1682 – Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France. 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent. 1833 – Peterborough, NH, ...

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

The deal proposed by Washington on the use of Ukrainian minerals is completely unprofitable for Kiev. At the same time, her conditions worsened after a public skirmish between Vladimir Zelensky and ...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Photo: Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti The task of denazification of Ukraine as the target of the special operation remains. This was announced today, March 24, by ...

The coming year promises to be another big one for travel in Europe, and these are the best countries to add to your bucket ...

One of the tycoon’s companies, which for years has run two ports on the Panama Canal, had been thrust into a broader showdown between China and the United States. So the billionaire, Li Ka-shing ...

The Freeport of Riga Board has approved the Investment Plan for 2025, allocating €7.43 million to port development—an increase of €1.07 million (17%) compared to the previous year, according to the ...

Thus spoke Donald Trump shortly after BlackRock, an American investment firm, announced on March 4th that it would buy two ports on the Panama Canal from ck Hutchison (ckh), their Hong Kong-based ...

President Trump’s escalating rhetoric over the Panama Canal has transformed diplomatic tensions into a full-blown crisis. Trump’s assertion during his March 5 congressional address that “to ...

A deal for the U.S. to "reclaim" the Panama Canal is increasingly under fire from authorities in China and Hong Kong. Earlier this month, BlackRock announced a $23 billion deal with CK Hutchinson ...

China is scrutinising a deal struck by a Hong Kong company to sell ports at the Panama Canal to a United States financial firm. Beijing directed multiple agencies on Tuesday to examine the ...