, jordan became an independent kingdom in 1946. the country lost the west bank and east jerusalem to israel in the war of 1967. years later the country joined egypt in becoming one of the two arab nations to make peace with israel. the hashemite kingdom of jordan is a small, young ...
In Lebanon, food prices skyrocketed 143 percent between September and December in 2022, ranking third in food price inflation in the world, according to a World Bank statement. In Egypt, whose currency has lost half of its value from a year ago, the prices of rice and some vegetables have...
Friedrich Merz made his world-affairs debut Wednesday as Germany’s new chancellor, with plans to immediately team up with allies France and Poland to present a united European front on support for Ukraine and against U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war ...
Many developing countries have benefited little from economic globalization and even lost their capacity for independent development, making it hard for them to access the track of modernization. Certain countries have practiced unilateralism, protectionism and hegemonism, hampering economic globalization and ...
A. G.I. Joe would have died. B. The allied soldiers would have lost the war. C. The air force would have killed the pigeon. D. The villagers and allied soldiers would have died in the bombing. 5.The underlined word "capture" probably means . ...
The summit's significance lies in its timing, reported Foreign Affairs magazine on Wednesday. "It is being held as war rages in Ukraine, demonstrating that the United States has not lost its focus on the Indo-Pacific," the report said, adding "U.S. President Joe Biden seeks to better pos...
In 1999, the space agency lost its $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter probe when a unit mismatch caused a malfunction [source: Marks]. The mismatch occurred because its attitude-control system used imperial units, but its navigation software used SI units. As a result, the probe swung too ...
a democratically elected president as chief of state and a prime minister that presides over parliament, or ‘Hrvatski Sabor.’ In mid-2016, parliament voted to dissolve the current government and hold an election after conservative Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic lost a formal vote of confidence...
Matters changed in the 19th century, when Sweden lost Finland to Russia (1809) and Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden (1814). Norway drew up a constitution, which the Swedish crown was forced to accept, and became self-governing. Talk of a new Scandinavian union with Denmark gathered clout by ...
“I remember as a kid, discovering that the shapes on the map didn’t always stay the same made my head explode,” Defoe tells CNN Travel. “I thought it was kind of a lost kingdom of Atlantis situation, but it’s not like that, the stories are far more stupid.” ...