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Zack Polanski was born David Paulden (full forms in reporting vary; some sources give David Stephen Paulden) on 2 November 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester and changed his name at 18 to reclaim his...
In 1939 the world Jewish population is widely estimated at about 16.6 million, with roughly 9.5 million (57%) living in Europe and about 449,000 in Mandatory Palestine/Israel; Poland alone had about 3...
NATO’s enlargement into the Baltic states was a political decision grounded in the Alliance’s treaty principle and the expressed requests of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; no binding international tr...
The EU imposed an effective bloc-wide ban on broadcasting RT and Sputnik in March 2022, prohibiting EU operators from “broadcasting, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the dissemination” of the...
NATO as an organisation publicly supports Ukraine’s “irreversible path” toward Euro‑Atlantic integration while stopping short of issuing an accession invitation; Allies committed roughly EUR 50bn in 2...
No authoritative, city-level source in the provided material identifies a single European city with the highest murder rate per capita in 2025. The available analyses present conflicting claims—naming...
Several sources show the EU moved to ban RT and Sputnik from broadcasting across the bloc in March 2022 and that national regulators and platforms enforced or supplemented those measures; however repo...
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 ...
Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...
Deutsche Bank was one of the few major lenders willing to extend hundreds of millions in credit to Donald Trump and his companies at a time when the bank was simultaneously implicated in large-scale R...
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...
Latvian law sets the age of majority at 18 and bars persons under 18 from entering “places offering intimate character entertainment,” and prostitution is restricted to adults (age 18) under current r...
As of 2025, most mainstream listings identify five countries that constitutionally remain one‑party, Marxist‑Leninist or socialist states commonly described as “communist”: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos ...
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...
Since ’s , the countries spending the largest shares of GDP on defence have shifted from a few high outliers to a broader cohort of front-runners: leads at roughly 4.1% of GDP, followed by and at abou...
pays the most for in absolute terms and is one of the largest direct contributors to NATO’s common budgets — roughly 15–16% of the alliance’s annual common budget — but that metric understates how ove...
A small but consequential roster of European leaders have publicly discussed their sexuality — including Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Xavier Bettel, Edgars Rinkēvičs and Ana Brnabić — and in the cases docu...
A broad set of major UK advertisers publicly paused or withdrew campaigns that were running on the newly launched GB News in June 2021 — including IKEA, Kopparberg, Grolsch, Nivea, The Open University...
Legal status of porn depicting real siblings (including twins) depends on two separate laws: criminal incest statutes that prohibit sexual activity between close relatives and media/pornography laws t...
Documentary, archaeological and forensic evidence confirms that numerous mass graves containing Jewish Holocaust victims exist across Eastern and Central Europe: from documented death camps such as So...