Only A Total Geography Genius Can Name All 34 Countries From These Crazy Maps

Can you truly read a world map? 🗺️This quiz will challenge everything you thought you knew about geography. From individual countries to continents and the whole world, you’ll face 34 maps - each ...

ASEAN top diplomats under pressure to end Myanmar war and finalize South China Sea pact

Southeast Asia’s top diplomats have met to push a peace plan for Myanmar’s civil war and finalize a nonaggression pact with ...
USA Today

Map shows 75 countries on US visa processing pause list

The Trump administration will stop issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, the State Department announced Jan. 14, saying the immigrants "extract wealth" from American taxpayer money once ...
WPRI 12

MAP: US to suspend immigrant visa processing from 75 countries over public assistance concerns

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals ...
eturbonews

Biggest Illegal Drug Source Countries for the US: Venezuela Is Not One of Them

As the U.S. battles a deadly fentanyl crisis, data shows only a few countries truly fuel America’s illegal drug supply. Mexico dominates trafficking routes, while Colombia leads cocaine production.
Rolling Stone

This Country Songwriter Says AI Songs Should Be Labeled

The use of AI in songwriting is marching forward, and that includes in Nashville, where human connection and the idea of “three chords and the truth” have always been part of the fabric of country ...
The Conversation

How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders

Nathan MacDonald does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Diplomat

Southeast Asia’s Fraud Networks and the Countries Paying the Price

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims The fraud factories of Southeast Asia have no exit plan. They don’t need one. While Western policymakers chase headline ...
Frontiers

A hybrid scoping and systematic review of food safety and quality control in selected low- and middle-income countries: challenges, policies, and effective interventions in ...

Adama Hospital Medical College, School of Public Health, Adama, Ethiopia Background: Food safety is a main community wellbeing concern in developing regions, top to elevated load of food borne illness ...
The New York Times

New Tariffs Shock Countries Reeling From Trump’s Chaotic Trade War

Throughout Asia, the source of about 40 percent of U.S. imports, countries have little to show for weeks of talks trying to finalize deals. By Daisuke WakabayashiZunaira SaieedChoe Sang-Hun and ...
East Asia Forum

Asia Pacific countries confront mounting costs of climate inaction

Climate action depends on support from the public and political leaders for transitioning out of fossil fuels and decarbonising economies. A cleaner growth path calls for green investment and ...