A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 6, 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate; the treaty ended the ...

It is well known that the three Baltic States, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, are distinct yet share many similarities. They are comparable in size and have ...

The fresco, originally an end slab of a cist grave, was discovered in November 1871 in the territory of ancient Capua, now ...

Sovereigntism also means an end to something else: Pax Americana. Though it takes its name from the Pax Romana of the first ...

Deep Background: It has been a long journey. The Baltic countries first signaled their readiness to join the continental grid ...

TALLINN - Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal said in his speech marking the 105th anniversary of the Treaty of Tartu that unity and freedom must be safeguarded, as they are a nation's greatest ...

On the 105th anniversary of the Tartu Peace Treaty, Tallinn schoolchildren, members of the government and city officials ...

The Tartu Peace Treaty, signed on 2 February 1920, was the treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence that had ...

Speakers of the parliaments of the Baltic States, Finland and Poland will meet in Tartu on Monday to discuss support for ...

The iconic international climate treaty - the Paris Agreement - includes a pledge to try and keep temperatures from rising by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. But the UN recently warned ...

On this day in aviation history, January 20, 1941, the Brazilian Air Force (Portuguese: Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) was formally established. Like many air forces around the world, the FAB developed ...

For Russia, the new treaty with Iran – a country which might be closer than ever to being capable of producing a nuclear weapon – may be partly about dangling the specter of further escalation ...