Heritage
WORLD
Iranian Heritage Under Threat From All Sides
As civil unrest spreads across Iranian cities in early January 2026 and President Trump renews warnings about military options, the country's 28 UNESCO World Heritage sites sit vulnerable to dangers from multiple directions.
LIFESTYLE
Italy’s UNESCO Victory: Shared Mediterranean Food Gets a National Label
UNESCO has crowned Italian cooking an intangible treasure, but in a shared Mediterranean kitchen it raises a question: how far can one country claim what ends up on the plate?
EUROPE
Trafficked Antiquities: Where Southern Europe’s Treasures Actually Go
Global police dismantle a long-running antiquities trafficking network, seizing 3,000 looted artefacts worth over €100 million.
EUROPE
Spain Removes Francoist Symbols: History’s Place in Public Space
Spain's plan to catalogue and remove remaining Francoist symbols has reopened a deeper debate about what a society should preserve and what it must release.
BUSINESS
Rails Across Continents: The Orient Express and Hejaz Line Revived
Two legendary railway lines, one in Europe and one crossing the Middle East, are being restored in 2025, proving that infrastructure can tell stories across time.
Popular
Crisis by Design: South Africa’s Migrant Crisis
Mobs in Mossel Bay killed five Mozambicans last weekend and reminded South Africa of its oldest political alibi, blaming the foreigner and sparing the system.
Ghana Warns Travellers as South Africa’s Violence Spreads
Ghana's warning against non-essential travel to South Africa shows that xenophobic violence there is no longer only a domestic crisis but a regional diplomatic problem.
Why Iran Keeps Sending Missiles Into Kuwait
Kuwait's air defences fired again this week, intercepting incoming waves of missiles and drones as Tehran froze nuclear talks and oil prices climbed.
SoftBank Trillion-Dollar AI Bet Against the Energy Crisis
SoftBank wagers €75bn on French nuclear electricity for Europe's largest AI campus, as conflict-driven energy prices threaten the global compute race.
Senegal’s IMF Reckoning Deepens the Crisis
Senegal's political crisis is no longer only about a power struggle at the top, but about who will carry the cost of an IMF-era economic reckoning.
