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Review: 'Transatlantic' is a clunky, quasi-historical melodrama about Varian Fry

The story of Varian Fry, the Emergency Rescue Committee (later to become today's International Rescue Committee) and its efforts to spirit refugee artists and intellectuals out of Vichy France in the early years of World War II has become a historical, ahistorical, quasi-historical romantic melodrama, "Transatlantic." Written by Anna Winger…

Los Angeles Times

Transatlantic cast: who's who in the World War II period drama

Transatlantic cast — a who's who guide to the World War II drama.

WhatToWatch

Reporting is not espionage – but history shows that journalists doing the former get accused of the latter

The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on espionage charges marks an unusual throwback to the old Soviet tactics for handling foreign correspondents.

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Petition launched to commemorate Sunderland prisoner of war veteran Len Gibson

Len Gibson, from Sunderland, died at the age of 101 - just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life and time as a Japanese prisoner of war on the notorious Burma Railway and Bridge over the River Kwai

Chronicle Live

Russia-Ukraine war: Will there be a spring counteroffensive?

Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II is poised to enter a new phase in the coming weeks

The Independent UK

Why Force Fails

The dismal track record of U.S. military interventions.

Foreign Affairs

Japan's Strict Gun Laws: Tight regulations make shootings rare

In the wake of the recent Nashville primary school shooting in the US, the debate over gun violence has resurfaced. Today's focus takes us to Japan, a country known for its low murder rates. Although gun ownership is not uncommon in Japan, it is tightly regulated. Japan's anti-gun culture has…

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Plans to transform East Lothian Second World War toilet block into a family home

The out-building is thought to have been a female toilet block used by the auxiliary air force during the Second World War. Plans have been drawn up which would see it make way for a family home

Edinburgh Live

Taiwan Tensions Fuel Anxiety on Japan’s Tiny Yonaguni Island

Yonaguni is the westernmost in a series of small Japanese islands, known as Yaeyama, that are gradually being transformed into a key line of defense as Japan embarks on its biggest military buildup since World War II.

The News Lens

An anxious Asia arms for a war it hopes to prevent

TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins.

Bangkok Post

Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment

Italy's premier has marked the anniversary of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy

The Independent UK

Russia boosts defences near Japan amid US row over Asia Pacific

Moscow’s move comes after high-level visits by rivals China and Japan to both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Al Jazeera

Fresh concern over Chinese interest in Pacific airstrip

China has conducted a feasibility study at the request of Kiribati's government to upgrade a strategic airstrip that housed military planes in World War II.

AAP

Carl P. Leubsdorf: GOP disagreement over Ukraine echoes isolationists of WWII

The pointed exchanges among Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers about the U.S. commitment to Ukraine is a reminder that some policy debates never end. Like the one over U.S. overseas commitments.

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France 24

Mismatch? Russia's growing dependence on China

"In love, there is always one who kisses, and one who offers the cheek." That French proverb was borrowed by Winston Churchill's daughter to describe the British prime minister's relationship during World War II with US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. When observing the optics of Xi Jinping's three-day state visit…

Foreign Policy

It’s Easy But Wrong to Be Cynical About Putin’s Indictment

The charges may be an important step in pushing global justice forward.

Zenger

Two Sisters Adopted During WWII Reunite After 75 Years Apart

After 75 years, two sisters who were given up for adoption at the close of World War II have reunited.

Daily Record

The Scottish memorials to a 'soldier bear' from World War II that 'retired' to Edinburgh Zoo

It may surprise you to hear that a small town in the Scottish Borders is home to a statue erected in honour of a Syrian bear that served in the Polish Land Forces during World War II.

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No, my Japanese American parents were not 'interned' during WWII. They were incarcerated

LOS ANGELES — My parents, Shigeo and Joanne Watanabe, were U.S. citizens born and raised in Seattle — she a student at Seattle University who loved parties and red painted fingernails, he an aspiring accountant with a golden glove and killer smile.

Wales Online

'Two sisters put up for adoption at the end of WWII reunite after 75 years apart'

Annie lJpelaar, 78, and Sheila Anne Fry, 75, reunited in June 2022

Tribune News Service

‘Watershed’ $1 trillion defense budget on the horizon

WASHINGTON — The $1 trillion American defense budget is in sight.

The Independent UK

Callery pear tree: How to manage an invasive former favorite

When the suburbs boomed after World War II, the Callery pear tree was chosen to line their many miles of tree-lined streets

Roll Call

‘Watershed’ $1 trillion defense budget on the horizon - Roll Call

As the Pentagon unveils its $842 billion budget request for fiscal 2024, the prospect of a $1 trillion defense budget looms.

The Independent UK

Australia says nuclear subs needed to counter militarization

Australia’s defense minister says a deal to buy nuclear-powered attack submarines from the United States was necessary to counter the biggest conventional military buildup in the region since World War II

Daily Mirror

Huge fort used as a secret WW2 base on sale for LESS than price of London parking space

Built in 1859, the Welsh waterside building on the edge of the Milford Haven estuary has largely fallen into disrepair, and is now on sale for a bargain £190,000

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