Borders are essentially artificial in nature. They're really just lines on the map that the rest of the world accepts enough to integrate into the applicable global political and legal regimes.

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.

More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders ... maps explaining why. The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World ...

But even seemingly simple names can still prove to be tricky. Word puzzle advice site WordFinderX compiled a list of the most frequently mispronounced first names around the world. The data was ...

The borders between countries, we are sometimes led to believe, are not what they used to be. Here in this first quarter of the 21st century, travel is increasingly seamless. Or so the rhetoric goes.

Where is the USSR? What kind of inviolability in the world can we talk about? Such a concept has never existed in the entire ...

The impact of climate change has now reached an international level, as the beautiful countries of Italy and Switzerland prepare to redraw their shared border and change European maps forever.

President-elect Donald Trump and his top allies are preparing to kick off the transition process alongside President Biden's ...

Feliks Banel: Celebration of Seattle around-the-world flight should become annual ... Accurate understanding of Indigenous names for mountains is often difficult to come by, and it’s hard ...

Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be President for a second time, according to the Associated Press. The AP called the race early Wednesday morning after determining that Vice President ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon, Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have clashed along the border while ... two-year vacuum and names a president.

More than 75 years after Israel declared statehood, its borders ... maps explaining why. The land which would become Israel was for centuries part of the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire. After World ...