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Germany’s far-right AfD hails unprecedented election win: 3 scenarios for what happens next

ANALYSIS: The pro-Russian AfD could become the first far-right party to take control of a regional parliament in Germany since the Second World War. Their victory creates a large political headache for the country’s leaders, report Chris Stevenson and James C Reynolds

The Independent UK

Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic dies aged 84

RATKO Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general whose forces carried out the worst massacre in Europe since the Second World War, has died in prison at age…

The National (Scotland)

Quote of the day by John F. Kennedy: "Change is the law of life. And those who ..."

Two nations, or two people, can face the same shifting circumstances around them and respond in completely different ways. One keeps orienting entirely around what has already happened, treating old grievances, old habits, and familiar arrangements as the fixed points everything else must be measured against. The other accepts that…

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Identification tags and bones: How experts are identifying WWII soldiers found in the Danube

Two Wehrmacht soldiers and a WWII motorcycle were recovered from the Danube in Budapest. Now, experts are trying to identify the soldiers using their military identity tags. Euronews spoke to those involved about the painstaking work of putting names to the remains.

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In 1942, a US soldier wrote 300 love letters to his wife; 80 years later the mysterious box appeared at a USO office

In 2022, a cardboard box containing more than 300 letters written by a US Army soldier during the Second World War arrived unexpectedly at a United Service Organisations (USO) office in New York. The letters belonged to Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber, a young soldier who spent years overseas writing to his…

The Times of India

Natural History Museum to reopen ‘hidden’ gallery after more than 80 years

The space was originally closed in 1943 after the museum’s herbarium was damaged during the Second World War

Evening Standard

This 1993 Liam Neeson film is considered one of the greatest movies of all time

Liam Neeson’s role in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List remains a career highlight. The film portrays Oskar Schindler’s transformation during the Second World War and earned seven Academy Awards for its powerful storytelling. Neeson’s performance also received nominations from major award bodies. Both Spielberg and Neeson have reflected on the profound…

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Danube River reveals Nazi warships hidden underwater for 80 years: Record-low water levels are exposing the World War II wrecks near Serbia

The Danube River has fallen to exceptionally low levels this summer, exposing the remains of Nazi-era warships that have spent more than eight decades beneath its waters near Prahovo, Serbia. The wrecks are part of a much larger graveyard of vessels deliberately sunk in 1944 as German forces retreated from…

The Times of India

Drones to hunt for unexploded Second World War bombs exposed by wildfire

Dunwich Heath was used as a training ground during the Second World War and since the fire, two unexploded ordnance have been found.

Evening Standard

Mystery solved: story of Wehrmacht motorbike found in the Danube

Record low water on the Danube has revealed in Budapest a perfectly preserved Wehrmacht DKW NZ 350-1 motorbike from WWII. Euronews investigates its role, its factory origins, when it may have sunk, and whether the dead nearby were its riders.

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First look images of Call The Midwife Christmas special released as filming finishes

Call The Midwife: Sisters In Arms will be a prequel to the original BBC series, set in Poplar in September 1939 during the outbreak of the Second World War

The Independent UK

We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires

While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action

The Guardian - US

The Guardian view on French cinema’s De Gaulle moment: present anxieties inform a new focus on the past

Editorial: A wave of films dealing with the second world war is captivating a nation facing major contemporary challenges

The Guardian - UK

Zack Polanski calls for Prime Minister to force fossil fuel firms to cover costs of tackling wildfires

Zack Polanski was joined by BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham as he warned: ‘We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War’

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Zack Polanski says fossil fuel producers must pay for firefighting helicopters

‘We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War,’ Green Party leader Zack Polanski said.

Euronews

Low water levels: EU clears old Nazi warships from the Danube

Near Prahovo in Serbia, relics of the Second World War emerge when river levels are low. On the riverbed lie numerous wrecks of German warships scuttled by their crews in 1944 as they retreated from the Red Army.

The Conversation

Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading

Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…

The Conversation

At a time of harder borders and ‘ruthless’ rhetoric, the Refugee Convention is more important than ever

This month marks 75 years since the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention on July 28 1951. Negotiated in the aftermath of the second world war, the treaty came into force three years later after Australia became the sixth country to ratify it.

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Nagaland Is the Northeast Indian State That Will Rearrange Your Assumptions About India

The India you thought you knew stops at the foothillsKohima sits at roughly 1,500 metres above sea level, and the air there does something immediate to your assumptions. The town is the capital of Nagaland, a state that shares borders with Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh, and it looks nothing like…

Euronews

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: the man who braved 'consequences' to save thousands from Nazis

On Sunday 19 July, Portugal marked 141 years since the birth of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the diplomat who saved over 30,000 from Nazi persecution in WWII. A museum there is dedicated to his life and legacy.

The Independent UK

Does today mark the 90th anniversary of the real start of the Second World War?

A KEY DATE IN HISTORY: Exactly nine decades ago, a war in south-west Europe started in which the Germans perfected their weaponry and tactics, David Keys explains

The Times of India

A Japanese soldier stayed hidden in a Philippine jungle for 29 years because he believed World War II never ended

In March 1974, a gaunt, uniformed figure walked out of the jungle on Lubang Island in the Philippines and handed over his sword, ending a war that had, for him, never actually stopped. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese army lieutenant who had been sent to Lubang late in the Second…

The Times of India

Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of…"

Franklin D. Roosevelt said this in a speech on the fourteenth of April, 1939, months before the Second World War began. "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds," he told the audience. "They have within themselves the power to become free at any moment."…

The Conversation

The new technologies in the UK defence investment plan

Seventy years ago, Britain confronted a dilemma. It wanted to remain a leading military power but no longer had the economic resources to sustain all the conventional capabilities it had inherited from the second world war.

The National (Scotland)

WW2 bomb detonated on Scottish beach after dozens of unexploded ordnance found

A BOMB from the Second World War that was discovered on a beach in East Lothian has been detonated following a safety warning from the Coastguard ...

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