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August 6, 2026

• Boxer Secures Tuvalu’s First Commonwealth Games Medal Without Winning a Bout
• ‘An Intermission is a Must’: Why Greek Cinemas Are Adding a Loo Break to the Odyssey
• Women Behind the Lens: ‘I May Not Be Able to Decide Whose Faces Are Painted on Walls but I Can Make Sure Female Boxers Are Part of That Archive’
• ‘Free up the Ganja’: Rastafarians in Kenya Fight to Decriminalise Marijuana
• Nauru Officially Changes Its Name to Naoero
• ‘Give Respect to Africa and the Bush People’: Mulatu Astatke on Pioneering Ethio-jazz and Honouring His Roots
• ‘The War Leaked Into Every Lesson’: Learning Ukrainian in a Country Under Siege
• The Bassist Who Captured Quebec’s Soul Takes on Its Scientific Future
• A Weekend That Marks a Historical Moment for Black Canadians
• Can Robots Save an Aging Japan?
• ‘Do You Think If I Had a Job I Would Have Gone?’
• ‘Our New Champion’: Philippines Swept up in Tennis Fever After Alex Eala’s Historic Win
• Soy Sauce Refills and Reused Jars: Can Philippines’ Tingi Culture Hold Back Deluge of Plastic Waste?
• ‘A Symbol of Resistance’: the Fight to Save Treehouse Built on No Man’s Land Next to Berlin Wall
• ‘Danger No Longer Only Comes From the Hitmen, but From the State’: the Honduran Farmers Labelled Terrorists for Protecting Their Land
• Liechtenstein’s Archaic Abortion Laws Need to Be Modernised. but a Prince is Standing in the Way
• Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws Are on the Rise Across West Africa, Campaigners Warn
• ‘They Were Told Bikes Were for Men’: How Latin America’s City of Cycling is Breaking Gender Barriers
• How Gen Z Exposed India’s Prime-time Propaganda Machine
• Jerusalem’s Most Important Muslim Religious Site Facing ‘Imminent’ Threat of Israeli Takeover, Says Jordan