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Culture17 Jun
A Tehran street, a thousand novels, and the Iranian literary canon's newest entrant
Culture17 Jun
Iran unveils poetry collection attributed to teen asteroid discoverer, as Tehran turns science outreach into cultural showcase
Culture17 Jun
A Su-24M crash in mid-June: what Ukraine's Air Force has confirmed, and what it has not
Culture17 Jun
Iran's pre-revolutionary cinema loses a quiet architect: Behrouz Razavi dies at 74
Culture17 Jun
Abdullah Ibrahim at 91: A Cape Town pianist and the long argument over what counts as South African culture
Culture17 Jun
Iran's Health Ministry puts a community-participation frame on resource rationing
Culture17 Jun
Citigroup lawsuit puts a Trump-linked account back in the spotlight, and Polymarket is already pricing the next outburst
Culture17 Jun
Israeli strikes on south Lebanon intensify, hitting Nabatieh and Tyre
Culture17 Jun
Behrouz Razavi, the 'eternal voice' of Iranian state broadcasting, is laid to rest in Tehran
Culture17 Jun
UFC at the White House, paid in Trump family stablecoins — and a foiled drone plot the FBI says was aimed at it
Culture17 Jun
Rickey Kej and the case for classical music as India’s soft-power export
Culture17 Jun
Senate war-powers vote exposes the new center of gravity in US foreign-policy fights
Culture17 Jun
India's Most Wired Campus Just Pulled the Plug on Telegram — and IIT Madras Won't Say Why
Culture17 Jun
Rain as inheritance: National Library exhibition traces how water made Scotland
Culture17 Jun
Loud bangs over Isfahan: a controlled-explosion drill tests nerves and a fragile regional silence
Culture17 Jun
A five-year delay, a derelict lot, and the slow erosion of Iran's cinema commons
Culture17 Jun
A Sh12.4 Million Arrest, and the Slow Grind of Kenya's Anti-Corruption Machine
Culture17 Jun
Macron's G7 video: a Russian pop song, a French president, and the war that won't leave the room
Culture17 Jun
Iran's Foreign Minister Tells Foreign Envoys That 'Unequal War' Has Been Survived — And That Diplomatic Legitimacy Is the Prize
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
Tehran's wartime ambassador reception and the diplomatic framing of an 'unequal war'
Culture17 Jun
Tehran moves to script the mourning of Khamenei before the fact
Culture17 Jun
The road asks more of you than you expect: a new film on women who ride alone
Culture17 Jun
Race and the British prison estate: what a new Maslaha report actually says
Culture17 Jun
Citi Lawsuit Surfaces an Account Question the Bank Would Rather Not Answer
Culture17 Jun
Starmer's Glastonbury moment puts a new spin on the British political pose
Culture17 Jun
Lake Urmia’s brief revival meets the evaporation clock
Culture17 Jun
The organised community in the age of artificial intelligence: a pressenza reading
Culture17 Jun
The price of a song: how the Vaisi brothers became a test case for Kurdish cultural survival in Iran
Culture17 Jun
SPLC director's alleged $1.2m payment to far-right partner lands on a prediction market — and asks a harder question
Culture17 Jun
France closes 12 Israeli stands at Paris defence expo as Gaza war reverberates through arms industry
Culture17 Jun
Moscow's biolab gambit: how a declassified file became a propaganda reopening
Culture16 Jun
A Russian exile is shot dead in Poland. The questions start with who wanted him silenced.
Culture16 Jun
FT profile, a 'kill list,' and the cost of naming names: the Robert Kuzovkov affair
Culture16 Jun
FBI Director Warns of Coordinated Threat From 'Individuals Outside' the National Capital Region
Culture16 Jun
Ukraine puts a 10-ton underwater drone on the Paris showroom floor
Culture16 Jun
Moscow's 103-name blacklist: how Canada's sanctions war produced a mirror image in reverse
Culture16 Jun
The Pentagon Two: How a Reported Shake-Up at the Top Could Reshape a Prospective Iran Deal
Culture16 Jun
The Father the West Invented: A Century of Idealised Manhood Comes Under Scrutiny This Father's Day
Culture16 Jun
Palestine Solidarity Campaign demands apology from Board of Deputies over leaked remarks
Culture16 Jun
JR turns the Pont Neuf into a public living room — and a quiet argument about who owns the street
Culture16 Jun
From buffer zone to burial ground: Al-Alam films the lives erased by Gaza's new wall
Culture16 Jun
Brussels faces a CRISPR reckoning: precision tool or door to a new food economy?
