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Surviving as a POW in WWII set Alan Rabinov up for fashion business success

Alan Rabinov's skills as "one of the more successful traders and scroungers" in Changi helped set him up for success as a fashion entrepreneur after World War II.

ABC News

Bitcoin is terrible for the environment – can it ever go green?

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of energy, but activists are urging for a change in its code to reduce its environmental impact

The Guardian - US

Meet the hidden genius behind wartime gadgets

The true brilliance behind the design of wartime gizmos is hard to conceal.

Newcastle Herald

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‘An Easter exchange’: 130 Ukrainian prisoners of war freed

Ukrainian official confirms exchange of POWs on the day Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrate Easter.

Al Jazeera

Help for 'vulnerable' sex workers in Nottingham as charity awarded funding

POW Nottingham offers a range of help and advice to those working within the sex industry, supporting online and off-street workers, students, under 25s and LGBTQ+ workers

Nottingham Post

Following in the footsteps of heroes 104 years after Bolton PoWs made an epic journey back home

"It’s a matter of finding the kind of transport my great-grandad would have had to look for. It could be a friendly farmer with a tractor and trailer or we could be walking.”

Manchester Evening News

Where's the snow? Climate change affects ski racing season

Mother Nature and global warming are having just as much to say about when and where to hold ski races these days as the International Ski and Snowboard Federation

The Independent UK

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From Thai-Burma railway to Sandakan, WWII history buff unearths stories of Australian POWs

A South Australian businessman digs into why prisoners from his region died at a far higher rate at the hands of their Japanese captors and discovers little-known tales in the process.

ABC News

Robert Clary obituary

Singer and actor who played the French corporal Louis LeBeau in the popular US sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, set in a wartime PoW camp

The Guardian - UK

Robert Clary, Holocaust survivor who starred in TV's 'Hogan's Heroes', dies at 96

Robert Clary, the diminutive Paris-born actor and singer who survived 31 months in Nazi concentration camps but later had no qualms about co-starring in "Hogan's Heroes," the American situation comedy set in a German World War Two POW camp, has died at the age of 96.

Reuters

Inside abandoned PoW camp in the Cotswolds where Nazi soldiers were imprisoned in WW2

Pictures taken by Dean Overthrow near Chipping Campden show empty buildings covered in mossy greens, abandoned machinery including a tractor and a car spread over a ground

Daily Mirror

In Russian-held Donetsk, freed POWs return to tearful reunions

Fighters affiliated with the Russian-installed administration of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region arrived in the town of Amvrosiivka on Sunday after being freed in a prisoner swap with the Ukrainian military.

Reuters

Putin's conscripts can end up at Ukraine's largest POW camp. They can only hope for a trade

The ABC is given a rare look inside Ukraine's central prisoner of war camp, where Russia's hapless soldiers are stuck in an eerie half-world between the war's living and its dead.

ABC News

POW Requiem premieres in Canberra to honour Australian World War II prisoners

The POW Requiem, featuring 24 movements, was performed over the weekend for the first time, in honour of Australia's thousands of World War II prisoners.

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Salon

Trump and white America's death wish

Donald Trump's superpower: He understands white America's impulse toward self-destruction — and mainlines it

Reuters

Former Ukraine POWs recall fainting from hunger in Russian captivity

Alina Panina, a Ukrainian prisoner of war freed last week, recalls women fainting from hunger as they took the 15 minutes of permitted daily exercise during their months-long detention by Russian forces.

Benzinga

Can Bitcoin Hard Fork To Proof-Of-Stake Consensus? What It Would Mean For The Apex Crypto

The pioneering cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), which still dominates the market today, has encountered several difficulties along the road, with the most pertaining to its proof-of-work (PoW) mining consensus and the

The Canberra Times

Songs of survival: Inside the lost music of WWII POWs

It is inconsistent with the idea of what life for a prisoner of war was like. Still these music concerts were a brief relief from life in places such as Changi.

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Daily Mirror

Ukrainian POW heard inmates screaming 'please shoot me' as they were tortured by Russians

Svyatoslav Yermonov lost nearly five stone while being held in the notorious Olenivka prison before being released as a POW swap - but is determined to rejoin the frontline

The Conversation

Ukraine war: prisoner swaps have been going on for centuries – here's how they work

Russia recently released ten foreign fighters – among them five British citizens – being held as prisoners of war (PoWs) from the fighting in Ukraine. The decision to repatriate these men provides a timely reminder of the resurgence of the international law rules surrounding PoW status and treatment.

Belfast Live

Roman Abramovich negotiated release of British POWs jailed by Russian separatists in Ukraine

The freed men revealed the news to Co Down man, Alec Pettet on a London-bound flight from Saudi Arabia

Benzinga

Ethereum Set For Bellatrix Update Ahead Of This Month's Highly Anticipated Merge

The much-anticipated transition to Ethereum 2.0 is set to start on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Hindu

Activists stage protest against remission of convicts in Bilkis Bano case

POW State General Secretary B. Padma demanded that the convicts’ remission be repealed and that they be sent back to jail

Reuters

Fourteen Ukrainian service personnel returned in fresh POW exchange

Fourteen Ukrainian service personnel have been returned to Ukraine in a new prisoner exchange, Ukraine's POW co-ordination centre said on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Footage appears to show fresh atrocity against Ukrainian PoW

Russians accused of barbaric behaviour apparently seen in videos and photos from captured city of Popasna

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