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Smotrich Attributed Remarks on Gaza Ruins and Palestinian Nationhood

Posts attributed to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich relay remarks on Gaza, Palestinian identity, religion and the Israeli economy.

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On 28 August 2026 the US president told Axios he is "not at all concerned" about a Russian attack on a NATO member, the same day the Kremlin…

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Culture28 Aug

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Culture28 Aug

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Three Indian Express Telegram posts published within seconds of each other on 28 August 2026 put Pune's police chief, PMPML's bus map, and a Devdutt…

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Culture28 Aug

Gujarat's Chandipura toll climbs to 28 as the same news cycle turns on a viral meme and a composer

Two of every three Gujarat children confirmed with the Chandipura virus have died, according to The Indian Express, taking the toll to 28. Hours…

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Culture27 Aug

Yayoi Kusama, who turned a lifetime of visions into a half-century of dots, dies at 97

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist whose polka-dotted canvases, mirrored infinity rooms and pumpkin sculptures carried her name into global popular…

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Culture27 Aug

Magnolia drops trailer for John Wilson's first feature, 'The History of Concrete'

Magnolia Pictures released the trailer for John Wilson's first feature, 'The History of Concrete,' on 27 August 2026, a New York-set essay on the…

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Culture27 Aug

An old clip, a new pile-on: Geetu Mohandas and the grammar of online attention

On 27 August 2026, The Indian Express flagged a resurfaced interview clip of director Geetu Mohandas as her film Toxic, starring Yash, came under…

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Culture26 Aug

Dolly Parton, the east Tennessee songwriter who built a country-music export machine, dies at 80

Parton died on 25 August 2026 at 80 after a brief battle with cancer confirmed by her publicist, ending a six-decade run that reshaped what country…

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Culture25 Aug

Paul Thomas Anderson takes Cameron Winter from Carnegie Hall to cinemas

Paul Thomas Anderson’s concert film of Geese frontman Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall will receive a North American roadshow release through Janus…

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Culture25 Aug

Ali G rides again: Sacha Baron Cohen's London bad boy returns, with Amazon MGM booking a 23 October…

Amazon MGM unveiled the first official trailer for 'Ali G: Who Iz I?' on 25 August 2026, with IndieWire's same-day write-up confirming a 23 October…

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Culture25 Aug

CIA Director's Moscow stop lands as Russia moves on a new mobilisation cycle

CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Moscow on 25 August 2026 for an unannounced meeting with Russian counterparts, per CBS reporting relayed by…

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A $100,000 visa, a cartoon, and the architecture of US preference

A proposed six-figure H-1B fee lands the same morning a Yemeni cartoonist skewers American double standards. The pairing says more about who gets to…

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Culture25 Aug

The Meme Is the Message

A single social-media account can turn glyphosate, obesity drugs and global demographics into three different claims about who gets to interpret…

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Culture24 Aug

Bonnaroo takes 2027 off, citing storm damage to its Manchester grounds

The Tennessee camping-music festival will skip 2027 to let its storm-damaged Manchester grounds recover, with a 2028 return on the books.

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Culture23 Aug

A demographic gallery, and the questions it quietly raises

Two posts shared on X this week point readers to a world-demographics gallery and a new NEJM Voices essay. Monexus reads them as a prompt, not a…

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Culture23 Aug

Three Indian Express pieces, one screen-economy cluster

Three Indian Express pieces surfaced within an hour on 23 August 2026, a father-daughter meme exchange, a Pune-area auto hub warning, and a former…

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Culture23 Aug

A former Indian child actor says he was abused on set. The silence is what he wants to talk about

Former child actor Ravi Valecha has told The Indian Express he was sexually abused while working as a child in the Indian film industry. The…

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Culture23 Aug

Toxic’s release-day narrative shifts from demand to safety

Toxic crossed Rs 27 crore in advance booking as its promotional event drew conflicting injury counts, while Yash defended the film’s portrayal of…

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Culture23 Aug

Bonnaroo's 2027 pause makes the grounds the story

Bonnaroo will not hold its festival in 2027, with storm damage to the grounds cited as the reason for a planned return in 2028. The hiatus puts the…

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Culture22 Aug

An Indian Express morning slate: a Telugu star's birthday, an Adivasi history question

Between 03:52 and 06:52 UTC on 22 August 2026, The Indian Express pushed three unrelated headlines: a Chiranjeevi retrospective, an essay asking who…

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A German tariff letter and a rough Chinese animation point at the same European anxiety

Reuters and Investing.com report a German state-level letter asking the European Commission to consider tariffs on Chinese hybrid vehicles. On the…

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Culture22 Aug

Bonnaroo Will Sit Out 2027 So Its Tennessee Grounds Can Recover

Pitchfork reported on 21 August 2026 that Bonnaroo will take 2027 off so its storm-damaged Tennessee grounds can recover before a 2028 return, a…

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Culture22 Aug

120 chandeliers, one labour-law verdict, 352 boxes of apples: an Indian news morning in three registers

The Indian Express's morning wire carried a Sabyasachi flagship framed as a 'museum of memories,' a Supreme Court explainer on defining 'industry'…

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Culture21 Aug

Tehran puts a number on its private-sector tourism pitch: 3,800 projects, five incentives, bazaars to come

Iran's cultural-heritage ministry told state media on 21 August 2026 that the private sector is mid-build on roughly 3,800 tourism projects and that…

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  9. Yash's 'Toxic' takes an 18 in Britain, and an Indian Express column puts caste back on…19 Aug
  10. Inside the Gnessin Summer School's penultimate week18 Aug
  11. GTA 6's second major leak in a week puts Rockstar on the back foot18 Aug
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  16. A Russian summer of music: Sonatrip, a lost Mozartean, and a record-breaking conservatory17 Aug
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  18. When the body keeps the score: a Jerusalem ward, a Kenyan photograph, and a long-running…16 Aug
  19. Vir Sanghvi's pots-and-kettles post, and what it does not name16 Aug
  20. Vadnagar's heritage autorickshaws meet Modi's birthday cycle16 Aug
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