Having an airport is incredibly beneficial for a country, but there are five nations that don't have one at all.

Drug-running guerrillas have repelled military efforts to retake a slice of southwest Colombia -- a virtual microstate where the rifle rules. No one enters or leaves without the guerrillas' say ...

Liechtenstein is set for its first female prime minister after Brigitte Haas' conservative Fatherland Union won a general election in the tiny Alpine principality. Haas' party received 38.3% of ...

Andorra is a European microstate located in the Pyrenees. For a good part of its history, it has been a country that, except for tourism, has lived discreetly, hidden from the spotlight and unnoticed ...

Last year, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within the country's borders run by the Sufi sect with roughly 100,000 members. "Our state will ...

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Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious "golden passport" scheme as other climate financing runs ...

Indeed, just over a week after March 8, when the microstate will elect its representative with the newly established 'Sanmarino song contest' (the union of the words 'San' and 'Marino' is not a ...

Drug-running guerrillas have repelled military efforts to retake a slice of southwest Colombia -- a virtual microstate where the rifle rules.