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Following in the footsteps of heroes 104 years after Bolton PoWs made an epic journey back home

"It’s a matter of finding the kind of transport my great-grandad would have had to look for. It could be a friendly farmer with a tractor and trailer or we could be walking.”

Manchester Evening News

Where's the snow? Climate change affects ski racing season

Mother Nature and global warming are having just as much to say about when and where to hold ski races these days as the International Ski and Snowboard Federation

The Independent UK

Progress on POW visits 'urgent', Red Cross says after Moscow visit

Geneva (AFP) - The International Committee of the Red Cross urgently needs more access to prisoners of war on both sides in the Ukraine conflict, the organisation said Friday after its president visited Moscow.

AFP

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From Thai-Burma railway to Sandakan, WWII history buff unearths stories of Australian POWs

A South Australian businessman digs into why prisoners from his region died at a far higher rate at the hands of their Japanese captors and discovers little-known tales in the process.

ABC News

Robert Clary obituary

Singer and actor who played the French corporal Louis LeBeau in the popular US sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, set in a wartime PoW camp

The Guardian - UK

Robert Clary, Holocaust survivor who starred in TV's 'Hogan's Heroes', dies at 96

Robert Clary, the diminutive Paris-born actor and singer who survived 31 months in Nazi concentration camps but later had no qualms about co-starring in "Hogan's Heroes," the American situation comedy set in a German World War Two POW camp, has died at the age of 96.

Reuters

Inside abandoned PoW camp in the Cotswolds where Nazi soldiers were imprisoned in WW2

Pictures taken by Dean Overthrow near Chipping Campden show empty buildings covered in mossy greens, abandoned machinery including a tractor and a car spread over a ground

Daily Mirror

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In Russian-held Donetsk, freed POWs return to tearful reunions

Fighters affiliated with the Russian-installed administration of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region arrived in the town of Amvrosiivka on Sunday after being freed in a prisoner swap with the Ukrainian military.

Reuters

Putin's conscripts can end up at Ukraine's largest POW camp. They can only hope for a trade

The ABC is given a rare look inside Ukraine's central prisoner of war camp, where Russia's hapless soldiers are stuck in an eerie half-world between the war's living and its dead.

ABC News

POW Requiem premieres in Canberra to honour Australian World War II prisoners

The POW Requiem, featuring 24 movements, was performed over the weekend for the first time, in honour of Australia's thousands of World War II prisoners.

ABC News

Trump and white America's death wish

Donald Trump's superpower: He understands white America's impulse toward self-destruction — and mainlines it

Salon

Former Ukraine POWs recall fainting from hunger in Russian captivity

Alina Panina, a Ukrainian prisoner of war freed last week, recalls women fainting from hunger as they took the 15 minutes of permitted daily exercise during their months-long detention by Russian forces.

Reuters

Can Bitcoin Hard Fork To Proof-Of-Stake Consensus? What It Would Mean For The Apex Crypto

The pioneering cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which still dominates the market today, has encountered several difficulties along the road, with the most pertaining to its proof-of-work (PoW) mining consensus and the

Benzinga

Songs of survival: Inside the lost music of WWII POWs

It is inconsistent with the idea of what life for a prisoner of war was like. Still these music concerts were a brief relief from life in places such as Changi.

The Canberra Times

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Daily Mirror

Ukrainian POW heard inmates screaming 'please shoot me' as they were tortured by Russians

Svyatoslav Yermonov lost nearly five stone while being held in the notorious Olenivka prison before being released as a POW swap - but is determined to rejoin the frontline

The Conversation

Ukraine war: prisoner swaps have been going on for centuries – here's how they work

Russia recently released ten foreign fighters – among them five British citizens – being held as prisoners of war (PoWs) from the fighting in Ukraine. The decision to repatriate these men provides a timely reminder of the resurgence of the international law rules surrounding PoW status and treatment.

Belfast Live

Roman Abramovich negotiated release of British POWs jailed by Russian separatists in Ukraine

The freed men revealed the news to Co Down man, Alec Pettet on a London-bound flight from Saudi Arabia

Benzinga

Ethereum Set For Bellatrix Update Ahead Of This Month's Highly Anticipated Merge

The much-anticipated transition to Ethereum 2.0 is set to start on the Ethereum blockchain.

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The Hindu

Activists stage protest against remission of convicts in Bilkis Bano case

POW State General Secretary B. Padma demanded that the convicts’ remission be repealed and that they be sent back to jail

Reuters

Fourteen Ukrainian service personnel returned in fresh POW exchange

Fourteen Ukrainian service personnel have been returned to Ukraine in a new prisoner exchange, Ukraine's POW co-ordination centre said on Friday.

The Atlantic

The Doctors Who Are Now Prisoners of War

The experience of Ukrainian medics in the notorious Olenivka POW camp suggests that Russia’s treatment of captives is certainly inhumane and probably illegal.

The Guardian - UK

Footage appears to show fresh atrocity against Ukrainian PoW

Russians accused of barbaric behaviour apparently seen in videos and photos from captured city of Popasna

The Independent UK

Relatives of POWs call on Red Cross to help find loved ones

Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel plant are calling for answers a week on from a prison attack in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that reportedly killed dozens

Irish Independent

Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Russia of ‘mass murder’ as dozens of Ukrainian POWs are killed

Russia launched night-time attacks on several Ukrainian cities, Ukrainian officials said yesterday as they and Moscow blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a separatist-controlled area of the country’s east. The International Red Cross asked to visit the prison to make sure the…

The Times of India

Army’s ‘Marlboro Man’ struck gold with Pakistan POW’s cigarettes

CHANDIGARH: Close-quarter battles produce the strangest and, sometimes, the most humane of interactions between battling men.Known as a chain smoker and the veritable ‘Marlboro Man’ of his battalion, Maj Deep K Pathak had survived the ultra-stress and rigours of Siachen glacier virtually on cigarettes having fought weather, terrain, enemy and…

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