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Biden Ending Europe Trip with Unity Message that Echoes Past

Twenty-five years ago, Joe Biden visited Warsaw, Poland, with a warning: Even though the Soviet Union had collapsed, some of NATO’s original members weren’t doing enough to ensure the alliance’s collective defense. “Now it is time for the people of Western Europe to invest in the security of their continent…

Asharq Al-Awsat

How would those accused of Ukraine war crimes be prosecuted?

Even as the conflict in Ukraine rages, a vast apparatus is being built to gather and preserve evidence of potential violations of international laws of war that were written after World War II

The Independent UK

Slovaks condemn WWII Jews deportation to Nazi death camps

Slovakia’s Parliament has condemned the mass deportation of Jews from the country to Nazi death camps during World War II

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Romania's Iași pogrom, one of the worst massacres of Jews during World War II

During World War II, one of the worst massacres of the conflict took place in Eastern Europe, in Romania's second city of Iași. A tenth of the city's population – more than 13,000 people – was murdered in the space of a few days, simply because they were Jews. More…

France 24

Civilian deaths at Mariupol theatre estimated at 300

A clearer picture of the scale of the ruin is emerging from the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which a month into the invasion now resembles scenes of Russian cities razed by the Nazis in World War II.

Bangkok Post

NATO's red lines: How far will West go in support of Ukraine?

Remember not so long ago when France's president blasted NATO as being "brain dead", wondering aloud what purpose it served? The biggest invasion Europe has seen since World War II now has the Alliance scrambling, shoring up defences on its eastern flank and trying to beef up its battle readiness…

France 24

A month of war in Ukraine: Why Putin’s invasion has stalled

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” against Ukraine, marking the start of the biggest military offensive in Europe since World War II. One month on, Russia's invasion remains largely frustrated by the dogged resistance of Ukrainians, with no end in sight for a conflict…

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How can America talk about "war crimes"?

America's massive hypocrisy makes a mockery of international law, and threatens to lead our planet to apocalypse

Salon

Wartime rationing: How our ancestors coped in the 1940s when food was scarce

Rationing was a day-to-day reality for our forebears who lived through World War II, with scarcities lasting well after the conflict ended into the 1950s

Chronicle Live

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War II and rose to become the first female US secretary of state, has died at the age of 84.

ABC News

Monuments Men group bets on playing cards to find lost art

A group dedicated to finishing the work of World War II’s Monuments Men is betting on a deck of playing cards, and reward money, to help find missing works of art taken by the Nazis

The Independent UK

Biden Seeks New Sanctions, Help for Ukrainians in Europe

With Europe facing its most precarious future since World War II, President Joe Biden will huddle with key allies in Brussels and Warsaw this week as the leaders try to prevent Russia’s war on Ukraine from spiraling into an even greater catastrophe. Biden embarks Wednesday on a four-day trip that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Retired Navy photographer aims to captures World War II vets' images before they're lost to history

SAN DIEGO -- After retiring from a long career as a military photographer, Spring Valley, California, resident Mickey Strand began looking for some personal photo projects he could do to expand his portraiture skills. One of the subjects he landed on was an easy choice: photographing other local veterans who…

Tribune News Service

Japan Protests Russia Move to Drop Peace Talks over Ukraine

Japan said Tuesday it "strongly protests" Russia's decision to abandon talks on a World War II peace treaty because of Tokyo's strong response to the invasion of Ukraine. "The latest situation occurred as a result of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and Russia's attempt to shift the issue to Japan-Russia relations…

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Ukraine Refugee Exodus Surpasses 3.5 Million

The UN refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, passing another milestone in an exodus that has led to Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II. UNHCR reported Tuesday that 3.53 million people have left Ukraine, with Poland taking in the lion’s…

The Independent UK

Germany honors survivor of Nazi camps, 96, killed in Ukraine

Germany’s parliament has paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

Daily Record

Skylark IX visited in Irvine as plans to move her to Dumbarton gather pace

Skylark saved the lives of hundreds of allied soldiers during evacuation at Dunkirk in World War II, before returning to Scotland and operating as a pleasure cruiser on Loch Lomond.

Reuters

WWII Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine's Kharkiv

He survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. He survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war. And the Bergen-Belsen camp.

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Commentary: The church I lead was struggling — then the pandemic hit. How we’re trying to survive

During World War II, sailors departing ships for shore leave would follow a beacon of light emanating from the steeple of San Pedro United Methodist Church. Upon arriving, they could take a shower, eat a meal prepared in our kitchen, maybe write a letter home.

The Independent UK

Japanese internment camp in Colorado named historic site

President Biden has signed a bipartisan bill designating a former World War II Japanese American internment camp in rural Colorado as a federal historic site managed by the National Park Service

Wales Online

Remarkable photos of speedway race held at the end of World War II involving British troops and German PoWs set for auction

The family of Private Edward Walsh have decided to auction the photos along with his medals

Zenger

VIDEO: Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade Fires Artillery In Nighttime Operation Against Russians

Brigade named after Prince Constantine of Ostroh traces its history at least to World War II.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Six steps the Biden administration must take now to prepare for the Ukrainian refugee crisis

We need to prepare now for the humanitarian disaster resulting from Vladimir Putin’s scorched earth war on Ukraine: the probable displacement of 10 million or more sudden refugees. We’re witnessing the fastest crisis displacement of innocent people since World War II, with more than 2 million documented Ukrainian refugees —…

The Independent UK

UN refugee chief in Kabul to say Afghans are not forgotten

The head of the U.N. refugee agency is in Kabul to tell Afghans they have not been forgotten — even as the international community scrambles to deal with the devastation of the war in Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis unseen in Europe since World War II

The Conversation

Ladies to the front: the hidden history of women in Australian airforce bands

Military bands, with their shiny instruments, formal uniforms and precision marching are one of the most instantly recognisable symbols of a nation’s defence forces. As such, throughout much of history, their membership as been limited to men: Australian defence force bands only formally welcomed women into their ranks after the…

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