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Italy has not simply “stopped going to work” or collectively refused to pay taxes. A more consequential movement has been developing: workers are repeatedly using
The 37 handwritten FBI pages missing from DOJ’s official Epstein release now appear to have surfaced outside the government’s public library. The underlying case is
A viral claim says Jeffrey Epstein had scientists erase his short-term memory with TMS. The evidence does not prove that. But the underlying files reveal
Washington says foreign institutions that keep facilitating Iran can lose access to the U.S. financial system. But BRICS now represents a huge share of the
Ratko Mladić’s death closes one chapter of Bosnia’s war-crimes history. In Foča, another remains open: Dragoljub Kunarac completed a 28-year sentence for rape, torture and
There is a real connection between China’s suspension of an Argentine beef plant and Argentina’s rapidly expanding U.S. beef trade under Trump. The records support
Sudan’s civil war has produced atrocities by multiple armed forces. But the evidence from Darfur goes further: a UN fact-finding mission has concluded that the
Chinese media really did tell readers not to “reply to aliens” without authorization. But China did not issue a nationwide alien-contact warning. The viral message
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have created a real collective-defense pact declaring that an armed attack on one will be treated as an attack on
The 2024 New Jersey drone panic mixed thousands of ordinary aircraft, legal drones and mistaken sightings with a smaller set of genuine incursions over sensitive