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Feeling the U.S. squeeze, Cuba’s government has signaled a willingness to discuss how to compensate the owners of expropriated property, in the hope that they agree to invest capital in the island first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

K'gari, the world's largest sand island, is celebrated for its striking freshwater lakes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

London would also establish bases on the island of Socotra, near Bab el‑Mandeb and the entrance to the Red Sea.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Jersey Water stressed local water was "safe to drink", but agreed the island needed a framework to manage PFAS.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Sometimes she even forgot that he wasn’t just somewhere else on the island, measuring the bubbles at the Hissing Stones or counting eggs in a kittiwake’s nest.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Argentina, ruled at the time by a military junta led by General Leopoldo Galtieri, invaded the islands, situated 300 miles off Argentina's east coast, in 1982.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

And after Diego Maradona lifted his country to a 2-1 win over Three Lions in the quarterfinal, he didn’t shy away from bringing up the islands known in Argentina as Las Malvinas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

An existing desalination plant with large white silos on Vulcano, one of the archipelago's eight islands, has made it autonomous for drinking water.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

As it made its way through the Pacific, weakening to 144 km/h winds, it struck the Sakishima islands, part of Japan's Ryukyu island chain between the country's main islands and Taiwan.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

These islands to the northwest were at the very end of the Antarctic Peninsula; beyond them lay the open ocean.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong