 Jun
Iran's culture minister draws a shared-threat line in Beirut
Culture08 Jun
Iran's own intellectuals are warning that media illiteracy has become a strategic vulnerability
Culture08 Jun
Tehran's humanities academy caught in a credibility fight — and the academics are watching
Culture08 Jun
Tehran's cultural diplomacy turns on a single phrase: 'a common treacherous enemy'
Culture08 Jun
IAEA draft resolution on Iran lands as Grossi puts technical cooperation back at centre of the argument
Culture08 Jun
The idli, the screen, and the politics of who gets to speak
Culture08 Jun
India's front page, in three unequal pictures
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
Equity's AI gamble: why the UK stage union is taking its SAG-AFTRA playbook transatlantic
Culture08 Jun
FBI readies nationwide crisis posture as 7 million spectators converge on 2026 World Cup
Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture08 Jun
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Culture07 Jun
Salman Khan's posts and the mid-budget Bollywood math
Culture07 Jun
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Culture07 Jun
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Culture07 Jun
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Culture07 Jun
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Trump's ODNI firing campaign puts a housing-finance loyalist in charge of the intelligence workforce
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Hong Kong's bridge, thinned from both banks
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China's thousand-year exam meets its twenty-first-century contest
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Trump's intelligence purge: a culture of loyalty, not capability
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Court strips Trump's name from the Kennedy Center as ballroom donors book $50B in federal contracts
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Culture04 Jun
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Culture04 Jun
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Culture04 Jun
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Culture04 Jun
Russia's Krasnoarmeysk film and the architecture of occupation cinema
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Culture04 Jun
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Aamir Khan's reported marriage and the cost of an older celebrity model
Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
Malaysia's Al-Aqsa statement and the meaning of 'Judaize'
Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
Tehran projects confidence from Beirut, on its own outlets
Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
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Culture03 Jun
When the Birth Rate Crisis Stopped Being Just Demography
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Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
World Jewish Congress President Calls for Mossad, Shin Bet Role in 'Global Information War'
Culture02 Jun
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Washington Returns a Copy of the Sitka Icon to a Russian Orthodox Hermitage
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Culture02 Jun
Trump Taps Fannie Mae's Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence
Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
Trump Taps FHFA Director Pulte for Acting Intelligence Chief Role
Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
Syria's Ministry of Education Publishes Exam Centre Addresses in Bid to Restore Examination Access
Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
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Iran's State Media Reports 14% Audience Growth Over Five Years of Regional Turbulence
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Iran's Top Education Body Holds Firm on GPA Entrance Exam Rules
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Theocratic Legibility: How Iran Frames the Islamic Revolution as Divine Gift
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Culture02 Jun
Iran Halts US Negotiations, Threatens Strait Closure Over Lebanon Strikes
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Culture02 Jun
Iranian Documentary on Fallen Commander Draws Mixed Reviews From Cultural Figures
Culture02 Jun
Iran Reverses Cinematic Closure Policy on Major Shia Holiday, Marking Cultural Governance Shift
Culture02 Jun
India's Sitharaman Opens Door to Capital Gains Tax Reform — but Investors Await Concrete Moves
Culture02 Jun
The Ideology of Endurance: Sacred Defense and the Grammar of Iranian State Messaging
Culture02 Jun
IAEA Director General confirms agency in direct contact with Iran and United States
Culture02 Jun
The governance gap at the heart of BP's chair search
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IAEA Chief Warns of Fundamental Shift in Iran's Nuclear Assessment as Enrichment Capacity Expands
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The Ghadir Moment: How Iranian Cinema Frames a Sacred Commemoration
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Roman Gofman, Belarusian Jewish newcomer, tapped by Netanyahu to lead Mossad
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Culture02 Jun
France Excludes Israel From Key Defense Exhibition — A Fracture in the Western Alliance?
