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World shrinks to a basement in Ukraine for grandmother, 92

After surviving World War Two, Maria Nikolaevna lived a busy and fulfilling life, raising two children, working as an engineer in the Soviet aerospace industry and cultivating a beautiful garden at the family home in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

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Japan urges Russia not to hold military drills around disputed islands

Japan urged Russia to exclude areas around disputed northern islands from military drills Moscow is planning to conduct in the country's Far East from late August, a Japanese government spokesperson said on Thursday.Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands that Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row…

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Exclusive-Sherman, Kennedy to visit Solomons, where fathers fought and U.S. now vies with China

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy plan next month to visit the Solomon Islands, where their fathers fought in World War Two and the United States is in a modern-day battle for influence with strategic rival China.

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Irish town in Hollywood mode as Pierce Brosnan's new movie sets up filming on streets

Filming began in Antrim Castle Gardens, before moving into the town, where World War Two era jeeps were spotted alongside French flags

Irish Mirror

Firefighters 'at breaking point' because of slashed jobs, pay cuts and heatwave chaos

The London Fire Brigade had its busiest day since World War Two on Tuesday, dealing with more than 1,146 incidents and taking 2,670 calls and campaigners warn more could follow

Daily Mirror

After downfall, Boris Johnson receives Churchill books as parting gift

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held his last scheduled cabinet meeting on Tuesday, receiving first editions of books by wartime leader Winston Churchill on World War Two as a parting gift.

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Ukraine War Shows West’s Dominance Is Ending as China Rises, Blair Says

The Ukraine war shows that the West's dominance is coming to an end as China rises to superpower status in partnership with Russia at one of the most significant inflection points in centuries, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. The world, Blair said, was at a turning point in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Poland asks Ukraine to confront dark past despite common front against Moscow

Poland's president on Monday called for Ukraine to admit what he called the shameful truth about how Ukrainian nationalists had massacred over 100,000 Poles during World War Two, despite Kyiv and Warsaw's common front against Russia now.

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Israel, Poland to Restore Relations Strained by Holocaust Restitution Row

Israel and Poland have agreed to improve relations that had deteriorated after Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to recover World War Two properties, saying on Monday they would mutually restore ambassadors. The move marked a shift for new Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Anger at cemetery as vandals trash World War Two veteran's grave while others left covered in bags of drugs and dog poo

"They deserve our respect. It's heartbreaking to see the damage."

Manchester Evening News

Ukraine's Berlin envoy draws Israeli, Polish ire with views on WW2 nationalist

Ukraine's outspoken ambassador to Germany, a talkshow staple who was central to the public debates that led Berlin to step up weapons deliveries to Kyiv, is facing criticism for defending World War Two Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera in an interview.

Reuters

Russian Missiles Strike Across Ukraine

Russian missiles rained down across Ukraine on Saturday, hitting military facilities in the west and the north as well as a southern city as the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War Two entered its fifth month. Russian artillery and airstrikes pounded the twin cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In the Solomon Islands, Wong takes first tentative steps in repairing a strained relationship

Foreign Minister Penny Wong was no doubt expecting a cooler reception than her three previous visits to the Pacific when she touched down in Honiara last Friday. The Solomon Islands government website had not even listed the Australian minister’s visit – but it did note the first visit of a…

The Conversation

Russian troops living in stolen Ukrainian tents and using WW2-era sniper rifles

A Kremlin company commander in Ukraine complained that his men were short of gun sights, drones, night vision devices and radios, with some of his soldiers using sniper rifles from World War Two

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War Diaries: Unearthed RAF Log Book Reveals The Secrets Of World War Two’s Forgotten Heroes

A fascinating Royal Air Force log book revealing the secrets of World War Two’s forgotten heroes as well as a ‘rogues gallery’ of blacklisted personnel has been unearthed.

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Polish president says calls with Putin like speaking to Hitler -Bild

Polish President Andrzej Duda slammed the leaders of France and Germany over their phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying it was like having talks with Adolf Hitler during World War Two, according to the German mass-selling daily Bild.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin mouthpiece threatens Germany with Red Army style INVASION like in WW2

Vladimir Solovyov called for a Red Army style invasion on Germany like in World War Two when Soviet troops resisted Hitler's Nazi forces and attacked Berlin in 1945

Wales Online

The unsolved murder of schoolgirl whose 'huddled body' was discovered days after World War Two began

The body of four-year-old Joyce Cox was found the day after her disappearance when she was last seen walking to her Cardiff home from school with her brother

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Inside creepy abandoned WW2-era home where owners 'left in a hurry'

Kyle Urbex, 25, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, stumbled across a World War Two-era family home of a British Army veteran, but spookily the house appears to have been suddenly abandoned at short notice

Reuters

Latvian minister resigns after commemoration of Soviet wartime victory

Latvia's interior minister resigned on Monday under pressure from the ruling coalition which criticized the police for failing to ban the country's Russian speakers from commemorating earlier this month the Soviet Union's victory in World War Two.

Reuters

Number of refugees fleeing Ukraine war exceeds 6 million-UN agency

The number of people who have fled Ukraine to escape Russia's invasion has passed 6 million in Europe's worst refugee crisis since the end of World War Two, U.N. refugee agency said on Thursday.

Wales Online

17 places in Cardiff destroyed by World War Two bombs and how they look today

It is hard to imagine the horror and fear that those who lived through the Blitz

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Hidden Joke: Cartoon Sketches By WW2 Soldier Dismissed By Experts Now Worth Thousands

Hilarious cartoons sketched by a World War Two soldier kept in an attic for almost 80 years are set to fetch thousands of dollars – after experts previously said they were worthless.

Reuters

Russian spy boss compares U.S. to German Nazi propaganda machine

A Russian spy chief on Wednesday compared the U.S. State Department to the World War Two Nazi propaganda machine constructed by Joseph Goebbels, saying Washington had launched an anti-Russia messaging campaign across social media.

Reuters

Lithuanian lawmakers brand Russian actions in Ukraine as 'genocide', 'terrorism'

Lithuania's parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to describe Russia's actions in Ukraine as "genocide" and "terrorism" and to call for a international tribunal, modelled on the Nuremberg Trials after World War Two, to prosecute suspected war crimes.

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