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1 day ago · Fierce fighting is taking place in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, with Moscow claiming to have seized nine border villages in the area. And in Moscow, Vladimir Putin has replaced a long-time ally.
1 day ago · Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino and is spoken fluently by the majority of the countries' populations. Italian is the third most spoken language in Switzerland (after German and French; see Swiss Italian ), though its use there has moderately declined since the 1970s. [33]
1 day ago · Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) rights in Africa are generally poor in comparison to the Americas, Western Europe and Oceania. [a] Out of the 54 states recognised by the United Nations or African Union or both, homosexuality is outlawed in 31 African countries as of October 2023. Human Rights Watch notes that another two ...
- Protected in 7 out of 55 countries, Protected in all 8 territories
- Allowed to serve openly in 1 out of 55 countries, Allowed in all 8 territories
- Legal in 4 out of 55 countries, Legal in 7 out of 8 territories
- Recognized in 2 out of 55 countries, Recognized in all 8 territories
1 day ago · Many speakers of English in Africa have become part of an "Afro-Saxon" language community that unites Africans from different countries. [110] As decolonisation proceeded throughout the British Empire in the 1950s and 1960s, former colonies often did not reject English but rather continued to use it as independent countries setting their own ...
- Manually coded English, (multiple systems)
1 day ago · Least developed countries: UN classification: 4.0 Income: 1: Low income countries: 4.6 2: Lower middle income countries: 2.6 3: Low and middle income countries: 2.4 4: Middle income countries: 2.1 5: Upper middle income countries: 1.6 6: High income countries: 1.5 Not ranked (no data or data from other years) 1 American Samoa - 2 Andorra: 1.3 ...
1 day ago · Latin ( lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Considered a dead language, Latin was originally spoken in Latium (now known as Lazio ), the lower Tiber area around Rome. [1] Through the expansion of the Roman ...
1 day ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often related ...