Culture02 Jun
France Bars Israeli Official Presence From Eurosatori Defense Exhibition
Culture02 Jun
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Culture02 Jun
Ethiopia's Military Signals Sovereignty Doctrine to Parliament, Drawing Regional Attention
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When the Screen Goes Dark: Dnipro Attack Tests Ukraine's Digital Lifeline
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Cairo Encounter: What Araghchi's Office Meeting Signals for Iran-Egypt Relations
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Candace Owens in Moscow and the Anatomy of a Media Strategy
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Culture02 Jun
Brazil's Tela Platform Tests the Limits of Cultural Sovereignty in the Streaming Age
Culture02 Jun
Bombay High Court's False-Promise-of-Work Ruling Sets a New Standard for Consent in Exploitation Cases
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Bill Pulte Takes the Intelligence Helm — What the Acting DNI Appointment Reveals About Trump-era Appointments
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AOC Condemns Anti-Genocide Protesters at Nova Festival Commemoration in Washington
Culture02 Jun
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The AI Control Room Problem: Why Enterprise Governance Is Theater Without Runtime
Culture02 Jun
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The City That Defied Expectations: Western Media's Complicated Relationship with Moscow
Culture01 Jun
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Culture01 Jun
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Culture01 Jun
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Culture01 Jun
Vesak and the Vote: How Malaysian Politics Borrowed Buddhist Moral Authority
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Wales's Museum Reform and the British Culture War That Wasn't
Culture01 Jun
When a Gesture Speaks: Ukrainian Celebrity, Rumor Cycles, and the Limits of Media Verification
Culture01 Jun
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Culture01 Jun
UK Denies Entry to US Political Commentators Due at SXSW London and Oxford
Culture01 Jun
Trump's Political Theater: Concerts, Conspiracies, and Conspicuous Diplomacy
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The Uncelebration: How Trump's 250th Gala Became a Cultural Lightning Rod
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Trump Tells Organizers to Cancel US Freedom 250 Festival After Mass Artist Withdrawals
Culture01 Jun
Tehran's Quiet Soft Power Play: How a Design Competition Became a Geopolitical Statement
Culture01 Jun
Syria's Citrus Revival: Latakia's Bitter Oranges and the Roots of Agricultural Resilience
Culture01 Jun
Tehran's Noor Festival Illuminates Iran's Soft Power Ambitions
Culture01 Jun
Syria's Citrus Belt: Agricultural Revival and the Quiet Work of Rural Rebuilding
Culture01 Jun
How Social Media Became the New Front Line of Cultural Diplomacy
Culture01 Jun
The Architecture of Disconnection: How Russia Plans to Keep Its Network Running While Shutting Out the World
Culture01 Jun
Russia Opens Four West African Embassies in Single Diplomatic Sweep
Culture01 Jun
The Right-Wing Internationale Finds Its Colombian Footing
Culture01 Jun
Ranveer Singh vs the Film Guild: Why a Bollywood Ban Is Now a Supreme Court Matter
Culture01 Jun
Poltava Bans Russian-Language Culture as Ukraine Codifies Wartime Identity
Culture01 Jun
Pakistan's New Man in Tehran Begins at the Shrine, Not the Ministry
Culture01 Jun
Nolan's The Odyssey Skips Russia as Western Film Industry Maintains Distance From Moscow
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The Museum Shop Renaissance: How Culture Became Commerce's New Frontier
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Milei Courts the Hemisphere: Argentina's Firebrand Reaches Across the Andes to Colombia's Hard Right
Culture01 Jun
Minab Martyrs Memorial Stands at Vancouver Art Gallery as Iranian-Canadian Commemoration Meets Public Space
Culture01 Jun
The Mirror of the Sky: How a Highway in Anhui Became China's Most Photographed Road
Culture01 Jun
Mossad Succession in Crisis: Barnea Formally Opposes Gofman Appointment Over 2022 Ethical Incident
