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Culture22 Jun
A Telugu film, a courtroom, and the limits of certification: the curious case of Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nandini Reddy's banned debut
Culture22 Jun
How a Ukrainian Telegram channel became the frontline reference for drone warfare
Culture22 Jun
Seven thousand Iranian students ask universities to move final exams past Arbaeen
Culture22 Jun
Bessent's 60-day oil licence and IAEA return reshape the US-Iran tactical picture
Culture22 Jun
Moscow Walks Away From the UN: A Diplomatic Snub With Structural Weight
Culture22 Jun
Crumbl's sugar rush meets a new round of public-health scrutiny
Culture22 Jun
Goethe-Institut at 75: How a postwar cultural agency became a contested piece of German statecraft
Culture22 Jun
In Gaza, a women's amputee football team finds a way off the pitch only briefly
Culture22 Jun
Tarantino and Minogue turn a Welsh seaside town into a film set, briefly
Culture22 Jun
When Ferdowsi Meets the Director: An Iranian Conversation on Adapting the Shahnameh for the Stage
Culture22 Jun
Russia turns wartime memory into a one-click civic project — and a quiet test of how the state frames the war
Culture22 Jun
Andy Burnham's Manchester machine and the long road back to Westminster
Culture22 Jun
Iran's Industrial Banks Circle Back to Production: Sanat va Madan's Quiet Recalibration
Culture22 Jun
Kursk in the classroom: how Russia is rewriting its school history to include North Korean troops
Culture22 Jun
Moscow moves to enshrine North Korean role in Kursk history books
Culture22 Jun
Meena Kandasamy's new novel: a deepfake, a Marxist woman, and the machinery of online shaming
Culture22 Jun
China's dragon boat crossings: a holiday that doubles as a soft-power pulse-check
Culture22 Jun
Strange Days, real world: a 1995 dystopia that keeps paying rent
Culture22 Jun
Damascus hosts Food Expo 2026 as Syria's food industry tests a post-sanctions footing
Culture22 Jun
Two tracks, one country: Egypt and the US move on Libya from opposite ends
Culture22 Jun
Tehran's doctors in Islamabad: what the announced Pezeshkian visit signals about Iran–Pakistan health diplomacy
Culture22 Jun
Qatar and Pakistan announce 'de-conflict cell': what Doha's latest mediation instrument actually does
Culture22 Jun
Reading the Qatar–Pakistan de-conflict cell: diplomacy by joint inbox
Culture22 Jun
Pezeshkian's Islamabad trip: what Tehran wants from a one-day Pakistan visit
Culture22 Jun
China's Dragon Boat Festival goes commercial: a three-day test of soft-power economics
Culture22 Jun
Iran's copper reserve just got 30% bigger — and the metals story no one is watching
Culture22 Jun
Nairobi's patience thins: a Standard Kenya gallery lays out the gap between Ruto's pledges and the visible record
Culture22 Jun
Shanghai police deploy 'zipper' formation as Dragon Boat crowds surge
Culture22 Jun
In China, older women are renting themselves out, for company, not sex
Culture22 Jun
Syrian actress Soulaf Fawakharji receives 'Correct Direction of History' medal in Tehran
Culture22 Jun
Tehran prepares an 8,000-capacity reception for the burial of a senior Iranian leader
Culture22 Jun
Iran's leadership transition: what a Khamenei funeral announcement tells us about the succession question
Culture22 Jun
The Culture Apothecary and the Rise of the Long-Form Creator Podcast
Culture22 Jun
Tinder's algorithm and the karaoke crowd: two short videos, one question about how culture curates itself
Culture22 Jun
No talks, no deal: Tehran's own account of the Switzerland round pours cold water on Grossi meeting
Culture22 Jun
Pyongyang's Kursk Street: How a Pyongyang Street-Naming Reveals the Architecture of the Russia–DPRK Axis
Culture22 Jun
From silver screen to statehouse: Vijay's Tamil Nadu victory and the celebrity-to-power pipeline in Indian politics
Culture22 Jun
A Prize for the Windrush Generation's Stories, Funded by Its Own Unfinished Justice
Culture22 Jun
Tehran Holds the Line on Cannabis as Opium Remains the Dominant Drug of Use
Culture22 Jun
Iran Quietly Closes a Loophole: End-of-Month Dowries No Longer Bar Travel Bans for Men
Culture22 Jun
The body that draws a region: Iran lays Sayyid Hassan Khamenei to rest as foreign delegations arrive
Culture22 Jun
A Candle, A Calendar, A Country: How Russia Keeps the Great Patriotic War Lit
Culture22 Jun
Death on the Bhansali set: what a single fatality exposes about India's film safety regime
Culture22 Jun
The General Who Came From a Family of Generals: A Note on Russian Command Culture
Culture22 Jun
Iran's state cultural apparatus rallies around a martyred leader
Culture22 Jun
Iran's port of Bandar Abbas logs a second container-ship call as Hormuz traffic stays elevated
Culture22 Jun
A funeral in Tehran, a state ritual: how Iran stages martyrdom in real time
Culture22 Jun
Millions gather in Najaf and Karbala for the funeral of a cleric Iran calls a martyr
Culture22 Jun
Chamran, the man behind the phrase: how an Iranian revolutionary's two works became a slogan of self-sacrifice
Culture22 Jun
Wreaths on the Vistula: Warsaw Reclaims Kupala Night as a Civic Spectacle
Culture22 Jun
Samantha Ruth Prabhu's Telugu comeback crosses Rs 41 crore in three days — and a regional star reshapes the sub-continental box office
Culture22 Jun
Main Vaapas Aaunga's slow-burn box office: Imtiaz Ali's Rs 41 crore in ten days, and what Hindi romance looks like in 2026
Culture22 Jun
Shahid Kapoor's 'Cocktail 2' crosses Rs 75 crore worldwide in three days, signalling a Bollywood tentpole still alive
Culture22 Jun
Dragon Boat, Heavy Industry: Beijing's Carbon Plan Rides the Holiday
Culture22 Jun
Toy Story 5 resets the counter for Pixar — and for theatrical animation
Culture22 Jun
Gears of War: E-Day revives four-player co-op after a decade
Culture22 Jun
Lord British comes home: Richard Garriott nears deal to reclaim Ultima rights from Electronic Arts
Culture22 Jun
From zebrafish clones to full-face sunscreen: three small China stories and the larger pattern underneath
Culture22 Jun
Amazon Drops Sam Altman Biopic 'Artificial' After Deepening OpenAI Partnership
Culture22 Jun
After 50 companies struck off, Alan Latham's creditors lose the entity they were chasing
Culture22 Jun
What happened to the studio Walt Disney built?
