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A fascination with the world of maps

My fascination with maps began during my grade school days when I became obsessed with reading historical fiction books and books about other countries. This led me to try to locate other countries ...
Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old Australian, is the self-declared “president” of the “Free Republic of Verdis,” located on a patch of land in the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia.
The world economy is limping into November 2025, buffeted by geopolitical crosswinds, policy fragmentation, and structural ...
In order to truly understand Ukraine, and particularly in wartime, it is necessary to look at the role of the extensive civil society that has emerged since the country's independence.
The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be ...
Trump told reporters he was N’not really” considering a deal to sell Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, but could change his mind ...
France, the U.K. and Germany have rising budget deficits and debt, while the former crisis hot spots in the south look ...
Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
The continent has built a big, invisible wall. But this approach comes with enormous economic and moral risks, writes ...
The centre-left D66 party has made huge gains in the Netherlands’ general election, with it likely taking the lead in ...