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A Grandson's Reckoning: Meji Alabi and the Biafran War That Never Left Nigeria
Culture01 Jun
Lucian Freud's Lost Portrait: Authenticity, Denial, and the Art World's Judgment
Culture01 Jun
Lucky Chick and the Emperor's Cup: How China Is Rebranding Its Cultural Heritage for the Digital Age
Culture01 Jun
Marilyn Monroe at 100: The Myth Machine That Outlived Its Subject
Culture01 Jun
Kremlin Aide Revives Soviet-Era Quality Control Argument for Russian Cinema
Culture01 Jun
From Anime to AUKUS: Japan's Two-Track Pivot Into the Philippines
Culture01 Jun
Tekken 8 Director Kohei Ikeda Departs Bandai Namco After Two Decades
Culture01 Jun
Japan's Otaku Culture Finds a New Home in Manila
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Kanye West Draws 118,000 in Istanbul, Claiming Concert Attendance Record
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Jamie Lee Curtis and the Quiet Grammar of Sibling Grief
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The Monk Behind the Bar: Japan’s Spiritual Commodification and the Boundaries of Contemplation
Culture01 Jun
Israel Barred From European Arms Exhibition as France Delivers Diplomatic Warning
Culture01 Jun
Iran's Technical Minister Makes the Case for Industrial Sovereignty
Culture01 Jun
Iran's Science Olympiad Decentralizes: What the Restructured Exam Signals About Tehran's Academic Priorities
Culture01 Jun
Iran Signals Multilateral Approach to Strait of Hormuz Security as Nuclear Talks Advance
Culture01 Jun
Iran Extends Master's Exam Registration Deadline as Intake Pressure Mounts
Culture01 Jun
Iran's Cultural Gambit: How Tehran Uses Art and Diplomacy to Control the Narrative
Culture01 Jun
Prisoners Seize Control of INJUBA Facility in Barinas, Venezuela
Culture01 Jun
IAEA Chief Visits Kigali to Chart Rwanda's Nuclear Path
Culture01 Jun
IAEA Chief Warns Attacks on Nuclear Sites Must Stop as Safety Framework Faces Collapse
Culture01 Jun
Birth Certificates and Bureaucratic Sovereignty: How Hong Kong's Registry Fault Lines Reveal Beijing's Administrative Reach
Culture01 Jun
When Fact and Fiction Collide: Hollywood's FBI Director vs. the Real Thing
Culture01 Jun
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Culture01 Jun
The Tax on Talent: Germany Tackles Football's Cross-Border Residency Crisis
Culture01 Jun
France Bars Israeli Delegation From Eurosatory, Signaling Diplomatic Rupture Over Gaza
Culture01 Jun
France Bars Israeli Officials from Eurosatory Defense Show, Drawing Sharp Rebuke from Tel Aviv
Culture01 Jun
France Bars Israel From Eurosatory Defense Exhibition, Escalating Diplomatic Tensions
Culture01 Jun
France Bars Israeli Delegation From Eurosatory — a Rare Diplomatic Weapon at the Defense Industry's Premier Stage
Culture01 Jun
The American Stage as Creative Rebirth: How Fleur bleu·e Found New Life Across the Atlantic
Culture01 Jun
Donkey Therapy and the Quiet Revolution in Psychiatric Care
Culture01 Jun
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Culture01 Jun
Cuba's Food Crisis and the Long Shadow of Sanctions: A Nation Reinvents Its Fields
Culture01 Jun
The Comedian Vanishes Again: Art World's Most Expensive Fruit Disappears as Kyiv Faces Fresh Drone Alert
Culture01 Jun
China's Scientific Ambitions: Between Research Integrity Scandals and the Global Robotics Race
Culture01 Jun
Glass Doors and Star Power: What China's Pursuit of Pride Fan Frenzy Reveals About the New Cultural Order
Culture01 Jun
China's Cultural Heritage Push: Preservation or Legitimacy Play?
Culture01 Jun
Chile's Spiritual Frontier: The 'Seventh Region' and the Politics of the Esoteric
Culture01 Jun
Sticker Shock: Inside Chile's World Cup Trading Floor
Culture01 Jun
The Casualty Gap: How America and Europe Learned to Fear the Same Glass Differently
Culture01 Jun
Bond's $200M Digital Bet: When Video Game Budgets Eclipse the Original Blockbuster
Culture01 Jun
Australian Filmmaker's Public Testimony on Sexual Assault Demands Attention Beyond the Algorithm
Culture01 Jun
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Faces Shutdown as Israeli Blockade Strains Gaza's Remaining Medical Infrastructure
Culture01 Jun