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Why PM Modi Praised Nehru in Indonesia Surprised Everyone

Political speeches often focus on the present, but sometimes a single reference to the past reveals a story that many people have forgotten. During his address to Indonesia's Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised many by praising India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and remembering a daring rescue mission led…

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Russia’s nuclear strategy in Ukraine isn’t deterrence – it’s terror

For the third time in Russia’s war against Ukraine, it recently launched the nuclear-capable missile Oreshnik. This intermediate-range ballistic missile has been deployed against Ukrainian cities on two other notable occasions, striking Dnipro in November 2024 and Lviv in early 2026. In each of these launches, Vladimir Putin’s highly touted…

The Conversation

Red scare by the red: Trump and Republicans test anti-communist message for midterm elections

US President Donald Trump has sharply escalated his warnings about a communist takeover of the Democratic Party ahead of November's midterm elections, reviving Cold War-era rhetoric in a bid to radicalise his base and shift attention away from economic concerns.

The Times of India

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“These are better sine waves. They just are”: We meet the people using test equipment to make music

Curious about how to make music with raw oscillators and other pieces of exotic Cold War-era test equipment? Don your lab coat and find out how you can incorporate old gear into your own productions. Just beware of high voltage

MusicRadar

Trump casts Democrats as red 'menace' with McCarthyist rhetoric ahead of US midterms

The US midterm election campaign is gaining momentum, and US President Donald Trump is reviving Cold War era rhetoric to peg the Democratic Party as extremists and a red "menace".

France 24

The butcher who brought his haggis to Cold War Moscow

WHY would a butcher from Kirkcaldy hand-deliver his haggis to the Soviet Union in the middle of the Cold War?

The National (Scotland)

Cold War in south London over chunk of Berlin Wall in man's garden

One neighbour, 18, said: ‘From a historical point of view, I think it’s bloody sick – I really like it’

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The rise and fall of America’s all-you-can-eat buffet

At least three Vegas legends claimed to have invented the all-you-can-eat buffet

The Independent UK

Christians claim US as their own again

The insistence that the U.S. is “one nation under God” stems from existential fear

Salon

The game formerly known as Operation Flashpoint is getting a remaster, while developer Bohemia Interactive has released its engine source code

Arma: Cold War Assault gets the GitHub treatment.

PC Gamer

2026 isn’t the first time Christians have tried to claim the United States as their own

Amid celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary, assertions of the country’s religious, and specifically Christian, character have grown louder in political discourse.

The Conversation

Children born today could still see B-52 bombers in service when they’re 25; Boeing built the last one in Wichita in 1962, and Rolls-Royce is re-engining them

Prepare for a flying centenarian! The iconic Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, first deployed in 1955, is set to remain operational until the 2050s, potentially serving for a century. Thanks to extensive modernization, including new Rolls-Royce engines and advanced avionics, this Cold War relic is being transformed into the B-52J, a formidable…

The Times of India

In 1950, amid the Cold War, a tiny beetle from the US was destroying potato crops across East Germany. Then began one of history's strangest propaganda campaigns

In 1950, a striped potato beetle became the centre of one of the Cold War's most unusual propaganda campaigns after East Germany accused the United States of dropping the insects from aircraft to destroy socialist food supplies. While farmers battled real crop damage, governments turned the infestation into a political…

The Economic Times

How a tiny potato beetle became a Cold War weapon: The bizarre story behind East Germany's 'American insect' campaign

In the summer of 1950, farmers across East Germany began finding their potato crops stripped bare. The culprit was the Colorado potato beetle, a small, striped insect native to North America that had been spreading steadily across Europe for decades. What happened next had nothing to do with agriculture and…

The Times of India

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International Business Times UK

Jesus Was an Alien Hybrid? The Bizarre Flying Saucer Religions Surging in Popularity as UFOs Go Mainstream

As UFOs and UAPs go mainstream, from the Pentagon to the Vatican, fringe 'flying saucer' religions and alien hybrid myths are quietly reshaping debates about God, demons and life beyond Earth.

Euronews

European defence spending: Poland spends larger share of GDP than US

Defence spending across European NATO is at its highest since the Cold War, with countries closest to Russia spending the most. But the continent is splitting between front-line states racing towards 5% of GDP and a large group doing the bare minimum.

International Business Times UK

Iran and US Chose to Sign Landmark Peace Deal in Geneva: What Other Treaties Have Been Inked There as Well?

Geneva is set to host a US-Iran memorandum of understanding, continuing its legacy as a neutral ground for significant global agreements, including the Geneva Conventions and Middle East peace pacts.

The Guardian - AU

Andrew Hastie compares AI to cold-war nuclear arms race and warns Australia may fall behind

Liberal MP says Australia risks sovereignty and strategic independence being ‘constrained by the AI superpowers reshaping the global order’

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“Never Used”: 10 Secret Bunkers You Were Never Meant To See

From Hitler's Wolf's Lair to the Greenbrier bunker hidden under a luxury resort, these 10 secret underground bunkers were never meant to be found.

The Independent UK

What China and North Korea stand to gain from Xi Jinping’s rare summit with Kim Jong Un

Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives in North Korea for first time in nearly seven years, offering North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un a stage to showcase an increasingly assertive foreign policy. Arpan Rai reports

Space

Inside the cruel confines of Apple TV's 'Star City' with star Rhys Ifans and series creators (interview)

'If 'For All Mankind' the danger is in space, in 'Star City' it's on the ground.’

The Independent UK

How Russian threats to the UK rose to the highest level since the Cold War

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Emilia Clarke’s exciting cold war drama

The star continues to flex her Russian as Bea goes undercover in Ponies. Plus: how will the Iran war impact our summer holidays abroad? Here’s what to watch this evening

The Economic Times

On This Day, June 5: D-Day, Operation Blue Star, RFK assassination, AIDS epidemic, Marshall Plan and other key events

On This Day, June 5, history witnessed several defining moments across war, politics and social change. The date is associated with the D-Day invasion preparations in 1944, Operation Blue Star in 1984, the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981 and Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968. It also marks…

Euronews

Greenland is part of Denmark 'for now,' US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says

The US is reported to have had 17 military facilities and more than 10,000 troops on Greenland at the height of the Cold War.

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