One of the joys of traveling in Europe is city-hopping by train, and this overlooked ride trades a speedy arrival for a ...

Italians are sick of tourists. No, really — they are tired of American summer visitors who travel en masse to their ...

What began as a regional alliance now courts Australia, Japan and South Korea while preparing three-front warfare — but this ...

Explore the disappearance of ancient powerful countries which were once powerful, mighty and stood strong in the annals of ...

Nato members are currently expected to spend 2% of their national income, or GDP on defence. The US and countries which are close to Russia - such as Poland and the Baltic states - have traditionally ...

By Euripides L EvriviadesPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Cyprus – India’s first in over two decades and the first of an Indian PM since Cyprus joined the EU – is more than ceremonial. It ...

Super-tight security is smothering The Hague around a summit of NATO leaders next week. Authorities are locking down parts of the city, closing off roads and shutting down airspace. Codenamed ...

The European Capital of Culture helps lesser-known cities enhance cultural offerings for tourism and economic benefits; Nova Gorica and Gorizia are 2025 recipients, offering activities like hiking ...

But Yugoslavia, Tito boasted, “stayed faithful to our principles . . . giving no concessions, making no withdrawal from our Marxist line.” A year later, Tito had discovered Russia’s ...

Border plaque between Gorizia, Italy, and Nova Gorica, Slovenia. On the Piazza Transalpina, in front of an early-20th-century neoclassical railway station, a large circular plaque marks the spot ...

The intertwining cities of Slovenia’s Nova Gorica and Italy’s Gorizia are this year’s borderless European Capital of Culture – Robin McKelvie finds out what makes this cross-border ...