Aman Vir created an interactive map of his favorite obscure islands. Some you may well have heard of, such as Midway, for ...

Japan, a security treaty ally of the United States, is involved in a territorial dispute with Russia over the Northern ...

As President Donald Trump's whims reverberate across the world, one particular Chicago group — globe and mapmakers — rise to ...

On Monday, 20 January 2025, it was announced that the new president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, aiming ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

"No fuel spillage was recorded, there is no threat to the life and health of the crew," the governor, Valery Limarenko, said ...

The two new species were found in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, near the Kuril Islands chain of eastern Russia. The research team includes Thiel, Thomas Knebelsberger, Natalia Chernova and Irina Eidus.

Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Among the disputed territories are the Kuril Islands incorporated into Russia’s Sakhalin region. Participants of the protests, who wished to ...

Recent statements regarding the potential disposal of nuclear waste on the Kuril Islands have ignited controversy in Japan, highlighting the deeply sensitive nature of the territorial dispute with ...

the Kuril Islands have remained under Russian administration even despite Japanese claims for the four southernmost (including two largest) ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has apologized after government officials suggested disposing of nuclear waste on Russia's Kuril Islands, Japanese newspapers Mainichi and Nikkan reported on ...