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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Consent-based rape laws make the absence of freely given consent the central element of the crime, whereas force/threat-based laws require proof that the perpetrator used violence, threats or that the...
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...
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 European Union sets common minimum standards for civilian firearms acquisition and possession through Directive (EU) 2021/555 and related acts, but member states retain substantial room for nation...
A growing but still limited number of countries and subnational jurisdictions legally permit some form of assisted dying, ranging from clinician-administered euthanasia to physician-prescribed lethal ...
Possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is criminalized in the large majority of countries but penalties vary dramatically—from short custodial terms or fines in some jurisdictions to multi-d...
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...
Several EU member states—most prominently Luxembourg, Malta, Ireland, the Netherlands and Cyprus—have been publicly accused of exhibiting “tax haven” traits by the European Parliament and commentators...
The EU’s judiciary has so far sustained the bloc-wide prohibitions on Russia’s state-backed broadcaster RT: the European General Court dismissed RT France’s challenge and upheld the European Council’s...
Companies and professional intermediaries used Cyprus and other offshore jurisdictions after 2022 to preserve economic links to Russian assets by shifting ownership into opaque vehicles, exploiting ne...