Baltic countries like Lithuania have surged defense spending since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

The Congo River is one of the largest and most important waterways in Africa. In the late 1800s, European powers used it as a convenient boundary during the scramble for Africa. One side became the ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed an agreement in January 2024 to beef up protection along their land borders with Russia and Moscow's key ally, Belarus. Estonia said at the ...

WASHINGTON — A long sliver of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, ...

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Thailand's military said on Monday that it has stopped fuel shipments passing through a border checkpoint with Laos because of fears they were being diverted to ...

The U.S. successfully claimed another one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its extended continental ...

A former US Border Patrol agent was sentenced in federal court to 6.5 years in prison for allowing drug loads to get through the checkpoint on Interstate 19 south of Tucson. US District Judge Rosemary ...

What looked at first like a bizarre local accident in western Norway should have set off every alarm bell in Europe. In April 2025, someone remotely seized control of a hydroelectric dam in Bremanger, ...

A state of emergency has been declared and tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes in Western Washington after historic rain left rivers at record levels across the state.