AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, the United States has extended its “nuclear umbrella” over its closest allies. This nuclear umbrella, also referred to as an “extended deterrent,” means that the U.S ...

Resolution approved on 23 March by the National Board of the Left Bloc on the European and international situation, marked by ...

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as NATO, is a mutual-defense alliance that was established after World War II, in 1949, by the United States, Canada and 10 European countries.

British Columbia’s Energy Ministry says the United States has paused negotiations with Canada on the wide-reaching Columbia River Treaty that regulates everything from flood control and power ...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed dissatisfaction with the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and is calling for Japan to increase its defense spending. The Japanese government ...

Just under 240 K'ómoks members were eligible to vote on the treaty, and there was a 91 per cent turnout on Saturday. Congratulations to the K’omoks Nation on the ratification of their treaty today.

During one of the conversations, Trump reportedly told Trudeau that he did not consider the 1908 treaty, which established the US-Canada border, to be valid. Signed by then-US President Theodore ...

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has said he is in favour of abandoning the Ottawa Convention, the 1997 treaty forbidding the production, use and storage of anti-personnel mines.

The states parties of a U.N. nuclear weapons ban treaty on Friday adopted a declaration affirming the existential threat nuclear weapons pose to humanity and pursuing the eradication of such weapons.