As rare earths go into aircraft engines and all manner of consumer electronics, China can squeeze other countries, to the ...

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This short tells a story about what would happen if every country in Europe started fighting, until only one remains. First ...

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Location is everything. Kharkiv is just 40km (25 miles) from Russia, once a vital trading partner of Ukraine but now the ...

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A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

Twenty-one months after it began, Vladimir Putin’s assault on the small Donbas city of Pokrovsk (pre-war population 60,000) ...

Nearly two-thirds of Australian towns have no public EV charger within 5 km – and that’s just the start of the gap.

For all its modernization, Poland hasn’t lost its soul. The European Union sometimes calls Poland “defiant.” But to Poles, ...