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President Donald Trump did announce that he planned to host senior Taliban leaders at Camp David and in Washington in September 2019, then abruptly cancelled those meetings after a Taliban attack; con...
Since 2007–2010 China provided Venezuela roughly $50–60 billion in loan‑for‑oil and credit‑line arrangements that were repaid largely in crude shipments and equity stakes in Orinoco projects (China De...
Kazakhstan formally announced it would accede to the Abraham Accords on November 6–7, 2025; prior to that the original 2020 signatories were the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain (September 15, 2020), ...
Debate over a “one world government” mixes academic ideas, international reform efforts, and public forums that promote global cooperation—none of which the provided sources say amounts to a single gl...
The claim that “chemtrails” are chemical or biological agents being secretly sprayed from aircraft is repeatedly described in major reporting and scientific reviews as a long‑debunked conspiracy theor...
Over the past decade political polarization between Democrats and Republicans has intensified in some dimensions—especially among political elites and in congressional voting—while public-level trends...
Ethnic Ukrainians formed a majority in Donbas according to pre-war censuses — about 57–58% in Donetsk and Luhansk versus roughly 38–39% ethnic Russians — yet Russian became the dominant urban language...
Russia has responded to Ukrainian strikes on refineries this year by repairing damaged units, restarting idled spare units elsewhere, and relying on redundancy in the system to limit output losses to ...
Donald Trump’s foreign policy mixes isolationist instincts—tariffs, skepticism of alliances, and disengagement from multilateral institutions—with episodic hawkish actions and unilateral military stri...
State legislatures across the U.S. have introduced a wave of proposals restricting solar geoengineering in 2024–25, with reporting that between “over 16” and 34 states have proposed bans and three sta...
Donald Trump’s first term produced one major trilateral agreement he negotiated and signed: the USMCA, signed November–December 2018 and in force July 1, 2020 . After the 2024 election, reporting and ...
The Gaza Strip is in a fragmented, transitional political state: a November 2025 UN Security Council resolution endorses an international stabilisation framework and a U.S.-backed “peace plan” that en...
Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy produced both measurable diplomatic wins — notably new trade frameworks and negotiated ceasefire/peace initiatives in the Middle East — and sweeping instituti...
Arab citizens of Israel hold full Israeli citizenship on paper—identity cards, passports, the right to vote and run for office—and enjoy formal civil and political rights protected by courts and insti...
NATO’s accession and post‑accession requirements—most visibly the 2014 pledge to aim for 2% of GDP on defence and the related equipment and capability targets—have pressured small European states to r...
Measured by leading comparative indices and academic studies, the United States shows a clear and recent trajectory of democratic backsliding—sharp declines on multiple indicators since 2016 that, by ...
Available reporting shows a clear uptick in climate activism and protest-related organizing in the United States during 2025, driven in large part by high-profile federal rollbacks and record-breaking...
Longstanding international reporting documents extensive abuses of Palestinian rights by Israeli authorities and serious failures by other actors, including the United States, to check those policies:...
Donald Trump pursued Russia-facing business opportunities from the late 1980s through the 2010s but, by most accounts in available reporting, never closed a major real-estate deal in Moscow; his organ...
Donald Trump’s post-2024 foreign policy departs from recent post‑1945 U.S. practice by combining blunt “America First” transactionalism, a willingness to wield force and leverage aggressively, and an ...