Many countries have a partial tourism tax that only applies to specific cities or areas most popular with visitors. For ...

Russia is the only country in the area considered Northern Asia. Russia, the largest country in the world, spans both Europe ...

For our new report People and Corruption: Europe and Central Asia, Transparency International spoke to nearly 60,000 citizens in 42 countries in Europe and Central Asia about their daily life ...

Through its Innovation Lab, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) facilitated the development of national probabilistic risk profiles for selected countries across the Europe ...

Of every 100 infections last reported around the world, about 22 were reported from countries in Asia and the Middle East. The region is currently reporting a million new infections about every 6 ...

European fears about the U.S. pulling its troops from the continent have been brewing for some time, with the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, saying: "The U.S. will likely ...

It is the world’s largest country by land mass – nearly twice as big as Canada, the world’s second-largest nation – and covers all of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe. It shares ...