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Culture20 Jun
Gabbard's Last-Day Document Dump Reignites the COVID Origins Fight
Culture20 Jun
Paris's Fête de la Musique braces for 2 million as heatwave prompts unusual safety push
Culture20 Jun
Iran's National University Entrance Exam Holds Its August Slot, With a Generation's Stakes Behind the Calendar
Culture20 Jun
Mandana Shirvani's 'Zero One' and the New Iranian Wartime Cinema
Culture20 Jun
Fedorov's mobilisation reset meets an EU milestone: Ukraine's summer of institutional deals
Culture20 Jun
Steven Seagal, the Kremlin's Man in Hollywood: How an Action Star Became a Vector for Iranian State Narratives
Culture20 Jun
Netflix's 'The Polygamist' revives a debate African audiences never settled
Culture20 Jun
Hosseinieh Azam: a Zanjan landmark heads into reconstruction after Arbaeen
Culture20 Jun
Cathedral, wedding hall, ruin: the strange rooms where the 2026 World Cup will be watched
Culture20 Jun
Ramzy Baroud's 'Before the Flood' arrives as a Palestinian family memoir — and a political document
Culture20 Jun
Budapest lifts Orban-era block on Ukrainian media, reopening the public sphere
Culture20 Jun
Belgium's World Cup slot hands Iran a stage few expected
Culture20 Jun
Six decades on, Congolese rumba's architects reunite on a Belgian stage, and the politics travel with them
Culture20 Jun
Tehran's Africa turn: how an Iranian state-backed documentary is reframing Sudan's past
Culture20 Jun
Damascus's Salhiya neighbourhood stages a quiet referendum on transitional justice
Culture20 Jun
Damage to Kyiv's Dormition Cathedral widens a cultural front in a war that has already taken hundreds of heritage sites
Culture20 Jun
Japan's obesity rate is one-tenth America's. The reasons are older than the diet advice.
Culture20 Jun
Courts, cameras, and Bollywood: the legal pressure on a regional Marathi film becomes a national flashpoint
Culture20 Jun
Tehran's waste pickers get a municipal roster: how a grassroots network is being formalised
Culture20 Jun
Wema Sepetu's long road to motherhood, told in her own words
Culture20 Jun
A school burns, a Senate panel legislates: Kenya's dormitory fires and Washington's industrial-policy turn
Culture20 Jun
Netflix's 'The Polygamist' lands in Kenya and the country is arguing with itself
Culture20 Jun
Dragon Boat Festival 2026: A Three-Day Window Into China's Soft-Power Calendar
Culture20 Jun
Dragon Boat Festival 2026: an ancient poem, a contested river
Culture20 Jun
James Burrows, the director who taught American television how to land a punchline, has died at 85
Culture20 Jun
Latex on the LRT: how one commuter is reframing Malaysia's modesty debate
Culture20 Jun
James Burrows, the director who taught American television how to laugh, dies at 85
Culture20 Jun
A French whaler, a Korean island, and the case for inventing a festival
Culture20 Jun
Yeats, Silk Road programmers and a century of Chinese-Irish cultural borrowing
Culture20 Jun
When the State Stops Calling the Tune: The Death of Héctor 'Niño Guerrero' and the Long March of Latin America's Parallel Order
Culture20 Jun
A vegetable juice, an ICU bed, and a question about online health advice in China
Culture20 Jun
Tehran Calls French Remarks 'Height of Hypocrisy, Duplicity' in Latest Diplomatic Spat
Culture20 Jun
Dragon Boat Festival doubles as a stress test for China's domestic demand thesis
Culture20 Jun
Wax gods and WhatsApp healers: how Ayodhya's faith economy is being remade
Culture20 Jun
Iran's foreign ministry calls French counterpart's remarks on Iranian people 'the height of hypocrisy'
Culture20 Jun
A tombstone in the Qajar desert: the afterlife of a monument built on slave labour
Culture20 Jun
'Cactus Pears' and the case for slow cinema from the Global South
Culture20 Jun
A feather in a frozen pack: how a TikTok-grade food scare is testing Poland's retail accountability regime
Culture20 Jun
Supergirl's soft tracking exposes a DC Studios math problem
Culture20 Jun
Cienfuegos paper mill reopens, testing Cuba's input-substitution bet
Culture20 Jun
Amazon Drops an OpenAI Biopic at the Worst Possible Moment for Amazon
Culture20 Jun
John Jumper's move from DeepMind to Anthropic signals a new phase in the AI talent war
Culture20 Jun
James Burrows, the director television never learned to name
Culture20 Jun
The Spy Moscow Could Not Save: Richard Sorge and the Limits of Human Intelligence
Culture19 Jun
A South African Actress, a Viral Husband-Warning, and the Question That Outlived the Video
Culture19 Jun
Balloons, drones and the new low-cost air threat shaping the Ukraine war
Culture19 Jun
James Burrows, the director television never quite learned to name
Culture19 Jun
Tehran–Paris clash exposes widening rift over Iran’s protest crackdown
Culture19 Jun
Tehran-Paris diplomatic row reopens as Iran accuses French foreign minister of 'hypocrisy' over Iranian people
Culture19 Jun
Obama presidential library opens in Chicago, drawing crowds eight years after White House exit
Culture19 Jun
