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Trump confuses Iran for US ally in Zelensky Q&A: ‘We had 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan’

The president also confused Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he was seated next to, and the Ukrainian president’s arch foe, Vladimir Putin, in the same session

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A History Teacher Can’t Accept She’s Wrong After An 8th Grader Outsmarts Her, Gets Put In Her Place

There's always more to learn. Even if you spend your entire life teaching, you won't know everything. So it's important to be open to learning new information, especially when it's about a topic that you're being paid to understand. When one history teacher claimed that only one group of people…

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The rise and fall of America’s all-you-can-eat buffet

At least three Vegas legends claimed to have invented the all-you-can-eat buffet

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Missing WWII pilot's remains identified

The US Embassy in Bangkok has expressed gratitude to Thailand for its cooperation in locating and identifying the remains of an American pilot who went missing during World War II, bringing closure to a mystery that lasted more than 80 years.

Bangkok Post

‘Vespa is a way of life’: Thousands ride through Rome as Italy’s iconic scooter turns 80

Thousands of Vespa enthusiasts rode through Rome on Saturday as Italy celebrated the 80th anniversary of its iconic scooter. Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Vespa has evolved from an affordable means of transport into a global symbol of Italian design, lifestyle and cinematic glamour.

France 24

WWII internment of travellers: French survivors fight for recognition

Throughout World War II, discriminatory policies saw thousands of Romani, Sinti, Manush, Yenish and travellers displaced across France, imprisoned in vast internment camps and sent to extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Eighty years ago, the last travellers were freed from French internment camps. Our reporters Antonia Kerrigan and Valentine Erba…

France 24

Europe's population reckoning: How can the EU avoid falling off a demographic cliff?

It has been called Europe’s demographic time bomb: Older people are living longer, while younger people are having fewer children. Last year in France, for example, deaths outpaced births for the first time since the end of World War II, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to call for "demographic rearmament".

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Ukraine reburies remains of divisive nationalist World War II leader

Ukraine reburied the repatriated remains of a divisive military figure Andrii Melnyk, who was leading the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, an independence group that challenged Soviet rule, including by working with Nazi Germany during World War II.

Euronews

The Philippines’ brutal history informs Glenn Diaz’s powerful political novel

Western imperialism has a long history in the Philippines. Hundreds of years of Spanish colonisation, beginning in the 1500s, culminated in the Spanish-American War in 1897. The first attempt to declare the Philippine Republic in 1899 was followed by the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), then American control, Japanese occupation during World…

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Is World War III Coming? Donald Trump Issues Chilling Warning During Iran Conflict

President Trump warns of World War III if tensions with Iran escalate, emphasizing the importance of strong leadership to prevent global conflict.

International Business Times UK

Heather Morris returns to WWII with 'The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse' set in Nazi-occupied Paris

Heather Morris has a new novel set during World War II in Nazi-occupied Paris

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles

In 1945, an angry mob confronted Aba Mizreh and four of his sons outside their former home in Paris. The Jewish family had hidden in Lyon during World War II, only to learn that their apartment had been looted and rented in their absence. Despite an eviction notice, the new…

The Conversation

When Animals Took Over Paradise: Islands Where Humans Are Only Visitors

There are places on Earth where humans are not the main characters. Where footsteps slow down, voices soften, and the rules of dominance quietly change. On a handful of extraordinary islands across the world, animals reign not because they were placed on pedestals, but because humans stepped back, sometimes by…

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‘Britain at War’ knitted figures bring wartime stories to life in Enniskillen

The 80-metre installation is currently on show at St Macartin’s Cathedral.

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Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment

With a stroke of a presidential pen, the lives of Izumi Taniguchi, Minoru Tajii, Homei Iseyama and Peggy Yorita irreparably changed on Feb. 19, 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which set in motion their wartime incarceration along with other people of Japanese ancestry…

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Russia suffers more losses in its war against Ukraine than any other country since WWII — report

Russia sustained 1.2 million casualties almost four years into its all-out war in Ukraine, suffering more losses than any major power in any war since World War II, according to a CSIS report.

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‘I saw the horrors’: how Australian journalists bore witness to the Holocaust

In the dying days of World War II, startling news about “horror camps” in Germany began to emerge, as Western war correspondents accompanied British and American forces advancing towards Berlin. During the liberation of the camps, soldiers and journalists, including 15 Australian journalists and two artists, encountered thousands of dead.…

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France records more deaths than births for first time since 1945

Fewer babies, more elderly people, rising life expectancy: France has gradually changed and is now at a demographic turning point. For the first time since World War II, there were more deaths than births, according to the national statistics institute Insee.

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TikTok removes Polish far-right leader’s videos after antisemitism complaints in rare move

One of the videos removed from the platform showed Polish politician Grzegorz Braun denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, one of the largest German concentration camps during World War II.

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The law meets its limits – what ‘Nuremberg’ reveals about guilt, evil and the quest for global justice

The film “Nuremberg” depicts events surrounding the post-World War II International Military Tribunal – the first and best-known of the Nuremberg trials – which was created to carry out the “just and prompt trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis.”

The Independent UK

Mushroom hunting in Germany sees a revival thanks to veganism and medicinal fungi, in photos

Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam. This activity, once a necessity after World War II, is seeing a revival. The pandemic and a growing interest in veganism and medicinal fungi have fueled this trend.

International Business Times

Suspect In Kirk Killing Allegedly Etched 'Hey Fascist! Catch' On Bullet Casing

Another featured the line "O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao, ciao ciao," a lyric from an Italian World War II-era partisan song widely associated with anti-fascist resistance. Another casing read "If you read this you are gay lmao."

Euronews

Argentina recovers Nazi-looted painting missing for 80 years after surfacing in online listing

Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady, stolen from Dutch-Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker during World War II, was discovered in a real estate listing.

The Independent UK

A summit and parade in China may signal a geopolitical shift. They might also be political jockeying

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even sinister, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of…

International Business Times

On VJ Day, King Pays Tribute To UK Veterans, Warns Of War's 'True Cost'

King Charles III Friday lauded the "courage" of veterans and civilians who paid a high price to end World War II, leading UK commemorations for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.

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