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Nicholas Goldberg: In Europe, the war in Ukraine raises the question — is the past really past?

AURINGEN, Germany — I was visiting family in a village not too far from the city of Wiesbaden, Germany, when I learned that an unexploded World War II bomb had been found just a few kilometers away, near the gas station we passed on the road into town.

Los Angeles Times

In speed and scale, Russia's war against Ukraine has forced the worst refugee crisis since WWII

In just five weeks, 4 million people have fled Ukraine. Children are being killed, losing their families and their homes in a war they are too young to understand. Aid workers warn this crisis will have lasting consequences for generations to come.

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Heroes Return: Haunting Wreckage Of Downed British World War II Bomber Washes Up On Dutch Beach

Plane was a Short Stirling, which were used for mining German ports and later during the war for transporting supplies.

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Nick Xenophon's legal work for Huawei likened to collaborating with Nazi arms sellers

A former ally of Senate candidate Nick Xenophon invokes Nazi Germany as part of a deepening spat between the pair. Senator Rex Patrick compared Mr Xenophon's legal work for Chinese tech giant Huawei to being on the payroll of German arms manufacturers on the eve of World War II.

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UN food chief: Ukraine war's food crisis is worst since WWII

The U_N_ food chief is warning that the war in Ukraine has created “a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe” and will have a global impact “beyond anything we’ve seen since World War II.”

The Independent UK

Permanent exhibition to commemorate the victims of the Clydebank Blitz could be set up

A plaque to commemorate the lives lost as a result of the bombing during World War II has been unveiled in Dumbarton.

Glasgow Live

AP PHOTOS: Day 32: Signs of resolve and collective grief

A 16-meter-high bronze monument to Taras Shevchenko, a national hero in Ukraine, survived World War II. Ukrainians have shielded it with countless layers of sandbags in hopes it also will survive Russian attacks.

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German Farmer Gets Plow Stuck In Unexploded British World War II Bomb

Undetonated bombs are still found in fields and cities across Germany.

Zenger

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

The Independent UK

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…

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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…

Salon

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

Chronicle Live

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

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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.

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The Independent UK

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

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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.

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