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The Latest Breaking News from World War II

Biden signs World War II-era “lend-lease” program that helped defeat Nazi Germany to aid Ukraine

Washington is seeking to portray a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Partygate most closely examined event since World War II, claims minister

PM has ‘nothing to fear’ from new investigation, says close ally Conor Burns

The Independent UK

Putin's war in Ukraine opened a 76-year-old wound for Japan. This time, it isn't willing to appease Russia

Decades after the end of World War II, a small chain of islands claimed by both Russia and Japan have again become entangled in a conflict as Tokyo refuses to submit to Vladimir Putin any longer.

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How Russia's invasion turned everyday Ukrainians into heroes

More than 4.6 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, sparking the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. They have traveled on buses and trains, folded their dearest possessions into suitcases. They have crossed into foreign lands, their futures unknown.

Los Angeles Times

Crews work to save WWII destroyer taking on water in Buffalo

A decommissioned World War II-era destroyer docked near downtown Buffalo in New York was taking on water and listing perilously

The Independent UK

Fake news story claims Chanel stores in Paris were vandalised with Hitler stickers

A fake "Le Figaro Live" news report on social media claims to report on Chanel stores in Paris being vandalised with Hitler images. The stickers reference Coco Chanel's Nazi connections during World War II. The backlash against the brand has emerged in protest at Chanel's sale ban in Russia amid…

France 24

Russia’s war in Ukraine: Key events and how it’s unfolding

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Europe’s biggest military assault since World War II with his Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, killing thousands of people, driving millions more from their homes, shaking the post-Cold War geopolitical order and roiling global markets.

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UN Security Council is powerless to help Ukraine – but it's working as designed to prevent World War III

A clearly anguished Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 5, 2022, castigated the U.N. Security Council members for their inaction on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine: “Are you ready to close the U.N.? Do you think that the time of international law is gone?” We asked Thomas G. Weiss, a…

The Conversation

The forgotten story of Black soldiers and the Red Ball Express during World War II

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower had a problem. In June 1944, Allied forces had landed on Normandy Beach in France and were moving east toward Nazi Germany at a clip of sometimes 75 miles (121 kilometers) per day.

The Conversation

'We fought for liberty:' Michigan WWII vets welcome memorial

Officials in Michigan are set to break ground on one of the few state-specific World War II memorials in the country

The Independent UK

Editorial: Putin and Russia must answer for atrocities in Ukraine

In a powerful speech to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of the “most terrible war crimes” since World War II and rightly demanded that Russia face “full accountability” for its atrocities committed during its unprovoked invasion.

Los Angeles Times

Witchcraft and fascism collide in Jane Rawson's imaginative new novel

In an age of polarisation, it’s instructive to return to the late 1930s, in the lead up to World War II, when the far left and far right were energised and prominent. In Australia, we tend to think that Nazi sympathisers didn’t exist, or were never significant, but in fact…

The Conversation

French priest renowned for uncovering massacres warns of ‘Buchas everywhere’

Over the past two decades, Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has been identifying World War II atrocity sites, uncovering evidence of overlooked massacres. After doing similar work with the Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, he is now back in Ukraine, collecting…

France 24

French presidential hopefuls rethink rhetoric as Russian realpolitik takes hold

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the internationally condemned act of aggression turned the political platforms of France's presidential candidates on their respective heads. The invasion that triggered Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II saw parochial issues usurped by a conflict that has torn open France's Cold War…

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Ukrainian refugee crisis: Women and children at risk from human traffickers

As the war in Ukraine continues, Europe is facing its fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II. With the majority being women and children, there are growing concerns that they're a target for sex traffickers. Annette Young talks to Céline Schmitt from the UNHCR. Also how women villagers in Niger…

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: A guide to shaping 1950 census release coverage

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some industrial cities reached their peak populations before Americans started moving to the suburbs.

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Over 5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began

The UN has labeled the exodus the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.

Los Angeles Times

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.

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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.

The Independent UK

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.”

Glasgow Live

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.

The Independent UK

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.

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