In October 2010, Gerard Beukeveld founded EuroStaete, a filled ditch in the East of the Netherlands. It has a flag, a currency and has plans to open a casino. EuroStaete claims to have zero inhabitants, but 6 billion ‘outhabitants’ who all should respect the most important rule of it’s constitution: ‘Everyone is and remains equal’.

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

The BBC gained unprecedented access to Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago. It is strictly out of bounds to most civilians - the site of a highly secretive UK-US military base shrouded for decades in rumour and mystery.

In the regional capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, satellite imagery reveals hundreds of incidents of what appears to be ransacking across the city of Khankendi, known as Stepanakert to Armenians.

400 years after The Netherlands colonized parts of Taiwan, the International Performance Festival Feeling Curious? invites Stefan Kaegi to turn the theatre into an embassy. September 28 & 29 in Rotterdam, NL.

While Tatevik Khachatrian was forced to leave everything behind one year ago, Vasila Mammadova was hopeful that, for the first time in 30 years, there was a chance she might get everything back.

The Papua New Guinea and autonomous Bougainville governments have agreed on a moderator to be brought to try and repair an impasse over the province’s push for independence.

Moscow will consider any provocations against Russian peacekeepers and citizens in Transnistria is an attack on Russia.

Tens of thousands of people were going hungry in Nagorno Karabakh — but the International Red Cross faced growing obstacles as it tried to deliver help. Drawing on interviews, data about ICRC convoys provided by inside sources, and weeks of on-the-ground reporting, OCCRP has investigated how Azerbaijan obstructed their work.

raising flags is an ongoing project by museum in progress that has been realized at various locations since 2023, including virtual exhibition spaces online and media spaces in newspapers and magazines. Numerous artists participated and made flags, commenting on questions of social coexistence in challenging times.

After giving a speech from the symbolic Arc de Triomf in Barcelona and then evading a police dragnet, Carles Puigdemont has made it back to Belgium. ‘Today I’m in Waterloo after a few extremely difficult days,’ he posted on X.

France has shifted its decadeslong position on the status of Western Sahara. The Polisario Front, which claims to represent the Saharawi people, has vowed to push back against Morocco and France.

As both sides of the island mark the war that began on 20 July 1974, it is in the knowledge that almost nothing has changed.

New 10 and 100 Apsar banknotes have been issued in Abkhazia. However, the main currency in the republic remains the Russian ruble. The Abkhazian Apsar is mostly bought by numismatists and tourists as a souvenir.

Chinese personnel used knives and machetes to puncture Philippine dinghies attempting to resupply an outpost in the South China Sea, Philippine officials say.

The new book World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century lays out what might actually happen if China were to invade Taiwan in 2028.

GP, celebrity chef and astrologer among defendants in third trial linked to far-right Reichsbürger

A message in a bottle launched from an island between the United States and Canada turned up 63 years later near Boston.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia has published the final results of the parliamentary elections held on June 9.

Taiwan’s president tells military academy cadets that the main challenge they face is the strong rise of Beijing.