Given the increasing importance of rare earths, countries with large reserves are gaining significant economic and political ...

But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a ...

Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia's Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded ...

My guilty pleasure involves flicking through the pages of old political magazines, side-eyeing failed speculation, ...

After clinging for more than seven months to a gradually shrinking area, Ukraine has seen its position worsen sharply in the ...

According to the 2025 edition of the IPU–UN Women “Women in politics” map, men outnumber women by more than three times in executive and legislative positi ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

The moment I saw my mother and brother heading toward the train, I realized that was it,” Naor told Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial. “I could say ‘goodbye’ forever.” At Auschwitz, and ...

The World Bank’s study highlights the urgent need for reliable biodiversity data to drive conservation efforts, especially in conflict zones and transboundary ecosystems. It argues that biodiversity ...

In North America, citizens are so free that they can, if they wish, completely ignore geopolitical reality. Among the ...