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Toby Jones discovers his grandfather was shot in the face during Second World War

In tomorrow's Channel 4 documentary, My Grandparents’ War: Toby Jones, the Hollywood actor learns of the extraordinary things his late grandparents did during the Second World War

Daily Mirror

When is Peaky Blinders film being released? Cast, plot and season 7 rumours

Peaky Blinders is one of the BBC's most successful TV shows, making it inevitable that the end wouldn't last for long. Showrunner Steven Knight has been teasing the movie sequel and potentially a return to TV in the future

Daily Mirror

Ukraine war: why Russians fleeing conscription should be treated as refugees

People fleeing across borders is a hallmark of armed conflict. We first saw millions of Ukrainians flee the country when the Russians invaded Ukraine in February this year. Now there are reports of hundreds of thousands of Russians fleeing their country in order to avoid Russia’s first mobilisation since the…

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Giorgia Meloni's win in Italy proves even a seemingly successful government can fall victim to populism

In a historic win, Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy took 26% of the national vote in Italy’s latest election – the first time a far-right party will take the lead in government since the second world war. Meloni will become prime minister at the head of a coalition – although…

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Watch: Russian child cries for his ‘papa’ as mobilised men prepare to leave for war

The mobilisation by Russia is the first since the Second World War

The Independent UK

Russia could draft ‘up to one million soldiers’ to fight in Ukraine

First Russian mobilisation since Second World War follows series of military setbacks in Ukraine

The Independent UK

What does military mobilisation mean? Putin orders escalation of Ukraine war

The president has ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since the Second World War

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Incredible life of Vogue model turned war photographer who ended up in Hitler's bath

Lee Miller, who'll be portrayed by Kate Winslet in a new film, took more than 60,000 photos during the Second World War and was once pictured slipping into a bathtub belonging to Adolf Hitler

Daily Mirror

Queen’s funeral: Plan, route, timings and everything you need to know about the day

State funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of biggest single events staged in Britain since Second World War

The Independent UK

Queen’s funeral: Plan, route, timings and everything you need to know about the day

State funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday is likely to be one of biggest single events staged in Britain since Second World War

The Independent UK

Why Italy is on verge of electing its first far-right leader since second world war

Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy draw on a vein of fascism in a country that – unlike Germany – has never had to confront its past

The Guardian - UK

The unusual facts people have been sharing about the Queen that may surprise you

From driving vehicles in the Second World War to breeding her first Dorgi, here are some things not many people knew about Queen Elizabeth II

Wales Online

The certainty of ever-growing living standards we grew up with under Queen Elizabeth is at an end

Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war.

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US takes a renewed interest in the Pacific – and China's role in it

If you are trying to find traces of the United States’ long and layered ties with the Pacific Islands in Washington D.C., you need to look hard. Apart from the names of iconic battles chiselled into the Washington Mall’s second world war memorial, evidence of America’s complex Pacific history stretching…

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The Queen learnt to change a car tyre and partied with strangers during World War 2

When World War II began back in 1939, a young Princess Elizabeth was just 13 years old and as she entered her teens during the war effort, she played her part by learning mechanics

Reuters

Germany's Scholz: Queen Elizabeth embodied the best of Europe's shared inheritance

Germany joins Britain in mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth, whose sense of duty was "legendary" and who helped German-British reconciliation after the Second World War, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday.

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Ukraine: how the UK press reported the Nazi invasion 1941-45

During the second world war there were notable exceptions to the at times slavish patriotic devotion the press showed to the government line. Weekly political titles such as New Statesman and Nation, the Spectator and the Economist challenged government policy more consistently than daily newspapers.

Daily Mirror

Man reunited with long-lost brothers 77 years after mum put him up for adoption

Craig Dunderdale had an affair with an American GI during the Second World War and was forced to put him up for adoption, but after 46 years of searching he's found his half-siblings

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Long-lost brothers separated as kids in 1945 will be reunited for first time after 77 years

Ted Nobbs, 83, and brother Geoff, 79, have spent more than seven decades 10,000 miles apart after their family was split up at the end of the Second World War

Evening Standard

Poland may demand $1trn from Germany over Second World War impact, nationalist leader says

Germany’s government has said it will rebuff any efforts from Warsaw to seek recompense

Evening Standard

The Standard View: Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history

The death of Mikhail Gorbachev last night marks the end of an extraordinary time in world history, when the apparently inexorable changes that followed the Second World War were undone. He was the man who, more than anyone, drew back the Iron Curtain.

The Independent UK

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Plans International Court to Put Putin on Trial

Six months into Russia's invasion, Ukrainian officials are drawing up plans to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military commanders will be tried for launching the war. The plan for a special international tribunal to investigate Russia's alleged "crime of aggression" is being spearheaded by Andrii Smirnov,…

France 24

‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a battle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,…

Wales Online

RAF veteran, 99, who served in the Second World War has wartime debt repaid over seven decades later

Peggy Terry, who served under her maiden name of Margaret Potter, was a Leading Aircraftwoman and during an 18-month stint at RAF Coningsby towards the end of the war and helped service the Lancaster bombers

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