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Google Maps will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America when the US government officially makes the change ...

Google says it will update its popular maps service to reflect any official name changes US President Donald Trump pushes through. It is part of an established policy but is not always popular.

In August 2022, Russian forces launched an offensive that turned the Battle of Bakhmut into one of the bloodiest and most ...

Nariman Dzhelyal has been appointed as Ukraine’s new ambassador to Turkiye after facing jail at the Kremlin’s hands. Here are the key developments on the 1,069th day of Russia’s full-scale ...

Details: Ukraine recently shipped sunflower oil to Mozambique as part of the Grain from Ukraine initiative.Approximately 416 tonnes will arrive in early February. Another 73.4 tonnes of oil and ...

Joseph Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland has been compared to Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine amid questions over whether a deal that followed the Winter War could be a blueprint for a ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic ...

The russian authorities' biggest fear is putin's death, after which russia will face chaos. And right now, the biggest ...

The commander of Ukraine’s 414th Strike UAV Battalion posted a video showing how a mobile radar detected the incoming UAV and sent its own kamikaze drones to bring it down. Ukrainian military sources ...