the world’s second-largest nation – and covers all of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe. It shares land borders with more than a dozen countries, and shares sea borders with Japan and ...

A nation synonymous with distance running was given a multimillion-dollar choice: Get serious about antidoping efforts, or get banned from world sports. With money from an oil boom, Norway ...

An explosion in an Athens apartment resulted in the death of a man and serious injury to a woman. Greek anti-terrorism police are investigating the incident, suspecting an explosive device caused ...

Flash flooding across Spain killed more than 150 people after torrential rain left towns and villages submerged and turned streets into rivers. By The New York Times A Times investigation has ...

Emily Morris, a senior research fellow at the University College London’s Institute of the Americas speaks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about Cuba’s failing power grid. The Ciudad Juárez ...

The North Korean leader said the test was an "appropriate" action.

Over the past 20 years, mobile and location has transformed what businesses can do and how their customers experience the world. In large part Google Maps has made this possible. Explore how you ...

Delivering on the ambition of the new WBG Gender Strategy requires engaging differently. The World Bank Group will engage differently by: Mobilizing concerted action through data, knowledge, and ...

and resonant World War II drama that follows the intertwining fates of ordinary people in multiple countries as they grapple with the effects of war on their everyday lives. Season 2 picks up in ...

As one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change ... Following the floods of 2014, at the request of Government of Pakistan, the World Bank prepared the US$125 million IDA-funded Disaster and ...

and what companies and countries – particularly the G7 and the G20 – need to do over the next eighteen months to salvage humanity’s chances of a livable future. Follow here on World ...

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