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

Although Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede reacted to Trump with the ...

The Trump administration is moving to merge USAID with the State Department and, while some aid functions will remain intact, ...

An American intelligence-gathering aircraft has operated off the coast of Crimea for the first time since the outbreak of the ...

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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 ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

Russia's defence ministry said its troops repelled a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Russia's western Kursk region on Thursday.

Congress had budgeted at least $690 million on pro-democracy programs this year to counter nations considered the world's ...

Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the ...

Estonia, along with fellow Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania, is preparing finally to rid itself of one of the last vestiges ...