For centuries, the Ottoman Empire controlled most of the Middle East, holding together an enormous mixture of ethnicities, ...

When I was in elementary school, looking at countries around the world in an atlas, I wondered why some of the borders in Africa were straight lines. Later, I learned that those straight borders were ...

In the past three years, following the October 7 attacks and the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the wider region ...

This is an image created by AI.Part 30When I teach about World War I, I always ask one question."Why did the Sarajevo ...

Over recent months, the straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb have become synonymous with geopolitical jostling. Whoever controls these narrow waterways governs the flow of maritime traffic from the ...

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad Nearly 4m records documenting the ...

When America’s founding fathers set out to create a new country independent from Great Britain, they had a lot of decisions to make. One was simply what to call their invention. Today, the world may ...

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The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe, drawing ire from Washington. Aimed at "a ...

The UN General Assembly on Friday voted to shift away from the 16th-century Mercator map, designed by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, for a more accurate one reflecting the true size of ...

Paris (France) (AFP) – The French foreign ministry on Friday said it plans to abandon using maps with the traditional Mercator projection of the world, backing a push by Africa to give the continent a ...