Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Friday to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and Russia that has prevented the countries from signing a peace treaty, calling the lack of ...

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

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said on Sunday they had successfully synchronised their electricity systems to the European ...

At the same time, Japan’s joint military activities with the US and other NATO members near Russia’s Far Eastern borders have demonstratively intensified. The official also cited Japan’s ...

Along with many other US allies, Japan barred the export of luxury goods to Russia a few months after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in early 2022. Grand pianos valued at more than US$ ...

A teenager who crossed Finland's border into Russia last week is the son of Ukrainian refugees, according to a report by Russian news website Fontanka. When contacted by Yle, Jussi Honkanen, head of ...

Japan opened their Olympic Qualifier tournament ... The IIHF recently announced that Russia and Belarus would not be permitted back into IIHF World Championship play in the 2025-26 season.

Villagers close to the Russian border in Ukraine's Sumy region say they're living under constant Russian drone surveillance and attacks. They say that, although they have friends and family across ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

North Korean soldiers have been “brought in again” to fight at the frontline in the Kursk region after reports that foreign soldiers were withdrawn following their mounting losses, Ukrainian president ...