The US may be powerful enough to ignore international law with little short-term consequences, but the UK is not.

There are, apparently, a lot of flags in Bir Tawil. “Bir Tawil […] is often described as the last unclaimed land on Earth.

Charles C. Mann, award-winning author of "1491," shares the Indigenous conservation efforts on Meares Island near Tofino, B.C ...

The plan to give Mauritius formal control of the islands, home to a U.S.-British military base, was called “an act of great ...

The UK government has put its plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands on hold after failing to win US backing for ...

One of Michel Mandarin's last memories of his hometown was the U.S. government throwing all the dogs into a gas chamber. In 1967, the British authorities declared that people of the Chagos Islands ...

Iranian ballistic missiles fired at Diego Garcia on March 21 did not simply cross a geographic threshold; it crossed an important strategic one. For years, Iran’s threat calculus has been framed ...

This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C., and a world affairs ...

China is conducting a vast undersea mapping and monitoring operation across the Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, building detailed knowledge of marine conditions that naval experts say would be ...

China, which was the largest holder of U.S. government debt as recently as 2019, has cut its holdings to the lowest level since 2008, driven by changing trade patterns, geopolitical concerns, and ...

Dozens of Chinese research vessels are on a quest to map the sea floor at strategically vital regions of the world's oceans. Some of the surveying is for mineral deposits and fishing grounds, but the ...