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How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works Technology

How FISA Section 702 Surveillance Works

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows US intelligence agencies to collect foreign nationals' electronic communications witho...

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How Iraq's Muhasasa Power-Sharing System Works Economy

How Iraq's Muhasasa Power-Sharing System Works

Iraq divides its top government posts along ethnic and sectarian lines through an informal system called Muhasasa. Here's how it works, why it was cre...

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What Is Illiberal Democracy—and How Does It Work? Economy

What Is Illiberal Democracy—and How Does It Work?

Illiberal democracy describes a system where free elections coexist with eroded civil liberties, weakened courts, and controlled media. Here is how it...

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How Cluster Munitions Work—and Why 112 Nations Ban Them Science

How Cluster Munitions Work—and Why 112 Nations Ban Them

Cluster munitions scatter hundreds of explosive submunitions across wide areas. Their high failure rates turn battlefields into minefields for decades...

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How Ceasefires Work—and Why Most of Them Fail Economy

How Ceasefires Work—and Why Most of Them Fail

Ceasefires are meant to halt fighting and open the door to peace, but roughly 80 percent collapse. Here's how they are negotiated, monitored, and why...

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How Vietnam's One-Party Political System Works Culture

How Vietnam's One-Party Political System Works

Vietnam is governed by a unique political system where the Communist Party holds all power through a collective leadership model known as the 'four pi...

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How UK Entry Bans Work—and Who Gets Excluded Culture

How UK Entry Bans Work—and Who Gets Excluded

The British Home Secretary holds sweeping power to bar any foreign national whose presence is deemed 'not conducive to the public good.' Here is how t...

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What Are War Crimes and How Are They Prosecuted? Culture

What Are War Crimes and How Are They Prosecuted?

War crimes are serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during armed conflict. From the Geneva Conventions to the International...

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Alinejad Receives Inaugural Paulskirche Prize for Democracy Culture

Alinejad Receives Inaugural Paulskirche Prize for Democracy

Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad was awarded the first-ever European Paulskirche Prize for Democracy in Frankfurt am Main for her fight agai...

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What Is the Status Quo at the Holy Sepulchre? Culture

What Is the Status Quo at the Holy Sepulchre?

Six Christian denominations share Christianity's holiest church under a centuries-old Ottoman decree, with two Muslim families holding the key — an ar...

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Israel Blocks Palm Sunday Mass at Holy Sepulchre Culture

Israel Blocks Palm Sunday Mass at Holy Sepulchre

Israeli police barred Cardinal Pizzaballa from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre — the first such disruption in...

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What Is Birthright Citizenship and How Does It Work? Economy

What Is Birthright Citizenship and How Does It Work?

Birthright citizenship grants nationality at birth based on where a person is born or who their parents are. Here is how jus soli and jus sanguinis wo...

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