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Japan’s ruling party secures historic election victory – but challenges lie ahead

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s conservative Liberal Democratic party (LDP) has secured the biggest election victory seen in Japan since the end of the second world war. In elections on February 8, it won 316 seats out of a total of 465 in the lower house of Japan’s parliament. The Japan…

The Conversation

Northern housing must be built as an integrated ecosystem — by the North, for the North

The recently launched Build Canada Homes (BCH) initiative marks the federal government’s most ambitious effort to build affordable homes since the Second World War.

The Conversation

Operation Heartbreak: An alternate history of Ian Fleming’s body on the beach

Operation Mincemeat is one of the better known operations of the Second World War, thanks to the film of the same name which was turned into an improbable musical. It caught the imagination because it was so very macabre: the body of a British officer would be found washed up…

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Intimate Lee Miller photo exhibition helps to preserve the legendary photographer’s work and home

Lee Miller: Performance of a Lifetime showcases works from 1929 to the end of the Second World War

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump says Putin agreed to ‘one-week ceasefire over Kyiv’ amid brutal cold

Trump says he 'personally' asked Putin to stop firing on Kyiv which has grappled with power shortages

The Independent UK

The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict

The late 1940s and early 1950s were a golden age for polar mapmaking in the US. Major magazines such as Time, Life and Fortune commissioned a generation of famous cartographers – who had come of age in the second world war – to explain the new geopolitics to a mass…

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Holocaust hero’s viral BBC moment: Decades-old Nicholas Winton clip resurfaces

British humanitarian Nicholas Winton's decades-old television clip continues to resurface online, drawing widespread emotional responses across generations. The footage, originally broadcast on the BBC programme That’s Life! in 1988, captures the moment Winton realises that several members of the studio audience were among the 669 Jewish children he helped rescue…

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US foreign policy has taken a radical turn in Trump’s first year back in office

One year into Donald Trump’s second term it is clear that US foreign policy has taken a radical turn from anything seen in the previous 80 years. After the second world war, a system of treaties and alliances saw the US commit to upholding international institutions, rules and laws, as…

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The greatest threat facing Britain may soon be the US – but the establishment won’t recognise it

Since the end of the second world war, all eyes have been on Russia. Yet Trump’s increasingly hostile presidency is shattering old assumptions, asks Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Swinney concerned his son may one day have to fight in war amid global tensions

The Scottish First Minister said the invasion of Ukraine changed his thinking on the state of the world.

Evening Standard

D-Day veteran, 101, warns ‘disappointing’ UK is repeating history

A D-Day veteran who has been awarded a British Empire Medal has said that the UK today is “disappointing”, as he warned against repeating mistakes made before the Second World War.

The Independent UK

D-Day veteran awarded British Empire Medal says Britain today is ‘disappointing’

Mervyn Kersh, 101, from Cockfosters, north London, is being honoured for his school talks on Holocaust remembrance and his wartime service.

Evening Standard

Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104

During her time as a ranger Soskin sought to shed light on experiences of women of color during the second world war

The Guardian - US

Canada’s exile of Japanese Canadian citizens: A shameful 80-year anniversary few remember

In the closing weeks of 1945, months after the Second World War had ended, the Canadian cabinet enacted executive orders to banish more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent to Japan, stripping many of them of Canadian citizenship in the process.

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‘The antithesis to Nazi ideology’: how Pippi Longstocking was born to stand up to Hitler

A new documentary explores how Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s books about the pigtailed free spirit were written in response to the darkest days of the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Dushan Chimbur obituary

Other lives: Supporter of the Lifeline Humanitarian Organisation who arrived in the UK soon after the second world war as a displaced person

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Thiaroye massacre: report on the French killing of Senegalese troops in 1944 exposes a painful history

The Thiaroye camp near Dakar was a Senegalese army barracks housing African soldiers called “tirailleurs sénégalais” (Senegalese riflemen). It welcomed men returning from the European front of the second world war, where the riflemen had been held as German prisoners of war while serving on the side of France. They…

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Racism never went away – it simply changed shape

Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks that racism is returning to British society. He has accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of sowing “toxic division” with its “racist rhetoric”.

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The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger

The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world war

The Independent UK

Tax, spending and investment: Where the Budget ranks in history

The Government has committed to the longest sustained period of high spending since the Second World War.

The Conversation

Friday essay: how ASIO spied on Australia’s Greek migrants during the Cold War

At the height of the Cold War, the activities of Greek migrants who had arrived in Australia after the second world war saw the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) take notice.

The Guardian - AU

Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction

The Independent UK

Winston Churchill’s surprising daily habit during Second World War revealed

Winston Churchill used to take a nap in the middle of the day during the Second World War, his grandson has revealed.

Radio France Internationale

Macron honours Alsace and Moselle men forced into German army during WWII

French President Emmanuel Macron, marking the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, paid tribute to men from Moselle and Alsace who were forcibly conscripted into the German army during the Second World War.

The Conversation

Remembrance Day: How the Canadian Armed Forces could help solve the youth employment crisis

Every year on Remembrance Day, I think about my grandfathers — my American grandfather who flew his Stinson L-5 along the coast of Burma and my Hungarian grandfather who fought in the Second World War.

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