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Culture12 Jun
Crimea, drones and a French memorandum: reading two signals from a single Thursday
Culture12 Jun
Syria's Directorate of Antiquities opens Sergilla to visitors in a fragile first step for post-Assad heritage
Culture12 Jun
A documentary, a martyred leader, and the politics of Iranian grief on screen
Culture12 Jun
As Iran talks drift, Washington weighs a less diplomatic option for its enriched uranium
Culture12 Jun
A machine-made film about Iran's uprising lands at Tribeca — and tests what 'cinema' now means
Culture12 Jun
Washington restates a long-running claim: more than 120 US-funded biolaboratories in over 30 countries
Culture12 Jun
Washington declassifies Ukraine biolab files as Gabbard's tenure ends — but the real story is what stayed redacted
Culture12 Jun
Trump's White House UFC event survives court test — a quiet verdict with loud implications
Culture12 Jun
Zelenskyy signs Russian-language Charter carve-out: what the law actually changes
Culture12 Jun
US intelligence chief's release of foreign-lab financing files lands inside an already-loud propaganda war
Culture12 Jun
Blackcore and the French Disclosures: A Familiar Modus Operandi Comes Into View
Culture12 Jun
A year on, the death of an IRGC commander still reverberates through Iran's security politics
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, towering figure of postwar British art, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
IAEA's Grossi Puts Full-Scope Verification of Iran's Nuclear Programme Back at the Centre of Diplomacy
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
IAEA chief says verifying Iran's nuclear capabilities is the body's top priority
Culture12 Jun
The Nunhalan festival: a 1,000-year-old rain rite returns to Hamadan
Culture12 Jun
Zaporizhzhia plant loses off-site power, raising fresh questions about who controls Europe's largest nuclear site
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
Declassified Files Revive the US Biolabs Question in Ukraine — and Put the Kremlin's Old Talking Point Back in Circulation
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
David Hockney, the painter who turned a swimming pool into an icon, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
Tehran army commander turns a war martyr into parable, and the framing tells a story of its own
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
Inside the solitary confinement of Gaza's last paediatrician: what the Hussam Abu Safiya case reveals
Culture12 Jun
Gabbard declassifies US biolab footprint: what the new evidence does — and does not — show
Culture12 Jun
Iran's doctors say economic war is the real emergency, demand national 'optimal consumption' doctrine
Culture12 Jun
Mariupol's Fuel Coupons and Crimea's Blockade: Inside the Slow Strangulation of Occupied Ukrainian Territories
Culture12 Jun
Syria's interior ministry signals a widening reckoning inside the former regime's intelligence apparatus
Culture12 Jun
The film Kamal Haasan passed on, and the franchise Rajinikanth built a decade later
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
A Google director's resignation puts the company's Pentagon and climate bets back in the spotlight
Culture12 Jun
Ukrainian firm SkyFall signs strategic memorandum with Airbus at Europe's largest aerospace show
Culture12 Jun
In Geneva, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Quietly Tries to Rebuild the Humanitarian Layer
Culture12 Jun
The EU's migration pact turns a corner — and the hard bargaining starts
Culture12 Jun
When the trailer outruns the film: an Indian director's mea culpa and the marketing logic behind the cut
Culture12 Jun
Salman Khan's Delhi HC move against 'Kala Hiran' puts a single line of dialogue in the dock
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney at 88, still painting: a century spent remaking the picture
Culture12 Jun
Khomeini's afterlife, on film: Tehran re-cuts the founder for a younger republic
Culture12 Jun
Two Bombay High Court orders, two different theories of Indian justice
Culture12 Jun
David Hockney, painter of Californian light, dies at 88
Culture12 Jun
Twenty years of Taylor Swift: how a Pennsylvania songwriter rewired the economics of pop
Culture12 Jun
Hamas accuses Israel of dragging Gaza cease-fire as occupation rhetoric hardens
Culture12 Jun
Moscow's soft-power reboot in Damascus: what the Russian House reopening actually signals
Culture12 Jun
Cairo talks, Gaza violations, and the quiet collapse of another ceasefire framework
Culture12 Jun
Tehran stages Khamenei memorial missile display as the IRGC's aerospace record is repackaged for a post-Khamenei Iran
Culture12 Jun
Hockney at 88, still finding new surfaces: the artist's half-century flirtation with consumer technology
