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A historian and author of a new book claims up to 4,000 British schoolchildren were trained to become assassins by Britain’s MI6 secret service during the Second World War.

Basil Watson’s sculpture at Waterloo station celebrates pioneers who arrived in Britain after second world war

Boris Johnson has urged western leaders to prepare for a protracted war in Ukraine or risk “the greatest victory for aggression in Europe since the Second World War”.

All European states except Russia and Belarus are signatories to the convention drawn up after the Second World War

It was five years ago this morning that Londoners awoke to news of the worst residential fire in Britain since the Second World War.

The march kicked off at Cadman Park Plaza, where a memorial honors Brooklynites who served in the second world war

Villages and towns along the Normandy coast will fill with visitors this week to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the D-Day landings on June 6. Flags will fly to welcome and acknowledge those who fought in the Great Crusade. Over the summer, hundreds of commemorations will take place to mark…

In a recent news release, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) counted more than 100 million people globally who have been displaced and forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution.

A video uploaded to YouTube shows drone footage as it flies over the Forth - exploring the islands of Cramond and Inchmickery, two of Edinburgh's coastal defences during the war.

With a passion that recalls the aftermath of the Second World War, politicians and commentators are demanding a global order that takes seriously the rules of the United Nations Charter — notably on respect for sovereignty and fundamental human rights.

The village of Tyneham near the Dorset coast was evacuated during the Second World War to be used as a military training camp and the residents spent years fighting to return.