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A widely circulated photograph claimed to show Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and then-Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi in Palm Beach in 1997 is misidentified: the image in question shows Trump and Epstein...
There is no single, authoritative list of countries that “have no age‑verification or record‑keeping requirements” for adult producers; reporting and industry guides identify a shifting patchwork wher...
Multiple news reports from March through October 2025 document that , but the lists vary and the reasons mix security concerns with objections to U.S. policies, including entry-document rules for gend...
Estonia, Denmark and Spain emerge repeatedly in available reporting as the most advanced EU adopters of national digital identity systems, with and Spain’s DNIe/MiDNI increasingly integrated into smar...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
Paris (and its wider metropolitan area) is repeatedly named in available reporting as the single European city-area with the largest Muslim population — Pew/INSEE-based summaries put Paris metro Musli...
Russia's holdings in the West are dominated by large pools of sovereign and central-bank assets — bonds, bank deposits and correspondent (nostro) accounts — that Western custodians immobilised after F...
Global rankings of “most polyglot” countries depend on how you define polyglot: by number of languages spoken within a country, by the share of people who speak multiple languages, or by official mult...
Most countries that mandate fingerprinting at immigration offer little or no formal "opt-out": the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES) requires four fingerprints and a facial image on first entry to 29 Schen...
European rape laws have trended sharply toward , with France most recently adopting a statutory definition that explicitly requires consent to be “free, informed, specific, prior and revocable.” This ...
Several governments and the U.S. federal administration have taken concrete steps this year to label specific anti-fascist groups as terrorist organisations: Hungary put Antifa Ost on a national terro...
Thunderbird is a free, open-source desktop email client with native OpenPGP and S/MIME support and recent partnerships to streamline encrypted services; it is used by roughly 20 million people and aim...
Poland suffered the largest Jewish losses: roughly three million Jews were killed there during the Holocaust, making it the single biggest national death toll . Major national losses also occurred in ...
The Catholic Church’s response to Nazi persecution was complex and mixed: institutional leaders sometimes protested Nazi attacks on the Church and issued public condemnations (notably the 1937 encycli...
The EU "Chat Control" proposal would force messaging providers to scan private communications for illegal content, a change that could , while potentially favoring large centralized players over feder...
The FBI concluded that 20‑year‑old Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone based on a sprawling digital and physical evidence review: dozens of electronic accounts and devices were seized and analyzed, hund...
Modern "lobotomy" (classic prefrontal leucotomy/transorbital procedures) is effectively abandoned in high-income countries and described in historical terms; contemporary psychosurgery instead uses ta...
England’s Muslim share of the population is about based on the 2021 UK census; that places England/the UK in the mid-range among European countries today, lower than several Muslim-majority or Eurasia...
A clear, centralized inventory of which Schengen countries have published public lists of border crossing points already activated for the (EES) is not available in the reporting provided; however, na...
Human-rights organisations generally oppose state mandates that force women to wear full-cover veils as a form of coercion and also often oppose blanket bans on face‑covering on freedom‑of‑religion gr...