Mapped: Ukraine’s counterattack into the Russian Kursk region explained
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a Washington-based think tank tracking the frontline between Russia and Ukraine, ...
Who will call it the Gulf of America? A look at this and other naming disputes
Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...
Ukraine-Russia war map: Where Putin’s forces are making gains in eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising ...
NPR14d
Ukraine invasion — explained
The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official ...
Milwaukee Independent17d
Politics of maps: Cartographers ponder next steps after Trump’s abrupt geographic renaming scheme
As of January 24, map applications for Google and Apple still called the mountain and the gulf by their old names. Spokespersons for those platforms did not immediately respond to emailed questions. A ...
USA Today20d
Trump renames Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. But is it really that easy?
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on official maps – a change that could take ...
Business Insider20d
As Trump takes office, one of Russia's wary neighbors says a Ukraine peace deal should come this year
Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said she believes there'll be a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine this year. "I'm pretty sure there will be a peace agreement this year," said ...
Metro20d
Rare £10,000 Tube map which is ‘unlike any other one out there’ revealed
A rare Tube map has come up for sale, revealing the forgotten London of the 1930s. The 162-year-old London Underground network continues to fascinate daily commuters, visitors and Tube lovers alike.
The Daily Telegraph20d
Ukraine loses one of its few advantages on the front line
It is, Darwin reckons, one of the main reasons – greater perhaps than Russia’s manpower advantage – that Ukraine is on the back foot not just around the embattled town of Kupiansk but along ...
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Apple Maps still calls it the Gulf of Mexico, and politicians are upset
For a long time, we studied global geography using a map designed ... and Google to change place names on maps. Like how Russia disagrees with what land Ukraine owns, or that China doesn't observe ...
The New York Times21d
Facing Setbacks and Desertions at the Front, Ukraine Detains Commanders
Two generals and a colonel blamed for the loss of territory in eastern Ukraine to Russian forces last year have been held, the country’s security service said. By Maria Varenikova Reporting from ...
Geographical22d
Dancing with the bear: Ukraine’s perilous negotiations
President Putin thinks Russia is winning and so has no interest in compromise. Instead, he’ll stand by maximalist demands, which are about much more than the war in Ukraine. He’ll insist on the ...