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As of 2025, five states continue to operate under that their governments describe with communist or socialist terminology: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. Other countries contain constitu...
Current lists of “socialist” or “communist” countries mix constitutional language, ruling-party ideology, and economic practice, producing inconsistent inventories. The primary claims in provided anal...
At least 20 countries still criminalised suicide or attempted suicide in the early 2020s, with older reviews finding about 25 such states plus around 20 more where Sharia or Islamic law can lead to pu...
There is no single universally accepted list of “democratic socialist” countries; definitions vary between constitutional wording, party ideology, and policy practice . Some sources list five one‑part...
The allegation that “Zohran Mamdani [is a] terrorist” is unsupported by available reporting and appears to be a politically motivated smear rooted in Islamophobic framing rather than documented crimin...
Several sources compiled in the prompt identify a set of states in 2025 whose ruling parties describe themselves as *socialist* or *communist*, but the lists diverge because —from formal constitutiona...
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’...
High‑quality randomized trials have largely failed to show clinically meaningful benefits of ivermectin for COVID‑19: several large, double‑blind, placebo‑controlled trials found no reduction in hospi...
Russia’s social media censorship in 2024–2025 ranks among the most restrictive outside of China, Iran and North Korea, with expanding legal tools targeting platforms, VPNs and independent outlets and ...
Since 2000, the deadliest non‑Islamist extremist violence has come from three broad categories: far‑right/white‑supremacist movements (notably in the United States and Europe), ethno‑nationalist and s...
Multiple national immunization schedules were revised for 2025–2026 across high‑ and low‑income settings, driven by new WHO/SAGE guidance, country‑level safety or programmatic data, and updates from a...
Across the reporting, the “least divorced” depends on how the population is defined: by age, race/ethnicity, geography, or the metric used. Internationally, small-data sources put Sri Lanka at the low...
The meaning of "socialist democracy" splits into at least three usable categories: one-party, Marxist–Leninist states that self-identify as socialist; pluralist democracies that include "socialism" in...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that specifically identifies "Venguwala" as a named origin, hub, or point of egress for drugs; available coverage instead highlights larger patterns—coast...
Ukraine reports it has identified more than 18,000 foreign nationals attached to Russian forces during the war and holds prisoners from 37 countries, but independent verification of the full tally is ...
Social-democratic mixed economies — markets plus large welfare states and regulation — are best exemplified by the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland), which combine private o...
You asked “During what year IN” — available search results do not include that exact question or clarify what “IN” refers to; sources instead show multiple December 2025 news items and timelines (e.g....
Audits and watchdog reports have repeatedly flagged taxpayer costs tied to presidential and presidential-family travel — notably a 2019 GAO review finding gaps in agency reporting on costs connected t...
Estimates of the world’s population by broad regional ancestry are not routinely produced by major demographic authorities; available global totals place the world population at just over 8.2 billion ...
You named India, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, China and South Korea; authoritative definitions and government lists show the Indo‑Pacific is much larger — counts range from roughly 40 to more ...