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The letter President Donald Trump sent to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre — first published by PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin and widely reprinted — contains a blunt opening linking Trump’s ...
Joseph Goebbels did not receive a Nobel Prize; he was never a laureate. What is historically documented is that Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, gave his physi...
Claims that “Swedes are getting dumber” rest on a shaky mix of partial data, contested international rankings, and long‑running research on a so‑called reverse Flynn effect in Scandinavia; serious aca...
Reporting is mixed: several outlets initially listed Canada among NATO partners sending personnel to Denmark’s Greenland exercise, Operation Arctic Endurance, but official Canadian defence spokespeopl...
Donald Trump has a long record of public remarks repeatedly cited as racist by journalists, lawmakers, and civil-rights groups. Key, well-documented examples include his characterization of Mexican im...
No — the widely reported document was a private message sent to ’s prime minister, , not a letter addressed to ; it was, however, circulated widely and triggered a storm of reaction from Danish and ot...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve ...
Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States from a Kenyan refugee camp in March 1995 as a 12-year-old after fleeing Somalia’s civil war; her family was part of broader refugee resettlement in the mid‑1990...
Most reputable recent estimates place Europe's Muslim population near 45–46 million in 2025, roughly 6% of the continent, up from about 19.5–24.9 million (3.8–5%) around 2000–2010 depending on definit...
The Nobel Committee evaluates Peace Prize candidates primarily against the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will — who “has done the most or the best” work for fraternity between nations, reduction/abolition o...
A consistent pattern in the research reviewed is that male same-sex (gay) marriages tend to have the lowest divorce rates, while female same-sex (lesbian) marriages show the highest dissolution risk; ...
Contemporary reporting and health references show that classical frontal lobotomy (including transorbital "icepick" procedures) fell out of mainstream practice decades ago and is described as "no long...
The countries described in the supplied analyses pursue — a point reinforced by multiple 2024–2025 reviews that call the Nordic approach a marriage of high social spending, active labor-market institu...
U.S. forces remain widely dispersed worldwide: publicly available tallies put more than 160,000 active-duty personnel stationed outside the United States as of mid‑2025, and the Pentagon continues to ...
Most countries criminalize some or all activities related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but definitions and whether simple possession is covered vary widely; major reviews and databases show ...
Nick Schifrin, PBS NewsHour foreign correspondent, published the text of a letter attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre — posting the text publicly on ...
Hugo Chávez’s government seized or nationalized foreign oil assets in multiple waves, most prominently in 2007 when it reasserted state control over Orinoco heavy‑oil projects operated by major intern...
Germany criminalized sexual acts with animals in a 2013 reform that clarified and tightened earlier rules after decades of inconsistent law (sources note a 2013 change) . Denmark banned bestiality by ...
Greenland is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark: its people exercise broad internal self-government while Denmark retains responsibility for the realm’s sovereignty, defen...
Child pornography is illegal in most countries, but laws, definitions, and enforcement vary widely: research cited in Wikipedia and NGO reports finds child pornography unlawful in a majority of states...