Democracies across the globe are at a crossroads, as authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms
Incumbent parties and leaders were battered in elections that covered 60% of the world’s population, a sign of widespread ...
Floods, insufficient water, sinking river deltas: Hydrologists map changing river landscapes across the globe
A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. The work has revealed significant effects on both downstream (44% decrease in water flow) and upstream (17% flow increase) rivers, ...
Map shows the world's safest countries to be in if WWIII breaks out
It also now states, in Putin’s words, that Russia is ‘entitled to use our weapons’ against countries which allow their ...
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Unexplained heatwave hotspots are popping up like 'angry skin blotches' around the globe - including one over the UK, concerning map reveals
Heatwaves around the world in recent years have been so intense ... Marked out on a new map, these 10 distinct heatwave regions are so extreme, they fall far beyond what any model of global ...
The Globe and Mail28d
Trudeau opposes allowing Russia to keep ‘an inch’ of Ukrainian territory
“If Russia succeeds in gaining an inch of territory in Ukraine because of their illegal invasion, countries around the world will look ... now to redraw lines on a map, to violate the UN Charter ...
The Globe and Mail21d
What to know about sudden rebel gains in Syria’s 13-year civil war and why it matters
Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by ... sleeper cells in the two countries. Ford said the fighting in ...
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Drawing an ESG Materiality Map and Measuring the ESG Practices Around the World
According to our latest research, European countries—particularly ... occupy the globe’s bottom quintile. The full set of rankings is shown on the map below. The same holds true for Italy ...
The Boston Globe9d
UN talks fail to reach agreement on dealing with rising risk of global drought
The Gulf nation is one of the world’s largest oil producers and exporters with the second-largest global oil reserves. Earlier in the conference, hosts Saudi Arabia, a few other countries and ...
The Boston Globe9d
Assad’s fall to Islamist rebels in Syria unsettles region’s autocrats
Earlier this week, the ambassadors of seven Arab countries met with HTS representatives ... the stunning rehabilitation of one of the world’s most repressive leaders. Arab governments hoped ...
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10 most common surnames from across the globe
In several countries, certain surnames have gained such a majority that they are representative of hundreds of years of cultural tradition tied to heritage. According to the World of Statistics ...