On Monday, September 7, U.S. President Donald Trump published a fictional "map" on his Truth Social platform that depicted ...

The United Nations is overwhelmingly in support of an effort to change how the world is represented on maps, focusing on correcting distortions that have long made Africa appear s ...

Rampant Yemeni rebels expand control of island in narrow point of Bab al-Mandab strait, which Saudi is relying on for oil exports ...

The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached the Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade.

Japan has demanded that the new world map in the Equal Earth projection—which the UN General Assembly had previously voted to ...

How big is Africa? The answer can differ strikingly from one world map to another. The question has taken on new weight since ...

The African diplomats who drafted a recent resolution by the United Nations to “Correct the Map” of the world made a tactical ...

Ukraine was one of six countries which abstained from the vote at the UNGA, along with Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and ...

Japan was among the many countries that supported the UN resolution. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes ...

Japan has entered a fresh dispute over the world map adopted by the United Nations after objecting to how the disputed Kuril ...

Japan has protested a new world map adopted by the UN after it showed the disputed Kuril Islands as part of Russia. Japan’s ...