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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Collective punishment—penalizing a group for acts committed by individuals—has long roots in military practice but is now banned under modern international humanitarian law because it targets the inno...
Multiple reputable sources report that Private John Parr (killed 21 August 1914) and Private George Edwin Ellison (killed 11 November 1918) are buried in St Symphorien (Saint Symphorien) military ceme...
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...
The Entry/Exit System (EES) will collect from non‑EU nationals in the majority of Schengen and EU countries when it starts operations on 12 October 2025, with progressive roll‑out completing by April ...