In Ukraine, Russia seeks neither decisive military triumph nor territorial aggrandisement for its own sake. The deeper ...

More than a year of in-depth reporting across multiple countries by Emma Burrows led to a multi-story, multimedia project ...

Before satellites and jets, people crossed the seas guided by stars and propelled by currents and wind. They drew maps to hint at lands and peoples beyond ...

Before his disastrous invasion of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte said, “Geography is destiny!” This assertion prompts thinking ...

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It’s hard to imagine, but less than 200 years ago, Boston was surrounded by water. The city was basically an island, connected to the rest of the state only through a tiny spit of land. Neighborhoods ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration has set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western ...

In the ten months since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office, he has upended the way the United States engages with allies and adversaries alike. He is not only remaking the architecture and ...

The Western Balkan countries remain important corridors in Europe for drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling, says the 2025 Organised Crime Index, produced by an anti-graft NGO. Montenegrin ...

The widening prosperity of Western Europe has altered not only the Continent’s face but its mentality as well. This is nowhere truer than in the field of economics, where Europe is witnessing a ...

Texas didn’t spring fully formed from the frontier. It arrived piece by piece – charted coastlines, sketched river routes, penciled borders that moved and multiplied. The Briscoe Western Art Museum’s ...