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Contemporary reporting shows a string of foiled and prosecuted plots aimed at Christmas markets and gatherings in Europe in 2025, with several arrests tied to Islamist-motivated plots or individuals d...
The best-supported, widely accepted estimate is that about six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered in the Holocaust; major institutions such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and ...
Zack Polanski was born David Paulden (full forms in reporting vary; some sources give David Stephen Paulden) on 2 November 1982 in Salford, Greater Manchester and changed his name at 18 to reclaim his...
Historians agree that approximately six million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust, a figure established and memorialized by major institutions including the United States Holocaust Memo...
Estimates in the available reporting put the global Jewish population on the eve of World War II at roughly 15.3–16.6 million, with many authoritative accounts centering on figures near 16.5–16.6 mill...
Historical estimates place the Jewish death toll in the Holocaust at about six million, a figure supported by major institutions such as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem and reflected...
In 1939 the world Jewish population is widely estimated at about 16.6 million, with roughly 9.5 million (57%) living in Europe and about 449,000 in Mandatory Palestine/Israel; Poland alone had about 3...
U.S. forces in Europe are funded through a mix of regular Department of Defense appropriations and targeted programs such as the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI), which had a FY2025 request of $2....
Jeffrey Sachs’s international work has generated intense debate: critics charge that his rapid, top‑down economic prescriptions and high‑profile interventionist projects produced harmful dependence, s...
Latest international datasets show a large numerical gap between reported rape rates for the United Kingdom and Poland, but that gap largely reflects differences in definitions, recording practices an...
Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...
Western and European intelligence agencies publicly tied a series of incendiary parcel incidents and arrests in 2024 to a suspected Russian sabotage campaign that tested methods for placing explosives...
Major institutions and historians commonly estimate that roughly six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust, a figure based on multiple methods including pre‑ and postwar population acco...
Estonia, Denmark and Spain emerge repeatedly in available reporting as the most advanced EU adopters of national digital identity systems, with and Spain’s DNIe/MiDNI increasingly integrated into smar...
Holocaust deniers repeatedly assert that Nazi “gas chambers” either did not exist or were not used to kill people — arguments advanced via pseudo‑scientific reports (notably the Leuchter Report) and p...
The collected analyses consistently report that Roblox CEO David Baszucki was born in Canada and later became a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, but they differ on whether his family background is...
Countries that lack explicit statutory age‑verification rules for pornography typically rely on a mix of self‑regulation by platforms, analogies to other age‑restricted goods, technical blocking or ce...
Germany is rapidly expanding its defence posture in response to perceived Russian threats: Berlin plans a defence budget of about €108.2 billion in 2026 and is executing large-scale contingency planni...
There is for prisoners in the United States; federal guidance exists but is not binding on state and local systems, and documented meal energy provision varies widely across facilities . The U.S. Bure...
Between 1933 and 1939 the global Jewish population peaked near 16.6 million, while Europe alone held about 9.5 million Jews in 1933—more than 60% of world Jewry—concentrated heavily in Eastern Europe ...