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

Google Maps will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America when the US government officially makes the change ...

Law enforcement authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday announced the arrest of a suspected arms trafficker who is accused of shipping weapons from the United States to sell in Russia. According to ...

President Andrew Johnson considered purchasing Greenland from Denmark when the United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, and President Harry Truman, citing the island’s strategic value, ...

Russia on Friday condemned an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to build a new missile defence shield, accusing the United States of trying to upset the global nuclear balance and ...

Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes US President Donald Trump pushes ...

Russia and Trump Push Europe to Be More Independent ... Union leaders in Brussels to discuss relations with the United States and bolstering Europe's military defences. The start of the summit ...

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When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

Top figure skaters from the United States and Russia were on board the American Airlines flight that crashed late Wednesday night into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., after colliding with a ...