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Irish Parliament Votes to Remove Three-day Abortion Wait ‘I Didn’t Expect It to Be so Controversial’: the Japanese Mayor Who Took Maternity Leave Alleged Ice-cream Cartel in Japan Investigated as Sweltering Summer Looms ‘We Weren’t Allowed to Meet Oasis!’: Japanese Punk Band Otoboke Beaver on Fun, Feminism and Famous Fans Sri Lanka Sees ‘Alarming’ Rise in Cybercrime as Scam Networks Relocate From South-east Asia ‘Then the Firing Started’: the Soweto Uprising Remembered 50 Years on Free as a Bird: the Mexicans Redefining Gender – in Pictures ‘The Beauty of the Useless’: Spain’s Super-thin Restaurant Napkins Are Throwaway Art Treasures ‘The Birds Will Fly Away’: Can Albania’s Flamingo Revolution Keep Its Wetlands Free From Trumps and Tourists? Albanians Protest Against Another Luxury Development on Adriatic Coast Pacific Nation of Nauru Wants to Change Its Name as It Moves on From Colonial Past Norway’s Monarchy Once Seemed Like a Fairytale – Recent Crises Have Exposed Its Dark Underbelly Tortured, Humiliated and Killed: the Women Who Disappear Into Myanmar’s Prisons Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan Teaches Its Citizens How to Fly Drones They Were Forced Into Marriage and Abused. Now Women Facing Exploitation in China Have a Glimmer of Hope ‘Beautiful Moment’: Fans of New Zealand and Iran Draw on World Cup Fervour Together Philippines Picks up the Pieces After Strongest Earthquake in Decades Starbucks Korea to Temporarily Shut All Stores for History Lesson After Bungled Coffee Promotion ‘Stop Pretending we Don’t Exist’: Seoul Fills Its Streets With Pride Colour Return to Rwanda: the Woman Dedicating Her Life to Ending Gender-based Violence ‘I Don’t Want Europe to Fail the Way Turkey Did’: Ece Temelkuran on Fascism, Death Threats and Life in Exile ‘Period Tax’ on Sanitary Products to Be Abolished, Says Pakistan Minister Swiss Voters Reject Proposal to Cap Population at 10 Million What Message is Pauline Hanson Sending to Multicultural Australia? Dutch Children Are Unusually Happy and Healthy. is It Because of This Walking Ritual? ‘The Sea Took Everything Away’: How Nigeria’s ‘Happy City’ is Disappearing Beneath the Waves Africa Beats Africa: How Diaspora Talent Helps Define the World Cup Japan is Running Out of Royals. Are More Men the Answer? Japan Pushes Back on Trump’s Anime Posts

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June 11, 2026

• ‘Now People Stop to Ask Their Names and Even Stroke Them’: Nigerians Embrace Dogs as Pets
• Is Switzerland Tired of Prosperity? I Can Think of No Other Reason for Our Next Foolish Referendum
• ‘Extreme Fear’ Among Immigrants as Backlash Sweeps South Africa
• ‘Good Lord, What a Smell’: Can Brazil’s Biggest City Save a Vital Source of Water From Sewage, Bacteria and Organised Crime?
• ‘Not in Our Best Moment’: Strikes and Tension Temper World Cup Buzz in Mexico City
• Tears and Catharsis as Kyiv Premieres Opera About Ukrainian Children Abducted by Russia
• What Does the War Mean for the People of Lebanon?
• Letter From Kyiv: I Marvel at How People Deal With Daily Life Under Putin’s Cruel Air War
• Air-raid Alerts and Frontline Memoirs: Kyiv Hosts Literary Festival Amid War
• Trump Targeting Immigrants From Countries Hit Most by Climate Shocks
• ‘I Fear People Will Go to War Over Water’: as Wells Run Dry, Farmers Struggle to Survive in Bangladesh
• ‘Ugly in a Beautiful Way’: Denmark’s Mullet Championship Celebrates Divisive Hairstyle
• How Campaigners Beat Industrial Farming in Denmark’s ‘Pig Election’
• Being a Woman in China is Getting Harder. but in Chengdu, Female-only Spaces Are Flourishing
• China Wants to Suppress Independent Cinema. but Young Film-makers Are Undaunted by Red Lines
• ‘She Gave the Young a Chance’: Pioneering Activist’s Battle for Black Equality in Manchester
• The Vanishing of Nicolás Maduro: How the Former Dictator is Being Erased From Venezuela
• Man Shot Dead During Protest Against Proposed US Ebola Quarantine Facility in Kenya
• ‘To Them a Power Line is a Line of Trees’: Costa Rica Moves to Protect Howler Monkeys From Electrocution
• ‘Waste Colonialism’: Fiji Says No to Australian Billionaire’s Incineration Plan
• Blackouts, Hyperinflation, Dissent: Iran Considers Perilous Prospect of Peace
• In Iran the World Cup Used to Trigger Joy on Our Streets. It Feels Very Different Now
• Dina Nayeri: Marjane Satrapi Brought Iranian Women Like Me Out of Hiding
• ‘The Patients Scattered’: How Gun Crime Cuts Off Healthcare for South Africa’s Poorest
• Japanese Manga Fans Urge Trump to Stop Using Characters in His Online Posts
• Izakaya Economics: Japan’s Traditional Night Out Fights Tooth and Ale for Survival
• How a Starbucks Marketing Stunt Spiralled Into Mass Boycotts in South Korea
• ‘We Are Familiar Faces’: Are Local Peacemakers the Answer to Nigeria’s Bandit Crisis?
• ‘This May Be Our Last Chance’: Rising Sea Levels Threaten Kiribati’s World Cup Dream
• ‘Not Just a Singer’: Argentinians Queue for Miles to Mourn Biggest Rockstar Most of World Has Never Heard of
• Powerful Earthquake in Southern Philippines Leaves at Least 37 Dead
• On Patrol With Tokyo's New Litter Police
• The Priests Revered in the Land of Five Genders

