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Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
Multiple indices measure “worst” human‑rights records for different purposes; for worker rights the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) lists Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, ...
Illicit drugs reaching U.S. consumers come largely from Latin America, with cocaine originating primarily in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia and synthetic opioids—most notably fentanyl—linked to production...
Multiple reporting and VPN-provider guides identify a core set of countries that either ban VPNs and Tor outright, or permit only government‑approved “anonymizers”; common names across sources include...
Claims that “white countries are being replaced” trace directly to the debunked Great Replacement and white‑genocide conspiracies, which link demographic change and immigration to an orchestrated cons...
Claims that “Obama brought Muslims to Michigan” typically overstate numbers and conflate refugees’ countries of origin with religion; official resettlement data show 29,062 refugees total were resettl...
Winston Churchill’s role in the 1943 Bengal famine is contested: some studies and commentators argue British wartime policies and Churchill’s decisions helped cause or worsen a famine that killed up t...
Research compilations and meta-analyses consistently identify countries in East and Southeast Asia among those reporting the , but specific rankings vary: recent 2025 compilations name as the smallest...
Dearborn’s immigrant profile has shifted since 2010 from an older Lebanese-dominated Arab population to a more diverse Middle Eastern mix with sizable Iraqi and Syrian arrivals in recent decades; 2020...
Arresting sitting or former national leaders abroad under ICC warrants, Interpol notices or universal‑jurisdiction orders is rare but not unprecedented: Omar al‑Bashir and Muammar Gaddafi were the ear...
Available reporting shows that persecution affects both Christians and Muslims across many countries, but the balance—whether Muslims face higher prosecution rates than Christians—varies by country an...
The pause initially targeted 19 countries identified as “high-risk” in the administration’s ; those countries are , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . The agency says the selection flowed from the ...
Scholars, journalists and commentators cite multiple pieces of evidence that Winston Churchill expressed hostile views about Indians—notably reported remarks such as “I hate Indians. They are a beastl...
Myanmar is now reported by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to be the world’s largest opium producer, overtaking Afghanistan after a sharp fall in Afghan cultivation following the Taliban ban ...
pursued a two-track approach: reversing many restrictions and expanding legal pathways while also deploying new enforcement tools and emergency authorities to curb record migration at the southern bor...
Public compilations of “average penis size by country” consistently place Southeast and East Asian countries among those with the smallest reported averages—examples often cited are Cambodia (~10 cm /...
As of the reporting in these sources, many countries and regions use biometric data in national digital-ID programs — notable examples include India’s Aadhaar, EU entry/exit systems, China and Mexico’...
The Biden administration pursued a dual strategy: reversing many Trump-era restrictions and expanding humanitarian and legal channels while simultaneously confronting record numbers of encounters at t...
A clear minority of states explicitly ban or tightly restrict VPNs; commonly cited countries with full bans or severe controls include North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Belarus and some Gulf states, wh...
In the past two decades, several conflicts beyond Gaza have been credibly described by states, international bodies, scholars or human-rights groups as — notably (), the in , the Uyghur campaign in , ...