Editor’s note: Teymur Atayev is an Azerbaijani publicist, historian, political scientist, and host of the program “Aspects of Foreign Affairs” on the Azerbaijani CBC TV channel (broadcasts in Russian). The article expresses the personal opinion of the author and may not coincide with the view of News.Az. While the world remains fixated on the escalating…
Newsweek has created a map indicating where in Europe the U.S. has travel warnings in place, which shows Romania and Bulgaria listed in the safest category but Sweden and the Netherlands in the same travel advisory category as Kosovo. Why It Matters While many of America’s travel advisories for Europe have been in place for…
Celebrities who live in Charleston, South Carolina, will likely remain unimpacted by the wildfires that ignited across the state over the weekend. Why It Matters More than 175 fires were burning in South Carolina on Sunday, prompting Governor Henry McMaster to declare a state of emergency. Since then, nearly all of the fires have been…
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky recently discussed the possibility of swapping territory with Russia as part of future peace negotiations. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Zelensky spoke about bringing an end to the nearly three-year war with the President Donald Trump’s help. He outlined what Ukraine needs and what his country is willing to…
Utah is the U.S. state with the healthiest diet, according to a recent report—closely followed by Colorado, Washington, Minnesota and Vermont. A report by product life cycle management company Trace One gave each state a “Healthy Diet Index” based on nine factors. These included how many of the state’s adults ate fruit on a daily…
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank last week released a report detailing facilities in Cuba that it says may be being used by China to gather signals intelligence (SIGINT) on the United States. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed nearly a dozen “sites of interest” in Cuba and last week released a report…
New York is the state the spends the most money on dating services, a new study has shown. The new report by Slotsup, an online betting platform, found that New York spends $0.74 per capita on dating apps, while the national average across the U.S. is $0.40. Dating apps are popular in the U.S., with…
China is seeking to substantiate its claim to a contentious reef in the Philippines’ internationally recognized exclusive economic zone (EEZ), further escalating tensions with the U.S. ally. Beijing claims nearly all such features in the South China Sea, frequently appealing to early 20th-century maps and historical records. An independent tribunal at The Hague-based Permanent Court…
Hawaii has been revealed to be the healthiest state in the U.S., in a study by fitness company BarBend that ranked all 50 states according to structural and environmental factors. The factors included access to healthcare, air pollution, and food prices—as well as how healthy the residents felt, and good habits related to nutrition and…