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European governments and the UK have continued to impose and renew sanctions on Russia through 2025 even as the Trump administration has shifted U.S. policy and at times failed to join or actively coo...
The Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID‑19 vaccine has been linked to very rare, serious adverse events—primarily vaccine‑induced thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (VITT/TTS) and rare reports of Guillain...
No credible reporting in the supplied sources shows the UK or the EU have imposed sanctions on the United States; available sources instead document coordinated Western sanctions primarily targeting R...
No — there is no credible evidence that the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada or Australia have recently imposed sanctions on Donald Trump; that claim appears to be a false viral rumor flagge...
Available sources do not record any foreign governments that have imposed personal sanctions on Donald Trump; reporting in the current dataset instead documents U.S. domestic measures by the Biden and...
Laws on sex with animals vary widely: several European countries criminalize bestiality with prison terms of up to two years or more, while a handful of states/countries historically permitted it (sou...
New analyses and reporting in 2024–2025 show global plastics recycling remains stubbornly low: studies put the global recycling rate at about 9% (under 10%) and recycled content in new plastic at roug...
Between 2020 and 2025 the dominant trend in available reporting is not widespread removal of age limits but the introduction, enforcement, or legal contestation of age‑verification requirements for on...
The available datasets and summaries indicate , while . These figures reflect rather than true incidence, and substantial differences in legal definitions, reporting practices, and data years mean the...
The "Kalergi Plan" is a modern conspiracy theory that claims Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi authored a deliberate program to replace or homogenize European populations through immigration; this narrat...
Several countries and subnational jurisdictions had proposed mandatory age‑verification schemes for adult sites by 2025; some moved to binding rules (notably France and parts of the UK’s Online Safety...
Italians are protesting aspects of a rapid digital identity roll‑out — notably the national “It Wallet” pilot and a Europe‑wide move toward mandatory eID wallets by 2026 — amid concerns about privacy,...
The "Kalergi Plan" is a modern far‑right antisemitic and white‑genocide conspiracy theory that distorts statements by Richard von Coudenhove‑Kalergi into a claim of deliberate population replacement; ...
As of recent reporting, Donald Trump’s personal assets are not described in these sources as “frozen”; the term “frozen assets” in the current coverage refers overwhelmingly to Russian central‑bank re...
Global measurements of child sexual exploitation vary by metric: reported Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) takedown notifications are highest in some EU countries and other high-reporting states (St...
Dubai, Lebanon and parts of the Western internet ecosystem are portrayed as among the most permissive places for pornography production, but that permissiveness is uneven: Dubai’s growth in adult-cont...
The Trump administration since January 2025 has announced a string of bilateral “reciprocal” trade agreements, frameworks, and fact sheets naming at least the United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, So...
Nick Schifrin, PBS NewsHour foreign correspondent, published the text of a letter attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre — posting the text publicly on ...
Most countries criminalize some or all activities related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but definitions and whether simple possession is covered vary widely; major reviews and databases show ...
European social media arrest rates are not directly comparable to U.S. rates on the basis of the materials provided: none of the supplied sources contains a systematic, cross‑national dataset comparin...