Culture12 Jun
A grass-roots act of political theatre — and the police probe it triggered on Washington's National Mall
Culture12 Jun
338 metres, one tower: the spectacle of Russia Day in Moscow City
Culture12 Jun
Kronstadt showcases two non-nuclear submarine projects aimed at export markets
Culture12 Jun
The governor, the actor, and the audience: Manoj Bajpayee's 'Governor' leans into a familiar Indian political strain
Culture12 Jun
Patrick Schneider's democracy argument puts Deutsche Bahn back at the centre of German politics
Culture12 Jun
A century on, the Harlem Renaissance is still being argued over
Culture12 Jun
Drone racing comes to the Donbas: how Ukraine's front-line pilots are borrowing a civilian hobby
Culture12 Jun
Kenya's Anti-Counterfeit Authority Faces Scrutiny After Nairobi Boutique Raid Raises Questions of Due Process
Culture12 Jun
A Norwegian museum of children's art may be running out of runway
Culture12 Jun
A Name on the Wall, a Court Order, and the Politics of Federal Architecture
Culture12 Jun
Tribeca breaks the AI-film taboo: a 12 June 2026 precedent that reorders festival politics
Culture12 Jun
A tree on set, a panauti for life: Bajpayee's old anecdote about Nawazuddin Siddiqui resurfaces
Culture12 Jun
Iran’s petrol rationing warning lands in a country already rationing trust
Culture12 Jun
Crimea stages exhibition of Sevastopol panorama fragments after reported Ukrainian strike
Culture12 Jun
A Cambridge anthropologist goes live with China's youth: what Alan Macfarlane's CGTN dialogue really signals
Culture12 Jun
A coming Haberman-Swan book revives the Epstein question for a White House that wants it closed
Culture12 Jun
'Escalation Blues': Why a US-Iran De-escalation Reads as a Ceasefire, Not a Settlement
Culture12 Jun
England's cultural hotspots are getting pricier — and the buyers pricing locals out are no longer who you'd expect
Culture12 Jun
Belfast unrest exposes a European pattern of far-right convergence, researcher warns
Culture12 Jun
In Gilan's hills, a festival revives the games Iran's provinces nearly forgot
Culture12 Jun
Moscow's Tehran message of 'continuing to strengthen' ties lands as both capitals recalibrate under Western pressure
Culture12 Jun
Trump declares Iran deal close; Tehran says no final agreement reached
Culture12 Jun
Trump taps Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence, blending Wall Street and spy-shop tenure
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
An Italian gelato school is selling Russia its own national dessert
Culture12 Jun
Raqqa’s ‘Buildex’ exhibition bets on bricks-and-mortar revival in a post-ISIS governorate
Culture12 Jun
'Backrooms' review: Kane Parsons turns internet horror into cinema, with restraint
Culture12 Jun
Six Georgians in a Paris dock: how a Pushkin heist became a transnational rare-books case
Culture12 Jun
IMF chief says Russia has 'lost standing' even as oil windfall masks the damage
Culture12 Jun
A CEO's 16-day digital fast goes viral, and exposes a labour question the corner office has not answered
Culture12 Jun
The Kennedy Center name fight is a quieter test of executive reach — and the arts are the proxy
Culture12 Jun
India's Innovation Deficit: Why a 38% Rally for VA Tech Wabag Can't Outrun a Structural R&D Problem
Culture12 Jun
Shanghai double-header: SIFF and STVF turn Lujiazui into a festival city
Culture12 Jun
Peddi's box-office march past ₹350 crore signals a maturing Telugu theatrical economy
Culture12 Jun
Tehran and Moscow sign a three-year tourism roadmap, betting visitors can outflank sanctions
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
From SEC chair to spy chief: Trump's plan to put Jay Clayton at the top of US intelligence
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
KuCoin's 1.4 million USDT Crypto Cup: a small token war in a larger exchange race
Culture12 Jun
The benchmark gap: why enterprise AI keeps stalling at the demo wall
Culture12 Jun
Deezer's playlist sniffer turns a streaming-industry blind spot into a public map of AI music
Culture12 Jun
Context compression finally works in production: a quiet shift in how AI handles memory
Culture12 Jun
Trump taps former SEC chair Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence
Culture12 Jun
Iran's state-aligned documentary circuit returns to Soleimani, four years on
Culture12 Jun
Stellar Blade's character design row is really a culture-war relay race — and the games press keeps handing off the baton
Culture11 Jun
UFC goes to Foggy Bottom: Rubio and Dana White sign a diplomacy deal
Culture11 Jun
A Russian-aligned film on Krasnoarmeysk, and the information war it joins
Culture11 Jun
Jay Clayton, ex-SEC chair, nominated to lead US intelligence
Culture11 Jun