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Different compilations of 2024-era data point to very different “highest” and “lowest” rape‑per‑capita rankings because national legal definitions, reporting practices and recent law changes make dire...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that documents “massive human bones found beneath African salt flats”; the major, well‑publicized troves of hominin remains in southern and eastern Africa...
The United States cannot be cleanly ranked against other countries for “rape in 2025” because ; available 2024–2025 analyses show the US has a substantial burden of sexual violence but is not consiste...
The most recent public accounting shows funds under the were directed to a set of high-profile recipients tied to 2024–25 emergency and security packages — notably , , and — while longstanding disburs...
Since 2015, public reporting does not show states (subnational governments) signing formal bilateral public‑health MOUs with foreign national governments; instead, the recent wave of public, state‑to‑...
Multiple reports and investigations say Israel-linked intelligence and private cyber‑surveillance firms have been implicated in spying activities across Africa — with specific African governments and ...
Donald Trump was reported in January 2018 to have used the phrase "shithole countries" about Haiti and several African nations during a White House meeting about immigration, and the reports provoked ...
Major -era actions—most prominently the 2018 enforcement at the southern border and the 2017 on several majority-Muslim countries—were widely labeled by civil‑rights groups, scholars, Democratic lawma...
China is a dominant economic partner for many African states—its firms have invested roughly US$400 billion on the continent since 2003 , and Beijing is now the largest bilateral creditor to Africa . ...
A number of African governments have been reported to use Israeli-made cyber-surveillance tools and spyware — with reporting and research naming Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Z...
There are multiple, documented allegations that Israeli-origin spyware and intelligence activities have been used across several African countries, with reporting and research naming nations such as M...
Reported claims about which European country had the lowest rape rate in 2024 are because data definitions, reporting practices, and coverage vary; the documents supplied name different low-rate count...
Since 2020, multiple indices and reports point to a small set of countries that in democratic performance, most consistently named are Botswana, South Africa, Portugal, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Jo...