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Smartmatic has documented historical business links to Venezuela: it was founded by Venezuelan engineers, ran Venezuela’s 2004 referendum system, and for a time owned U.S. vendor Sequoia, prompting a ...
Claims that Smartmatic or Dominion were created by — or directed by — the Venezuelan government to alter U.S. election results rest on a mix of verifiable corporate history and disproven conspiracy cl...
The ICC itself has not opened an investigation charging Donald Trump; available reporting shows recent ICC activity that triggered U.S. sanctions relates to arrest warrants and probes of Israeli leade...
Age-of-consent laws vary widely worldwide, with commonly reported minimums clustering between 14–16 but claimed extremes as low as 11–12 and as high as 21 in some lists; many sources also distinguish ...
Official sources show Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced at least three new, formal trade-related agreements this year: a Canada–Indonesia CEPA announced in September , a Canada–UAE Foreign Inve...
The Trump administration since January 2025 has announced a string of bilateral “reciprocal” trade agreements, frameworks, and fact sheets naming at least the United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, So...
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, ...
The older shooter at the Bondi Beach attack is reported by multiple outlets as having immigrated to Australia from India, entering on a student visa in 1998 and later using an Indian passport on a rec...
High or supratherapeutic doses of ivermectin in humans have been repeatedly linked to (including confusion, hallucinations, ataxia, and decreased consciousness) and (blurred or darkened vision), with ...
Camp Humphreys (South Korea) is identified in multiple sources as the largest U.S. overseas base by area and a leading candidate by population; figures cited include tens of thousands of personnel and...
Smartmatic began as a Venezuela-rooted technology firm that built electronic voting systems and expanded into a global provider of election technology, running or supporting dozens of national and loc...
Australian authorities and national leaders say the December 14, 2025 Bondi Beach attack was a targeted terror strike on a Hanukkah celebration driven by Islamic State (IS) ideology and antisemitism: ...
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 cites a range of estimates for annual plastic entering aquatic systems: United Nations sources and NGOs commonly cite about 11 million tonnes per year into oceans (equivalently “2,...
Australian authorities have publicly identified the two alleged Bondi Beach shooters as Sajid Akram and his son, Naveed Akram , and reporting across multiple outlets links their travel documents and n...
Documents and contemporary reporting show Smartmatic’s founders are Venezuelan nationals (Antonio Mugica, Roger Piñate, Alfredo Anzola) and the company won large Venezuelan contracts beginning in 2004...
Muslim-majority countries do allow Christians to immigrate, but patterns vary by region, legal regime and migration type: Christians made up an estimated 47% of all international migrants as of 2020 a...
Around 40–43 countries are commonly listed as having bans or near-total prohibitions on pornography; listings compiled from privacy/VPN experts and data aggregators name most Middle Eastern states (Sa...
Paid protesting in the United States is not categorically illegal: the First Amendment protects paid speech and assembly in most contexts, but governments can and do regulate time, place, manner, and ...
The Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) Program for fiscal year 2027 (DV‑2027) admits applicants from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States, and the U.S. Department of St...