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No credible reporting in the supplied sources shows the UK or the EU have imposed sanctions on the United States; available sources instead document coordinated Western sanctions primarily targeting R...
The war between Ukraine and Russia has competing start dates depending on how you define “the war.” Large-scale fighting that is widely referenced today began with Russia’s full-scale invasion on 24 F...
Multiple indices measure “worst” human‑rights records for different purposes; for worker rights the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) lists Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, ...
A small number of democratic legal systems have judicially recognized pornography as a form of protected expression under constitutional or fundamental‑rights law, but those protections are routinely ...
The war in Ukraine grew out of a decade-long escalation that began with Ukraine’s 2014 political upheaval, Russia’s seizure and annexation of Crimea, and an eight-year low-intensity war in the Donbas ...
Multiple reporting and VPN-provider guides identify a core set of countries that either ban VPNs and Tor outright, or permit only government‑approved “anonymizers”; common names across sources include...
Available reporting and guides consistently say a small group of authoritarian states both block and seek to criminalize tools for anonymity such as Tor — most frequently named are China, Iran, Russia...
A direct Russia–NATO escalation over Ukraine is a real and treated-as-serious risk by officials and analysts, but most expert forecasts in the available reporting place a large-scale NATO–Russia war l...
Initial postwar estimates of Jewish deaths in the Holocaust varied widely and were contested; the provided source-set does not contain a single, authoritative initial figure but highlights — and docum...
The core finding is that : most democracies permit their use, while several authoritarian states either ban or tightly regulate them, with enforcement and penalties varying widely. Reports from 2019 t...
Around 40–43 countries are commonly listed as having bans or near-total prohibitions on pornography; listings compiled from privacy/VPN experts and data aggregators name most Middle Eastern states (Sa...
Countries and U.S. states have pursued two main models for nationwide porn restrictions: outright bans or ISP/site blocks (common in authoritarian states) and age‑verification regimes that compel site...
Most recent official reporting in the provided sources identifies Russia as the single largest country of origin for new immigrants (olim) to Israel in 2024, with 19,091 arrivals (61.4% of immigrants ...
Predictions for "what year World War III could start" are speculative, fragmented, and tied to distinct scenario-based sources rather than empirical inevitabilities; no consensus year emerges from the...
Three credible escalation pathways could draw Russia and NATO into direct confrontation by 2026: inadvertent or “fog-of-war” incidents near NATO borders, deliberate Russian provocations or cross-borde...
Few sources in the provided set explicitly list countries whose constitutions or free‑speech laws expressly protect pornographic expression; reporting instead shows a spectrum: many Western democracie...
ISPs’ legal obligations toward Tor traffic vary sharply by country: in liberal democracies ISPs are generally allowed to carry Tor and are not routinely required to log Tor users, while in censoring s...
Ukraine has not enacted a blanket legal ban on speaking Russian in private or in everyday life, but since 2019 and especially after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion Kyiv has tightened laws and local ...
China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam were the countries most consistently identified as states in 2025; North Korea is usually listed among communist states but officially defines its guiding ideology as , c...
Both the EU and the UK regularly list and sanction serving heads of state and former officials as part of targeted measures — the EU adopts restrictive measures via the Council under the Common Foreig...