Culture22 Jun
Polish opposition MP Krzysztof Bosak sharpens critique of Ukraine reconstruction arrangements
Culture22 Jun
A stadium, a silence, a comeback: KINO returns to Luzhniki 36 years after Viktor Tsoi's last concert
Culture21 Jun
Walt Disney and the Argument the Brand Can No Longer Outrun
Culture21 Jun
KINO returns to Luzhniki: a Moscow reunion staged on the anniversary of a Soviet rock icon's final show
Culture21 Jun
Colombians Abroad Turn Caracas Consulate Into a Polling Station
Culture21 Jun
Candles and Cadres: Moscow Stages a Numbers Game on the Eve of a War Anniversary
Culture21 Jun
Cinema of one: Gen Z rediscovers the solo moviegoing ritual
Culture21 Jun
Qatar-backed mosque opens in Syria's Yabroud district as Damascus tilts toward Gulf patrons
Culture21 Jun
Sky bets on a docudrama about Russia's invasion — and the timing says a lot
Culture21 Jun
Poland's Ukraine reconstruction pitch collides with a quieter question: who actually pays?
Culture21 Jun
Mottaki's caution on US talks revives an old argument about Iranian negotiating posture
Culture21 Jun
Hormozgan exhumes the children of Minab: a forensic protocol dressed as commemoration
Culture21 Jun
Former Shin Bet chief's UAE evacuation signals how exposed Israeli security figures have become abroad
Culture21 Jun
Crimea's summer collapse: cancelled events, fuel cuts, and a tourism season that never came
Culture21 Jun
Crimea's quiet summer: how a wartime peninsula lost its tourists before it lost the war
Culture21 Jun
A 19-year-old shrine servant in Qom: the human toll behind an Israeli strike on Iran
Culture21 Jun
Iran puts oil sanctions on the table at Swiss talks, signalling potential recalibration
Culture21 Jun
NSA leadership transition tests Washington's cyber posture as Senate scrutiny tightens
Culture21 Jun
Karisma Kapoor at 35: a debut film that defined an era, and a career that outran it
Culture21 Jun
Two videos, one frame: how a Telegram channel built a transnational migrant-crime narrative
Culture21 Jun
A death in the arena: Madison Square Garden and the long, quiet ledger of concert-venue safety
Culture21 Jun
Bengaluru's electoral blind spot and the quiet cosmopolitanism of Lagaan's English daughter-in-law
Culture21 Jun
Iran turns a slain general into a four-episode drama: notes from Khamenei's newest martyr serial
Culture21 Jun
Inside the Khamenei documentary: a portrait of the supreme leader, framed by his own broadcast
Culture21 Jun
Iran's state media turns a slain general into a national myth
Culture21 Jun
Knockdown in the camera frame: a brief British street-clip and the longer argument about who films whom
Culture21 Jun
Strait of Hormuz shut, US-Iran talks open: what a closed chokepoint means for the world’s oil supply
Culture21 Jun
David Hockney's quiet exit: a painter who refused the spectacle gets a private funeral
Culture21 Jun
France puts a third of the country on red alert as a 42°C heatwave reshapes public life
Culture21 Jun
A quiet funeral, a heatwave edict and a leaked exam: three snapshots of a planet under pressure
Culture21 Jun
Young readers, old cosmologies: Kalyani Pai's 'Giants' and the case for indigenous story in children's publishing
Culture21 Jun
A Strait, a Ceasefire, and a Slow-Motion Squeeze: Sailors Caught in the Hormuz Dragnet
Culture21 Jun
Chaoshan Dialect Goes Mainstream: How a Low-Budget Film Quietly Rewrote Local-Chinese Cinema
Culture21 Jun
Iran-aligned channel frames Lebanon as a US–Israel division of labour, with 'beating' as the only restraint
Culture21 Jun
New College of Florida's threefold expansion: DeSantis's culture war meets a campus merger
Culture21 Jun
Tehran's 'Wakav' reading series asks whether Iran can fund its own cultural commons
Culture21 Jun
Hockney's last exit: a private funeral, a public legacy
Culture21 Jun
African and Caribbean leaders move from declaration to repair: what the Ghana reparations compact actually says
Culture21 Jun