June 4, 2026

• The Man Turning the Cockroach Into a Gen-Z Movement in India
• It’s a Bone of Contention: Mexico and Brazil Are Arguing Over Dogs
• ‘Fractured’ Society – but New Zealand’s Young Have Hope Across Difference and Distance
• What the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s New Greek Epic Entirely Devoid of Greeks?
• A Bird Has Better Protection Than an Afghan Woman. Welcoming the Taliban to Europe is a Slap in the Face
• ‘The Story of Hong Kong is the Sound of It’: the Cross-cultural Joy of the City’s Cantopop Music
• Argentina’s ‘European’ Self-image Under Renewed Scrutiny After Racist Incidents in Brazil
• Mozambique Says Five Citizens Killed in ‘Xenophobic Attacks’ in South Africa
• The US Keeps Finding Ways to Justify State Violence Against Cuba
• From Barren Shores to Green Oases: How a Surfer Looking for Shade Ended up Transforming Costa Rica’s Coastline
• Australia Must Engage With Solomon Islands With Mutual Respect. It’s About so Much More Than Keeping Beijing at Bay
• ‘I Want My Life Back’: Drugs Shortages Lay Bare Economic Impact of Diamond Crash in Botswana
• UN Adds Israel and Russia to Blacklist for Sexual Violence in Conflict
• ‘We Don’t Have Another Country to Run To’: Kenyans Fear US Plan for Ebola Quarantine Site
• What Can the Dutch Teach the UK About How to Tackle the Youth Jobs Crisis?
• Peace Fails If It is Not Defended. the UN’s Peacekeepers Cannot Do This Alone
• Behind the Historic Efforts to Transport Bayeux Tapestry From France to UK
• ‘They Take You Out of Life, Out of Time’: a Journey Into Spain’s Astonishing Cave Paintings
• France Overturns Law Classing People as Property – 178 Years After It Abolished Slavery
• Feeding the Future of France: Rollout of €1 Meals an Attempt to Help Struggling Students
• People ‘Panicking’ as Ghana Passes Sweeping Law Criminalising LGBTQ+ Activity
• My Father, the German Refugee Who Fought the Nazis as a ‘Secret Listener’
• Sixty Thousand Love Letters and Counting: Volunteers Help Sift Through Vast German Trove of Devotion
• Germany’s Embattled Nightlife Scene Welcomes Plan to Reclassify Clubs
• How the Death of Yves Sakila Exposes Ireland’s Deeply Rooted Racism Problem
• What is Killing Sumatra’s Elephants? the Battle to Save One of Our Rarest Animals
• Party Like a Swede! a Guide to Celebrating Midsummer
• The World Capital of French Fries Has a Problem: Too Many Potatoes
• How Curry Shops Got Caught in Japan’s Immigration Crackdown
• In Taiwan, Chinese-Born Wives Are a Focus of Infiltration Fears
• With Stephen Curry Deal, Li-Ning of China Shoots for Global Sneaker Spotlight
• Overlooked No More: Nancy Sheung, Whose Camera Captured Women on Their Own Terms
• How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years
• Why Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Still Fighting