French soldier Louis Laplace described the shock for the Vichy forces as the Allies landed. “All of a sudden the sirens were going off; it was the first time I ...
Paul Newman revealed he was called an antisemitic slur while serving in World War II. In the actor’s posthumous book, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir, obtained ...
Poland is demanding Germany pay $1.3 trillion in reparations for atrocities committed during the Nazi occupation of the country. Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau sent an official note to Germany’s Foreign ...
TOKYO — Friend or foe? Or both? On the streets of Tokyo and Beijing, the ties between Japan and China remain complicated and often contradictory, 50 years after the two ...
TOKYO — The leadup to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial state funeral could seem like a never-ending exchange of heated words — both for and against. But it ...
UNITED NATIONS — Virtually everyone involved agrees: Almost eight decades after it came into existence, the powerful U.N. Security Council needs to expand, to evolve, to include more voices. But ...
ROME — Italians will vote on Sunday in what is being billed as a crucial election as Europe reels from repercussions of Russia’s war in Ukraine. For the first time ...
CHICAGO — Herbert “Bert” Jacobson will be laid to rest on Tuesday, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World ...
Lost photographs depicting one of the 20th century’s worst atrocities may have turned up in a Minnesota pawn shop this week. Evan Kail, known as the “Pawn Man” online, owns ...
On August 19, 1942, the Dieppe Raid or Operation Jubilee, as it was codenamed, was launched as Stalin believed that the Western allies were not carrying their fair share of the ...
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