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Beirut

Capital and largest city of Lebanon

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Oct 7, 2025
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What are the most permissive countries for pornography production?

Dubai, Lebanon and parts of the Western internet ecosystem are portrayed as among the most permissive places for pornography production, but that permissiveness is uneven: Dubai’s growth in adult-cont...

Jan 14, 2026
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What evidence exists of Hezbollah’s operational activities in Venezuela and the Tri‑Border Area since 2015?

Open-source reporting and government documents since 2015 consistently identify two geographic hubs—the Tri‑Border Area (TBA) of Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay and Venezuela—where Hezbollah-linked networks...

Feb 6, 2026

What influenced Burkina Faso's foreign policy towards Israel under Thomas Sankara?

’s stance on was driven less by a bilateral dispute than by a wider revolutionary worldview: , Pan‑African solidarity with , and moral condemnation of what he perceived as -backed Israeli aggression, ...

Jan 20, 2026

What happened to the plane TWA Flight 847

TWA Flight 847, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 en route from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, was seized minutes after takeoff by armed Lebanese Shiite hijackers and forced on a 17-day odyssey that...

Jan 4, 2026

Which presidents deployed troops without explicit congressional authorization after 1973?

Since the War Powers Resolution of 1973, presidents of both parties have repeatedly deployed U.S. forces or ordered military strikes without an explicit new declaration of war or fresh congressional a...

Dec 3, 2025

Which Pope Leo reportedly commented on Donald Trump and when did he speak?

Pope Leo XIV — the first U.S.-born pope, elected in May 2025 — publicly urged the Trump administration not to try to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by military force during an inflight pre...

Nov 28, 2025

israeltagets civilians

UN and major news organizations report that Israeli strikes in Lebanon since the ceasefire of 27 November 2024 have killed civilians — the U.N. human rights office says it has verified at least 127 ci...