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There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Trump personally sold U.S. weapons to Russia; the mainstream record instead shows the Trump administration approving and accelerat...
Age-of-consent laws vary widely worldwide, with commonly reported minimums clustering between 14–16 but claimed extremes as low as 11–12 and as high as 21 in some lists; many sources also distinguish ...
Allegations that Israeli doctors or the Israeli military harvested organs from Palestinians date back decades and have multiple strands: admissions that Israeli pathologists once removed organs withou...
At least 20 countries still criminalised suicide or attempted suicide in the early 2020s, with older reviews finding about 25 such states plus around 20 more where Sharia or Islamic law can lead to pu...
Reporting indicates Jeffrey Epstein had multiple financial connections that touched Russian individuals, banks and intermediaries, but the picture is fragmented and contested. Key documents and report...
The governing, long-standing legal framework that gives broad military basing and access rights in is the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement between the United States and , which allows U.S. forces t...
Herodotus does use a Greek word that scholars and later writers identify with “Palestine” (Palaistinê) and applies it to a district between Phoenicia and Egypt; his passages mention “Syrians of Palest...
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 shorthand lexicon—terms such as “cheese pizza,” “pasta,” “hot dog,” and others—was not a single invented codebook but a crowd‑built interpretive layer grafted onto leaked Podesta emails by users o...
If trilogue negotiations finish in April 2026, the EU’s “Chat Control” (CSAR) text could be adopted by the European Parliament and Council immediately thereafter and become law once published in the O...
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 ...
Senior military and national-security officials did not produce a single, public, categorical refusal that "denied" the ability to order a , but multiple reports show advisers and figures pushed cauti...
The Pandora Papers show Volodymyr Zelenskyy and people in his close circle were linked to a web of offshore companies — notably a British Virgin Islands entity, Maltex Multicapital Corp — that held fi...
The in 2026 are concentrated in a few budget an programs (notably and some Eastern European routes) and in (CBI) offers that start in the low six figures, while ultra-low-cost outliers for passports e...
Western corporate presence in Russia today spans thousands of registered firms, large energy and industrial holdings, consumer brands and service companies whose ownership, revenues and fates vary wid...
Germany moved to tighten access to online pornography primarily through enforcement of existing youth-protection rules (the Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media, JMStV) and crimi...
A number of countries set either their unrestricted age of consent or the minimum age for participating in pornography at 18 or higher; sources identify specific countries with ages above 18 or unusua...
Genetic studies show Israeli Jewish populations are neither genetically uniform nor unrelated to neighboring Levantine groups: major analyses find shared Middle Eastern ancestry across Ashkenazi, Seph...
The EES requires most non‑EU short‑stay travellers to have a facial image taken and fingerprints captured on first registration; children under 12 need not provide fingerprints, and long‑stay resident...
If were declared, the effect on an individual bank account would depend on who declares it (state or federal), how broadly powers are exercised, and what financial measures are chosen by authorities; ...