Engineers once planned to move more earth than any project in history—enough to bury Manhattan under 18 meters of rock—to carve a canal five times longer than Panama’s. With locks large enough to fit ...

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In 1949, Israel was still fighting its war of independence, and purchasing arms internationally was difficult to do. The recently-formalized IDF wanted sniper rifles, and looked to Hammerli in ...

The United States is becoming increasingly schizophrenic as it tramples on territories around the world. One of the first ...

A US House panel report warns China is expanding influence in Latin America through Belt and Road investments, ports, minerals and telecom networks, potentially shifting regional alliances and ...

The saga of the Glomar Explorer begins with the disappearance of a Russian submarine, the K-129, in the Pacific Ocean about 1,560 miles northwest of Hawaii on March 8, 1968. Russian vessels tried to ...

MEXICO CITY, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Nicaragua has ended visa‑free entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, ending a policy ‌that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central ‌American country in ...

Nicaragua’s government on Sunday blocked Cuban migrants from entering the country without a visa, cutting off a main point of access from the Caribbean island to the U.S. as tensions escalate ...

The International Monetary Fund’s new assessment of Nicaragua’s economy labels it as “strong” no fewer than 56 times. But it also shows how key factors in the country’s growing prosperity – export ...

Nicaragua is sometimes called the “tropical North Korea”. Even by the standards of Latin American autocracies, it feels tense in Managua, the capital. Any political talk is hushed for fear that ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua's government on Sunday blocked Cuban citizens from entering the country without a visa, effectively cutting off a key route for Cuban migration to the United States at a ...