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An investigation has uncovered systematic digital harassment campaigns on Google Maps, revealing hundreds of offensive and fake locations targeting the country’s cultural symbols, tourist landmarks, ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the continent’s relative size than the one currently adorning most geography-class walls.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century ...

In 1945, the map of Europe was redrawn in Yalta without input from the affected countries. Ukraine and Europe fear a repeat in Alaska. By Steven Erlanger Reporting from Berlin The world’s superpowers ...

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2025 – The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Tsutomu Yamamoto as Managing Director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), home of the World Bank ...

Belgium is the latest country to have said it is ready to recognize a Palestinian state. A map of the world shows which countries recognize Palestinian statehood, and which countries plan to recognize ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced the countries where procedures for obtaining multiple citizenship are likely to be introduced first. Source: Zelenskyy’s address at the ...