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There is no credible reporting in the provided sources that President Trump personally sold U.S. weapons to Russia; the mainstream record instead shows the Trump administration approving and accelerat...
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 ...
No single, authoritative dataset among the provided sources definitively names “the” country that leads the world in arrests for social media posts; available reporting points in different directions ...
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, ...
Barack Obama said variations of the line that the United States is not (or “no longer” or “not just”) a solely Christian nation in at least two well-documented settings: as a U.S. senator on June 28, ...
Mehmet “Dr. Oz” Oz has publicly identified as a and his background and public statements make clear he has a Muslim family and cultural heritage, but his religious practice and political presentation ...
Research across multiple countries shows no consistent causal link between overall immigration and higher crime; several major analyses find either no relationship or lower crime where immigrant share...
Across the recent reporting and studies in 2024–2025, estimates of Muslims residing in Japan vary widely: , with different items attributing growth to migration, tourism, marriage and local conversion...
Russia and Turkey host the largest Muslim populations in Europe in 2025: Russia’s Muslim population is commonly estimated at up to ~16 million and Turkey’s European population (when considering the wh...
Multiple reporting and VPN-provider guides identify a core set of countries that either ban VPNs and Tor outright, or permit only government‑approved “anonymizers”; common names across sources include...
Legal approaches to paid sex vary widely: many liberal Western democracies permit or regulate prostitution (for example Germany and the Netherlands), while others decriminalize sex work at a subnation...
Nestlé is a Swiss multinational that owns a controlling stake in Israeli food company Osem and operates factories and business interests in Israel — facts that have prompted boycotts and political act...
The clearest, sourced claim for social media–related arrests per day comes from UK reporting: The Times’ freedom-of-information finding—cited in Freedom House’s country report—says police were making ...
Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...
Paris (and its wider metropolitan area) is repeatedly named in available reporting as the single European city-area with the largest Muslim population — Pew/INSEE-based summaries put Paris metro Musli...
Donald Trump’s leadership approach is most frequently compared to in U.S. historical parallels and to contemporary strongmen internationally; these comparisons focus on populist rhetoric, confrontatio...
Donald Trump is compared to authoritarian leaders primarily because analysts say his rhetoric and proposed or enacted measures mirror an : consolidating power, targeting opponents, and weakening indep...
Donald Trump’s presidency featured both public praise and conciliatory engagement with leaders widely described as authoritarian, alongside instances where other leaders criticized his policies and ap...
Major active investors in Venezuelan mining and processing projects include the Canadian miner Gold Reserve through the Siembra Minera joint venture with the Venezuelan state (55% Gold Reserve, 45% go...
Manuka honey shows promising antidiabetic effects in animal models — improving pancreatic histology, raising insulin levels, and lowering blood glucose in alloxan-induced diabetic rats . Human researc...