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3 stories from Middle East Affairs.
UN prepares to vote on replacing Mercator map projection
The UN General Assembly will vote Friday on a resolution calling for equal-area map projections to replace the Mercator projection, which has distorted continental sizes for centuries.
Vienna museum holds world's only collection devoted entirely to globes
A Vienna museum houses over 220 rare globes dating mostly before 1850, revealing how humans understood the world across centuries.
Germany shifts from nation of emigrants to one seeking skilled workers
Germany, historically a source of emigrants, has become a destination country, though it long resisted viewing itself that way.
