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US pilot dubbed the Candy Bomber for dropping sweets during Berlin Airlift dies aged 101

Beloved in Germany, US military pilot Gail S Halvorsen became known as the Candy Bomber due to him dropping sweets for children during the Berlin Airlift after World War II.

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'Candy Bomber' who dropped sweets during Berlin Airlift dies

A U.S. military pilot known as the “Candy Bomber” for his airdrops of sweets during the Berlin Airlift after World War II ended has died

The Independent UK

Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US

How a backlash against racial liberalism led to the rise of a philanthropy that discourages discussions on race.

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French Senate finalises moves to return Nazi looted artworks to owners

The French senate has approved the return of 15 artworks looted from Jews during World War II, the last step in a process that started in the National Assembly in January. The move will open the door to further restitutions.

Radio France Internationale

Risk of a Ukraine war spreading in Europe rests on unknowns

A Russian invasion and takeover of Ukraine would deliver a blow to European order like none since World War II

The Independent UK

Utah senator drops opposition, internment camp bill advances

A proposal to create a national historic site at a former World War II Japanese American internment camp in Colorado has passed the U.S. Senate after Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee dropped his objections to adding more land to the federal government’s portfolio

The Independent UK

US to open embassy in Solomon Islands to counter China’s influence

The State Department said Solomon Islanders cherished their history with Americans on the battlefields of World War II

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Aviation tales from Old Bar Airfield portray a tiny airstrip with a big history still in use today

Aviation pioneers including Nancy Bird Walton flew there, and it was the base for a search to find famous actors missing at sea. This country airstrip has links to the earliest days of Australian aviation.

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Bomb squad swarm street after homeowner finds 'World War II device' in his back garden

'I prodded it a bit... and called 999'

Manchester Evening News

American D-Day hero presented with France's Legion of Honour in New York

100-year-old African American Osceola Lewis Fletcher was awarded with the Legion d'Honneur on Thursday for his "utmost example of bravery and courage," following the D-Day invasions in Normandy during World War II.

Radio France Internationale

Lanarkshire pub forced to take down flag tribute to Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi

People branded the flag an 'insult' to those who died fighting the Japanese during World War II

Daily Record

Scots pub forced to take down Japanese flag for Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi after bizarre complaints

The pub came under fire on social media from some who have branded the flag an “insult” to British people who died fighting the Japanese in World War II.

Daily Record

Latvia passes long-awaited Holocaust restitution law

The bill includes funding to revitalize the Baltic nation’s Jewish community, which was almost completely wiped out during World War II

The Independent UK

A brief history of the NFL, 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the Super Bowl and their tangled saga of patriotism and dissent

When NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden visited the White House in August 1945, no sitting president had ever attended a professional football game. World War II was coming to a close and the commissioner presented President Harry Truman with a golden pass to any game on any day.

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The Independent UK

Book aims to shine light on Romanian role in the Holocaust

Maksim Goldenshteyn's book, “So They Remember,” tells the story of his Holocaust survivor grandparents who languished in Jewish death camps and ghettos in Transnistria during World War II — a chapter of the Holocaust which some say is largely forgotten

The Independent UK

Biden signs bill to honor WWII Ghost Army soldiers

Members of two top-secret World War II military units referred to as the “Ghost Army” will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal more than 75 years after their service, under legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden

Al Jazeera

Elderly Ukrainians: ‘I was born in a war and will die in war’

Al Jazeera speaks to some of the 900,000 pensioners on the front line, some of whom survived World War II.

ABC News

What is NATO and what role does it play in the Russia-Ukraine crisis?

Formed in the aftermath of World War II to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, today NATO is the world's biggest and most powerful military alliance. This is what you need to know NATO and its role in the current Russia-Ukraine crisis.

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The Times of India

Bengaluru: Iconic image from World War II being replicated in Padmanabhanagar park

BENGALURU: One of World War II’s most iconic images — Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima — is being replicated in Bengaluru. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal is one of the most recognised visuals exemplifying US victory in the war.

Edinburgh Live

Scottish families urged to light a candle remembering Holocaust victims

January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day when people all around the world pay respect and remember the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

France 24

How three-quarters of French Jews survived the Holocaust, despite the Vichy regime

The fate of France’s Jews during World War II has become an unlikely topic of debate in the run-up to the French presidential election, exhumed by a revisionist candidate’s widely debunked claims that the Nazi-allied Vichy regime offered them protection. FRANCE 24 spoke to historian Jacques Sémelin, whose latest book…

Daily Record

Holocaust Memorial Day as Scots urged to light a candle for victims tonight

The annual event remembers the six million Jews murdered at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

The Independent UK

Ukraine news – live: Putin warned of ‘enormous consequences’ as Biden says Russian invasion would change world

Kremlin has amassed forces to stage biggest incursion ‘since World War II’, says US president

Tribune News Service

Tonga volcano ‘hundreds of times’ more powerful than Hiroshima bomb explosion, NASA says

The undersea volcano that erupted off the coast of Tonga this month was “hundreds of times” more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima in World War II, according to NASA.

The Independent UK

77 years after Auschwitz, Jews honor those who rescued them

Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked by a neighbor to hide a little Jewish girl from the Nazis at their home during World War II

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