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Dec 13, 2025
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Ukraine is forcibly snatching people off the street (“busification”) to send them to war

Reporting and research show “busification” is a widely used Ukrainian term for practices in which men are stopped in public and taken to recruitment centres — sometimes forcibly and sometimes without ...

Feb 4, 2026

How can the WikiLeaks Podesta email archive be searched for specific keywords or document IDs?

email archive is a matter of and their mirrors, downloading archived batches for local full-text search, and cross-checking document IDs and results against independent indices and to avoid misattribu...

Jan 30, 2026

I'm impressed how quickly the movement for Rojava organised in few days. Since when are Kurdish in the diaspora? There are 40 million?

The Kurdish population is large but contested: scholarly and institutional estimates range roughly from about 20–45 million people worldwide, with many sources centering on 30–40 million as a common f...

Jan 14, 2026

How have Deutsche Bank’s internal risk reviews and U.S. regulatory probes affected its willingness to lend to politically exposed persons?

Deutsche Bank’s internal risk reviews and a string of U.S. regulatory probes have made the lender markedly more cautious about politically exposed persons (PEPs), tightening onboarding and monitoring ...

Dec 9, 2025

Reconstruction has not begun in Balenko building hit by Russian missile in February; residents face winter in damaged apartments

Residents of apartment buildings damaged by Russian strikes face slow, uneven reconstruction across Ukraine as national and international plans struggle to meet urgent housing needs; the joint RDNA4 p...