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Claims that Croatians (or the WWII-era Independent State of Croatia) turned people into soap are tied to the horrific Jasenovac camp and wartime myths; sources note a "soap making plant" is visible at...
Recent reporting shows Brigitte Macron attended a public theatre performance at the Folies Bergère on December 7, 2025 with her daughter Tiphaine Auzière and was filmed backstage using a derogatory sl...
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 ...
Available reporting shows mixed evidence about how well recent vaccines protect against currently circulating influenza viruses: Southern Hemisphere 2025 interim data suggest roughly 50% reduction in ...
The EU's new Entry/Exit System (EES) will require from U.S. travelers entering the Schengen area, replacing passport stamps with biometric checks and electronic records, and will be rolled out from Oc...
Himalayan pink salt and other non‑iodized specialty salts typically contain compared with mandated iodized table salt, so they are not reliable sources to prevent iodine deficiency; public‑health prog...
United Nations and European statistical projections converge on a stark point: without migration Europe’s working‑age population contracts substantially over coming decades, while positive net migrati...
The 2025–2026 influenza A(H3N2) vaccine’s protection against hospitalization was shaped primarily by how well the vaccine strain matched circulating viruses, by antigenic drift producing the new subcl...
Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 66 counts including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Kosovo, Croatia ...
Seasonal updates to H3N2 components of influenza vaccines are driven by coordinated global surveillance, laboratory antigenic and genetic analyses, and formal recommendations by international and nati...
The EU’s Entry/Exit biometric policy requires most non-EU visitors, including Americans, to provide , creating new privacy considerations and practical hurdles for travelers; refusal can result in den...
Local collaborators played demonstrable, varied roles in mass shootings and deportations across occupied Eastern Europe: in Lithuania and Ukraine, police battalions, auxiliary units, nationalist milit...
Several interwar fascist movements—notably early French fascist parties, the British Union of Fascists in its early years, and Mussolini’s Italy before 1938—either rejected or downplayed racial antise...
Mate Rimac is a Croatian-born entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding Rimac Automobili and building an electric-vehicle and component group that now includes Bugatti Rimac and Rimac Technolo...
Between 2023 and 2025 a small but growing set of live pilots and proofs‑of‑concept using ICAO’s Digital Travel Credential (DTC) specifications were publicly reported, with Aruba, the Netherlands, Finl...
Yes — some Ukrainian oligarchs do own luxury yachts, and the wartime spotlight has both revealed specific vessels tied to figures like Viktor Medvedchuk and Ihor Kolomoisky and accelerated efforts by ...
U.S. and international authorities updated seasonal vaccine strain selections for the 2025–2026 respiratory season: influenza recommendations moved several H3N2 strains and—across multiple jurisdictio...
Laboratory and surveillance reports show that antibody responses elicited by the 2024–25 H3N2 vaccines were antigenically weaker against some circulating viruses that season, while the 2025–26 vaccine...
Same-sex marriage is legally recognized in 38 countries as of 2025 and covers roughly 1.5 billion people worldwide, while legal and political fights continue, especially in the United States where the...
A 2024 academic mapping found 20 European countries had adopted consent-based rape laws as of May 2023, and reporting shows several more states moved in 2024–2025 (notably France, Czechia and Poland) ...