Culture16 Jun
The Grammys widen the door, and India's economy fight turns on a single number
Culture16 Jun
Toronto's gun-for-hire economy: how Telegram is reshaping youth violence in Canada's largest city
Culture16 Jun
A Texan abroad: how one bystander video reopened Colombia's sex-tourism debate
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 opens a national-bank payment lane for foreign film co-productions, signalling a quiet turn toward the global festival circuit
Culture16 Jun
Iran's clerical establishment moves to script a state funeral for its late Supreme Leader
Culture16 Jun
Grammys broaden the field: five new categories and a best new artist shake-up
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
Tehran's ritual choreography: the symbolism behind Khamenei's commemoration campaign
Culture16 Jun
Inside JR's Pont Neuf cavern: a Parisian opening that took four years and a second chance
Culture16 Jun
A Kremlin critic, a Polish border city, and a shooting the wire services can't yet explain
Culture16 Jun
Tehran moves to choke cheap imports and force real assembly in Iran's car market
Culture16 Jun
Inside a Ukrainian remand cell: how a corruption suspect became a weight-loss story
Culture16 Jun
China's Quiet University Purge Reshapes the AI Talent Pipeline
Culture16 Jun
At the Iran game, a sign of internal fracture
Culture16 Jun
Inside Iran's 110 nights: state rallies, monarchist signs, and the cultural fracture on view at the football
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
Underwater drones cross the Black Sea threshold
Culture16 Jun
FBI disrupts White House drone plot targeting UFC America 250, court documents show
Culture16 Jun
Russian blogger Diana Shurygina placed under house arrest over pornography distribution case
Culture16 Jun
Cabinet whispers: will Trump purge holdouts from a second Iran deal?
Culture16 Jun
MetInvest CEO Ryzhenkov named to Ukrainska Pravda's UP 100 Business laureates as wartime steelmaker cements domestic standing
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 gangster of the Middle East": a Pakistani former minister's verdict on Netanyahu lands at a moment of regional realignment
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
Netflix extends its reach into Russian preschool animation with two more seasons of Masha and the Bear
Culture16 Jun
Cabinet fault lines surface over Trump's Iran negotiating posture
Culture16 Jun
Beyond the textbook: how Syrian teachers are rebuilding the exam room
Culture16 Jun
A Threat at the White House: How a Foiled UFC Plot Is Reframing the Politics of Spectacle
Culture16 Jun
"What is strength, brother?": Yekaterinburg erects a monument to Alexei Balabanov
Culture16 Jun
A West End stage in her name: Judi Dench joins a small royal-adjacent club
Culture16 Jun
Israel's high court rejects appeal to release Palestinian doctor from solitary confinement
Culture16 Jun
The two records: when pop stops explaining itself
Culture16 Jun
Ukrainian 'Maul' evacuation drone lands a Swedish co-producer
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
Iran deal push meets cabinet resistance as Ratcliffe, Rubio and Hegseth press the brakes
Culture16 Jun
Sevastopol reunites two halves of a 360-degree panorama after 80 years apart
Culture16 Jun
Nigeria's Education Database Breach: Denial, Delay, and the Cost of a Single Story
Culture16 Jun
Five judges, one proscription: the political cost of banning Palestine Action
Culture16 Jun
When Bulgakov becomes a battlefield: the fight over culture in wartime Kyiv
Culture16 Jun
Tehran's plastic-bag pricing push tests Iran's urban environmental governance
Culture16 Jun
China's universities shed 12,200 programmes in five years as Beijing retools higher education for an AI economy
Culture16 Jun
Paddington takes Manhattan: how a London stage hit became a soft-power export worth watching
Culture16 Jun
Five detained over alleged plot to attack White House UFC event held on Trump's 80th birthday
Culture16 Jun
A Russian caricature artist in exile is shot dead in Warsaw: the long reach of the Kremlin's enemies list
Culture16 Jun
IIT's adaptive JEE Advanced pilot and the limits of test reform in India's coaching economy
Culture16 Jun
China pairs a military build-up pitch with a quiet retooling of its universities
Culture16 Jun
Iran's state broadcaster unveils 'Engineers of Strong Iran' series, recasting the IRGC's regional footprint as strategic genius
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
A Pakistani director's praise for Imtiaz Ali's new short: what cross-border recognition says about South Asian film circuits
Culture16 Jun
Pretoria Pushes Back on WHO Chief's Account of Foreigners Killed in Anti-Immigrant Unrest
Culture16 Jun
Killing of Putin critic in eastern Poland revives debate over exiled Russian artists and Moscow's reach
Culture16 Jun
A Russian artist in Berlin, a killing in Poland: the exile corridor closes further
Culture16 Jun
Vir Das vs Zepto: when a comedian's complaint becomes a referendum on India's quick-commerce middlemen
Culture16 Jun