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Yayoi Kusama is one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists. She's known for her Instagramable "Infinity Rooms" — immersive installations that use mirrors, lights and reflective surfaces to create the illusion of endless space — as well as her large-scale polka dot sculptures. While her works often appear playful, behind them lies the story of a woman

German Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig on Friday said the government was preparing a new law to criminalize pornographic deepfakes, accelerating efforts to tackle digital violence against women. The move follows a complaint by actress Collien Fernandes, who has spoken out about deepfake pornography and filed a case alleging identity theft and sexualized digital abuse against

Black smoke rises over the Persian Gulf as gas fields, power plants, civilian infrastructure, and military facilities across the region are under attack from Iran. Its government has said it will continue to respond to in kind to US-Israeli attacks on military, civilian and energy producing targets within its territory — even though US President Donald Trump has more

Same-sex marriages performed in other EU countries will now be recognized in Poland, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Friday. The decision marks a landmark moment for LGBTQ+ rights in one of the bloc's most socially conservative countries. The case involved a Polish couple who married in Germany in 2018. When they later moved to Warsaw, officials

The European Union (EU) Parliament recently passed a resolution pushing for the release of Niger's former President, Mohamed Bazoum, by April 2, the day his constitutional mandate was meant to conclude. The EU resolution said that it "strongly condemns the continued arbitrary detention of democratically elected President Bazoum and his wife." The EU further demanded their "immediate and unconditional release," and also called on

Amid thunderous applause, Salman Rushdie took to the stage. There was a standing ovation for the author who narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 2022 and has been under heavy police protection ever since. But as he gave a talk at the LIT:potsdam literary festival, just outside of Berlin, he played the entertainer, dazzling with witty anecdotes and admitting he hasn't

Across history, European depictions of the Amazon have typically presented the South American region as a vast, untouched expanse. Over time, a set of tropes took hold: the rainforest as a "virgin" wilderness; Indigenous life cast as belonging to an earlier era; the whole region suspended outside of time. As a result, a complex, culturally diverse territory has been flattened into an

The long sandy beaches of Turkey's Mediterranean region are very popular with tourists. But there is much more to the country than the coast, and in recent years cultural tours of eastern Anatolia, which boasts many impressive historical sites, have become popular with foreigners, as have diving, mountaineering and hiking holidays in border areas that

U.S. Representative Julie Johnson, Democrat of Texas, speaks during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security in February 2026. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly . Families are having

The tail section of a ballistic missile fired from Iran sticks out of the ground at a vineyard in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on March 20. Amir Levy/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Amir Levy/Getty Images Europe As the war in the Middle East enters its fourth week, President Trump said on Friday the