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The Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to a very small number of rare but serious adverse events—most notably vaccine‑induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (TTS, also called VI...
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...
Randomized trials and multiple meta-analyses report that is repeatedly associated with modest, statistically significant reductions in fasting plasma glucose, while effects on hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) a...
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 claim that the Red Cross is a "Rothschild money laundering front" that gives only 5% of donations to charity, spreads incurable diseases, and runs global child and human trafficking rings is not s...
Canada ranks highly on many global measures — for example it tied for #1 in the Country RepTrak/“Most Loved Country” sentiment survey and sits near the top of reputation and freedom rankings — yet it ...
A clear, centralized inventory of which Schengen countries have published public lists of border crossing points already activated for the (EES) is not available in the reporting provided; however, na...
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 ...
Several countries use facial recognition at international borders; the U.S., China and many European states deploy it at airports for arrivals and departures, and some places require it for certain cl...
Sibling marriage is banned in the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions worldwide, but reporting shows a narrow set of exceptions and a larger set of countries that do not criminalize consensual ince...
are expanding surveillance capabilities—new laws, travel data regimes and spyware pilots are visible across member states—but powerful legal limits, active courts and civil-society pushback continue t...
Nominally, the highest reported come from wealthy small countries such as , and in recent compilations, while country-level surveys and trade press also place , and the among the top payers — but comp...
Different definitions of “income” reshape the international map: using the mean (average) lifts countries with extreme top incomes, while the median shows where the typical person sits ; measuring inc...
— both official (central banks/governments) and private (banks, funds, pensions, households) — sit on a material share of foreign-held Treasuries, but exact splits are contested: total foreign holding...
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...
The Human Freedom Index (HFI) 2023 (covering conditions in 2021) rates 165 jurisdictions and gives an average human freedom score of 6.75; the HFI report shows Canada ranking well above the United Sta...
Governments have moved away from treating as traditional offenses by carving out age‑sensitive defenses, lower penalties, diversion programs, and narrow exceptions that distinguish consensual peer-to-...
files, as reported, references German political actors primarily in two ways: private exchanges describing efforts by to promote the far-right and disparaging remarks about then-chancellor ; the publi...
The countries most consistently identified as “” in 2025–26 are small, wealthy democracies in Western and Northern Europe (notably and ), plus a recurring set of peaceful, well-governed democracies su...