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TODAY marks the 48th consecutive day of protests in Jammu & Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state. Young Kashmiri men have been on the street... (2018)
BUILDING a wall of trees across the width of Africa is a tall order. Solving the twin problems of land degradation and desertification poses a grea... (2018)
THE Israeli parliament is a rowdy place at the best of times. Last month things got especially tense. Betzalel Smotrich, a right-wing lawmaker, ca... (2018)
VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russia's president, will make his first official visit to Japan on December 15th, where he will join Shinzo Abe in the hot springs ... (2018)
THE long-running dispute between China and its rivals in the South China Sea centres on an apparently insoluble conflict: China’s maritime claims o... (2018)
ON FRIDAY the assembly of Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost territory, is set to approve a new lawsuit to block construction of an American military ba... (2018)
FOR almost a quarter of a century Macedonia, the southernmost part of long-vanished Yugoslavia, has been called FYROM by the United Nations, the EU... (2018)
COUNTRIES are supposed to sort out border disputes before they join the European Union (EU). Slovenia and Croatia did not and that failure has retu... (2018)
ON January 20th Turkey launched a military operation (optimistically dubbed “Olive Branch”) in Syria's north-western enclave of Afrin. It started w... (2018)
28 years, two months and 27 days TO MILLIONS the Berlin Wall—which as of today has been down for longer than it was up—was above all a symbol. I... (2018)
Shenzhen is increasingly known within tech circles as the must-go location for anyone working on hardware. The one hour Wired documentary about She... (2018)
POLAND represents a dilemma for the European Union (EU). Since coming to power in October 2015, the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS in Polish... (2018)
Up to 15 inches fell in northwestern Algeria, creating an alien-looking landscape right here on Earth. Snow in the Sahara Creates White-Capped Dun... (2018)
THE question of where Europe’s eastern border lies has bedevilled statesmen for centuries. It has proved equally difficult for the European Union, ... (2017)
It is more integrated than the European Union, but less unified than the United States "IN A speech to London’s Constitutional Club in 1931, Win... (2017)
THEIR headquarters are separated only by a three-kilometre taxi ride across Brussels, and over the years they have declared their shared interests ... (2017)
THE EUROPEAN UNION is at heart an economic and trade project built on its foundation as a customs union. The 1980s saw the addition of the single m... (2017)
GREECE’S marathon crisis is at least instructive. Past flare-ups have illustrated a textbook’s worth of economic principles. The latest episode—a d... (2017)
Special Report from The Economist: "THE EUROPEAN PROJECT has sometimes given the impression of being in perpetual crisis... (2017)
ROME and Milan are like France and England, Oxford and Cambridge, the Knicks and the Bulls. Rivalries range from politics to television, from food ... (2017)
RECENT weeks have seen an abrupt shift in the pattern of irregular migration in the Mediterranean. A deal last year between the European Union and ... (2017)
ROBERT GOODWIN is research fellow at University College London and author of “Crossing the Continent 1527-1540” (2009) and “Spain: The Centre of th... (2017)
IN THE summer, Spaniards enjoy their long evenings, having a drink at a pavement terraza before dining at 10pm or later. Yet the evenings are far l... (2017)
DAWN’S rays crest the palm and date fronds. Lights on the African coast pulsate gently through the February haze. In the shadows falling from the s... (2017)
“HOW can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”, Charles de Gaulle once famously complained of France. In the wake of t... (2017)
OF ALL the voters fuming about neglect by out-of-touch politicians in distant Paris, the people of French Guiana have perhaps the strongest case. I... (2017)
THE first voters in France to cast their ballots in the May 7th presidential elections were not in Europe but on a rocky archipelago in the Atlanti... (2017)
“IT’S SIMPLE UNTIL you make it complicated”, reads a poster pinned to the wall of the hangout room. Purple and green cushions on the sofa are print... (2017)
Not the country you know "MAKESHIFT stalls appear on every country road in Brazil, usually laden with bananas and coconuts. On the back roads of... (2017)
OTHER Latin Americans think of Brazilians a bit like the rest of the world thinks of Americans: loud, flashy and rich. This is as it should be, bec... (2017)
STRATFORvideo Published on Jan 23, 2015 Stratfor examines Poland's difficult geographic position between Russia and the West. About Stratfor... (2018)
Wendover Productions Published on Apr 25, 2017 (2018)
Hello World’s host Ashlee Vance traveled to Akademgorodok to see what this science city looks like in 2016. Where the labs of yesteryear have star... (2018)
This video was based on a chapter of the book “Prisoners of Geography” by Tim Marshall. It’s the best book I’ve read so far in 2017 so I highly enc... (2017)
Stratfor explains the geographic impetus behind Russia's need for regional dominance and its implications for global politics. About Stratfor: Stra... (2017)
On August 13, 1961, construction workers began tearing up streets and erecting barriers in Berlin. This night marked the beginning of one of histor... (2017)
YouTube: The Animated History of Germany (2017)
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Vox: Published on Dec 2, 2016 Making accurate world maps is mathematically impossible. (2017)
Switzerland is populated with billionaires — there's one for every 80,000 people. As of 2022, the country was home to an estimated 110 billionaires... (2024)
At the top of South America are three small territories. Until about ten years ago, not a single road connected them to the outside world. They are... (2024)
Jesse Schoberg, 41, relocated to Bangkok, Thailand at the beginning of 2022. He has been living and working abroad since 2008. He currently makes a... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany. (2023)
Nestled under the Alps and the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner Base Tunnel is poised to be the longest underground railway connection in the w... (2023)
Learn everything there is to know about the #Geography of #Patagonia. From deep Fjords in the west to towering mountains and glaciers in the center... (2023)
Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)
The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. contai... (2023)
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
In a state dominated by progressive politics, some residents in rural Oregon east of the Cascade Mountains want to move the border so that their co... (2023)
Why Living in Portugal Doesn't Work for MOST Americans (2023)
Bosnia: The Worst War You Never Learned About (2023)
German Reunification almost didn't happen. It was opposed by nearly all world leaders. (2023)
How was Switzerland Formed? -The History of Switzerland (2023)
Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill's CRAZY Post-War Plan For Germany (2023)
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | After exploring the proud cuisine capital of Lyon — which, at least in its own mind, rivals Paris — we head for ... (2023)
Macron wants to give the #EU a military face and gather the con... (2023)
France secretly owns 14 countries, neocolonial Africa (2023)
Most major big cities in Europe like London, Paris & berlin are experiencing a high rate of inflation, especially in the last couple of years. But ... (2023)
In 1977 Jimmy Carter agreed to the United States returning the Panama Canal back to Panama by 2000. He agreed to the transfer in return for nothing... (2023)
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. In the decades after World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust, Germany deliberately under... (2023)
Understanding Exclaves and Enclaves Normally, if a foreign country has you totally surrounded, that isn’t a good thing. However, in some parts o... (2021)
The area that is now Oklahoma was once a place called Indian Territory. Beginning in the 1800s, the U.S. government designated the land in the Grea... (2018)
South Korea says that the North is willing to talk about giving up its atomic arsenal. What happened to the threat of nuclear war? Guest: Mark Land... (2018)
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young wom... (2023)
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view ... (2019)
Oklahoma City and Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis ... (2018)
Rankings: Cost of Living Index, Restaurant Prices Index, Transportation Price Index, Grocery Price Index, Local Purchasing Power Index, ... (2018)