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Swains Island, annexed: 1925: 0.94: 2.43-----[7] Kanton Island and Enderbury Island, joint occupation with Britain (Independent as Republic of Kiribati in 1979) 1938: 6.5: 16.8----- Water Island, by purchase from the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company based in Denmark (which at the time was under German occupation) 1944: 0.8: 2.0 ...
The United States is not restricted from making laws governing its own territory by international law. United States territory can include occupied territory , which is a geographic area that claims sovereignty , but is being forcibly subjugated to the authority of the United States of America.
Map of the western Aleutian Islands, showing the Near Islands on the left: Attu Island (1), Agattu Island (2), Alaid Island (3), Nizki Island (4), and Shemya Island (5). The Near Islands or Sasignan Islands (Aleut: Sasignan tanangin, [1] Russian: Ближние острова) are a group of American islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska, between the Russian Commander Islands ...
Chinese Navy ships were spotted inside the U.S. exclusive economic zone of the Bering Sea by a cutter on a routine patrol late last week, the U.S.
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The US Defense Department has added Chinese tech companies Tencent, ... to a list of firms that it alleges work with China’s military. ... which owns Chinese super-app WeChat, were 6.5% lower in ...
The Russian American Company was responsible for the governing of Baranof Island and all of Russian Alaska, including the indigenous group, the Tlingits. [10] The Company remained profitable until sea otter and other hunted mammals had their populations severely diminished, and the company could no longer rely on the sale of pelts for profit.
Gipson said the same company owns many thousands of acres of land in Mississippi. In the case of forest land, most of the foreign ownership comes from the Netherlands, he said. "This is a huge deal.