Tehran pulls the ripcord on a Hormuz rumour, then turns on Paris
Culture19 Jun
Air Force One exit plan exposes a quieter fight over presidential aviation
Culture19 Jun
Damascus stages a reckoning: Syria's new culture minister meets the theater troupe behind transitional-justice plays
Culture19 Jun
Slow-burn legacies: why the crime thriller remains cinema's most durable genre
Culture19 Jun
Poland strips Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle, exposing a wider rift with Kyiv
Culture19 Jun
John Jumper's move from DeepMind to Anthropic signals a new phase in the AI talent war
Culture19 Jun
Armenia's Russian-Orthodox soft-power question: a new audit says the church is the network's backbone
Culture19 Jun
On the loudspeakers of Hosseiniyeh: how a Friday-evening mourning rite became Iran's loudest political megaphone
Culture19 Jun
India grants tourism visa to Israeli ex-soldier wanted over Gaza war crimes complaint, drawing fierce rebuke
Culture19 Jun
Russia's Quiet Copyright Pivot: What a State Duma Vote on Foreign-Language Music Reveals About the Information War
Culture19 Jun
Tehran Warns Washington: Don't Let a 'Third Party' Sabotage the Peace Track
Culture19 Jun
Burnham's Makerfield rout turns up the heat on Starmer — without deciding the next move
Culture19 Jun
Iran's Presidential Office Warns Washington Against Letting a 'Third Party' Spoil Its Own Peace Track
Culture19 Jun
How a Georgia town of 2,000 turned back a 10,000-bed ICE plan
Culture19 Jun
Ayodhya's Wax Ramayana: Heritage as Soft Power in a Temple Town Built on Politics
Culture19 Jun
Burnham's Makerfield landslide turns up the heat on Starmer
Culture19 Jun
A Russian gripe about an Iranian official goes public, and the optics are awkward for everyone
Culture19 Jun
Hegseth's culture argument lands in a Pentagon reshaped by algorithm and attention markets
Culture19 Jun
Burnham's Makerfield earthquake puts Starmer's premiership on the clock
Culture19 Jun
IAEA heads to Geneva as nuclear-deal memo puts watchdog back at centre of the table
Culture19 Jun
Tariffs, marriages and a Hong Kong verdict: the China file in three moves
Culture19 Jun
The Tax Collector Returns: Al-Shabaab's Fiscal State-Building in South-Central Somalia
Culture19 Jun
Paddles, drums and a 2,000-year ritual: Taiwan's Dragon Boat Festival crowds hold steady
Culture19 Jun
Estonia's language politics return to a familiar fault line in Kohtla-Järve
Culture19 Jun
A 12-Day Marriage and a Five-Year Jail Term: Two China Stories the Western Wire Skims Past
Culture19 Jun
Two Hongkongers jailed in the UK, and a twelve-day marriage in Henan: notes from a week in China
Culture19 Jun
'Regime Change' offers a window into how Trump talks about the world — and the aides who translate it
Culture19 Jun
Obama's presidential centre opens in Chicago — a museum with a civic brief
Culture19 Jun
Polish consumers vent at supermarket surveillance and frozen-fruit supply chains
Culture19 Jun
Colombia heads into a presidential runoff framed as a regional referendum on the right
Culture19 Jun
India's Got Latent Returns: Netflix and YouTube Square Off Over Samay Raina's Talent Show
Culture19 Jun
Iran's army renews wartime posture as the '12-Day War' anniversary rhetoric returns
Culture19 Jun
Reliance's $4bn share sale: how one Indian conglomerate is rewriting the rules of emerging-market capital
Culture19 Jun
Ethereum's quiet restructuring: foundation exodus meets funding squeeze
Culture19 Jun
After the regime fell, customs came first: how Syria's new authorities are rebuilding the airport corridor
Culture19 Jun
Andy Burnham's Makerfield win leaves Keir Starmer exposed — but Labour's centre of gravity is still contested
Culture19 Jun
Before the British, before the madrasas: a quieter argument about India's classroom origins
Culture19 Jun
Iran turns a state documentary into a martyrdom catechism for the next generation
Culture19 Jun
Russia's 'Memory Train' rolls into Belarus: propaganda as cross-border product
Culture19 Jun
Karnataka's rowdy-sheeter list and the politics of selective amnesia
Culture19 Jun
London tops a global art-and-culture ranking — and the list is doing what rankings always do
Culture19 Jun
Declassified files revive the biolab question in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Culture19 Jun
The Dumpling Divide: How a 2,000-Year-Old Festival Still Splits China
Culture19 Jun
Tulsi Gabbard, the ODNI, and a Slow-Motion War Over the Public Record
Culture19 Jun
A century after her birth, Marilyn Monroe is still selling an answer to a question nobody asked
Culture19 Jun
A pink city climbs the global culture chart: what Jaipur's #18 ranking actually measures
Culture19 Jun
A settler activist's online plea puts a West Bank outpost back on Israel's agenda
Culture19 Jun
Ukraine's Defence Industry Goes Modular: 'Ukrainian Armored Vehicles' Codifies New FPV Drone Body
Culture19 Jun
Czech nuclear institute fires director after report it trained PLA-affiliated experts on CBRN defence
Culture19 Jun