The World Factbook

Around a thousand babies are born every four minutes on Earth — here's where those births will take place.

According to the CIA's The World Factbook, the only member states of the ASEAN to have existing monarchies are Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia

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Thirty countries in NATO and 13 countries and micro-countries in Europe consider themselves neutral.

Dozens of protesters were killed and hundreds injured during clashes in Kazakhstan, a police official from the largest city Almaty said Thursday, as troops from a Russian-led military alliance of post-Soviet states begin their operations in the Central Asian country to help quell the unrest.

Years of civil war and recent natural disasters have left Syrians greatly in need of humanitarian aid, and international relief flights have begun delivering assistance.

President-elect Donald Trump has renewed his call to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. whose parents are not in the country legally. Online posts falsely claim this would strip four of Trump's children of citizenship because of their mothers' citizenship status when they were born.

While Sean Paul's NPR Tiny Desk performance had many taking a trip down memory lane, jamming to their favorite tunes such as "Get Busy," "Gimmie Di

The Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out a devastating attack on Israel, which was praised by the Lebanese group Hezbollah and ignited a war with the Jewish state.

Pangaea was one of the largest continents in world history, but now it's broken up. So which continent today is the largest, and which is the smallest?

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Kunle Adeyanju is a self-confessed daredevil who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and cycled from Lagos to Accra over three days.

The history and motivations that led Vladimir Putin to launch a "full-scale invasion" of Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that's been independent for over 30 years.

An FBI raid on U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar's Texas home and office has generated new interest in the ways Cuellar has taken particular interest in the oil-rich former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

A United States Navy guided missile destroyer challenged Chinese claims of sovereignty in and around islands in the South China Sea on Thursday, with a Navy statement saying such claims violate international law and "pose a serious threat to the freedom of the seas."

A guest post from Tony Bowden about his efforts to build an open source dataset of world leaders inside of Wikidata, the structured-data version of Wikipedia.

The bill is aimed at protecting "Greenland's political integrity" and will take effect immediately, according to a translation of a parliamentary document in Danish outlining the measure.

Here's a look at the so-called Axis of Resistance, an Iran-backed coalition including Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups devoted to destroying Israel.

The Iranian hacker group accused of targeting both presidential campaigns, and successfully breaching Trump's, tried to hack multiple Utah government sites.

The surprise weekend announcement on conscription appeared to confirm that the military has been stretched thin by increasing pressure from armed pro-democracy resistance forces.