Music consumption reached an unprecedented scale in 2025, crossing a threshold that once seemed unimaginable. Global streaming activity exceeded five trillion plays in a single year, marking not only a numerical milestone but a shift in how listeners engage with sound, culture, and genre identity.
The United States’ decision to designate several branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations has reignited a decades-old debate across the Middle East and beyond. Long viewed as both a political force and a source of instability, the Brotherhood occupies a complex space between social movement, religious ideology, and militant offshoots.
In the aftermath of October 7, many stories have been told loudly, urgently, and with certainty. Holding Liat moves in the opposite direction. Rather than explaining the hostage crisis through slogans or political alignment, the documentary slows the moment down and asks what happens inside a family when history crashes into private life.
A proposed mosque project in a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was halted this week after the city council voted against a rezoning request that would have allowed construction to move forward. The decision followed weeks of intense public debate marked by fear-driven rhetoric, zoning disputes, and intervention by state officials.
On a cold Sunday morning in Minneapolis, grief moved through church sanctuaries not in silence, but in words, melodies, and collective presence. Just days after the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother fatally shot by a federal immigration officer, worship services across the city became spaces where mourning blended with moral urgency.
Israel has confirmed that Nickolay Mladenov, a Bulgarian diplomat with long-standing experience in crisis mediation, will take operational control of the U.S.-backed peace mechanism established by President Donald Trump for Gaza. The decision places a seasoned international negotiator at the center of a process that remains unstable despite a formal ceasefire.
Yaroslavl, April 4, Interfax - The Kostroma Region's court presidium on Friday invalidated the ban of two rallies and a gay march in Kostroma, court press officer Yulia Medvedeva told Interfax.
Moscow, April 22, Interfax - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he sees the Islamic State terror group (ISIS) as the main enemy of Russia now.
Chelyabinsk, February 19, Interfax - The meteorite fall in the Chelyabinsk Region is a sign of the coming end of times described in the Bible, representative of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) in the region Alexander Pashchenko believes.
Moscow, July 5, Interfax - The problem of a church of the Assumption on the compound of the Russian Embassy in Beijing is being solved as was announced at the meeting of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia with the chief of state administration for religious activities at the PRC State Council Ye Xiaowen that took lace during Moscow religious summit.
