Jus soli would mean that every person born in Japan would directly be a Japanese citizen, but not that citizenship can’t be acquired through other means as well.

What? The US gets its oil from…the US.

I’m confused, how does the BBC platform people on NPR? Isn’t NPR an American public broadcaster?

For anyone else wondering, the Maldives.

I think she probably had to declare previous convictions on her citizenship application and one in a category of treason (as classified by Russia) would result in an automatic “computer says no” until appealed and viewed by a human.

If, say, an Australian was applying for Canadian citizenship and declared the same offence in Australia the negative outcome would be less likely to be overturned.

Fortunately the Red Sea is nowhere near the US.

Not world news.

Who’s we?

I don’t think it should be allowed. It doesn’t affect anywhere other than the US and isn’t internationally significant.

Venezuela is British?

Uh, no?

There’s no queen of England, there hasn’t been for hundreds of years.