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German anti-war epic 'All Quiet on Western Front' claims Oscars glory

BERLIN: A wrenching German adaptation of the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" clinched the Academy Award for best international feature on Sunday with its timely anti-militarist message.

Bangkok Post

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When does daylight saving time begin in 2026? Here's a look at when the time changes this year, and why we change our clocks in the first place.

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German Oscar Film ‘All Quiet’ Confronts Horrors of Wartime

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Germany’s entry at the Academy Awards, shows the horrors of World War I from the unique perspective of the nation that triggered and lost two world wars. The Netflix film enters the March 12 ceremony with nine nominations, including best picture and international film…

Asharq Al-Awsat

German Oscar film ‘All Quiet’ confronts horrors of wartime

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” Germany’s entry at the Academy Awards, shows the horrors of World War I from the unique perspective of the nation that triggered and lost two world wars

The Independent UK

Ukraine, one year later: Lessons from life during wartime

Here in Europe, in the 21st century, a World War I-style artillery war is unfolding that has killed thousands and laid waste to vast parts of Ukraine. Unlike the present conflict, World War I was preceded by a decades-long buildup. One year on, we are still asking why Vladimir Putin…

France 24

An antiwar epic became an awards darling. Why Germans don't quite see it the same way

The film with this awards season's most unexpected trajectory may be "All Quiet on the Western Front," an adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 German-language novel set during World War I. After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and launching on Netflix in October, the film went…

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Faux Fur, Hot Water Bottles at Burberry’s New London Show

British luxury brand Burberry unveiled its first catwalk show under new creative director Daniel Lee at London Fashion Week on Monday — and there wasn’t a beige trench coat in sight. The heritage brand is best known for its elegant, functional trench coats invented during World War I. But Lee,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘All Quiet’ Wins 7 BAFTAs, Including Best Film, at UK Awards

Anti-war German movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, building the somber drama’s momentum as awards season rolls toward its climax at next month’s Oscars. Irish tragicomedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” and rock biopic “Elvis” took…

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Why a far-right gang once tried to steal the corpse of France's Marshal Pétain

Fifty years ago today, a group of admirers of French Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Pétain spirited his coffin from the island where he died in prison and tried to bury him alongside fellow World War I heroes in Verdun. They failed.

Radio France Internationale

Kyiv and Moscow Are Fighting Two Different Wars

What the war in Ukraine has revealed about contemporary conflict.

Foreign Affairs

World War I era pistol surrendered to ACT police

The pistol is estimated to be 108 years old.

The Canberra Times

World War II Marrinup prisoner of war camp stories unearthed by amateur historian over decades

A dedicated amateur historian has devoted years to finding and recording the stories of German and Italian prisoners of war held in a forest camp south of Perth during World War II.

ABC News

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Debt ceiling showdown is probably not what Congress imagined in 1917

It began as a way to make it easier for the federal government to sell bonds to finance the U.S. role in World War I.

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Bangkok Post

'Everything Everywhere' tops Oscar nominations

LOS ANGELES: The multiverse sci-fi smash “Everything Everywhere All At Once” on Tuesday topped the Oscar nominations with 11, as Hollywood formally kicked off the race to the Academy Awards on March 12.

Radio France Internationale

French city asks Madonna for loan of painting lost during WWI

The mayor of Amiens in northern France has released a video requesting that American pop singer Madonna "loan" the city a painting from her personal collection, which resembles one lost there during World War I.

Bangkok Post

A resurgence of alliances is an echo of past wars

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.

France 24

Like a Prayer: Amiens asks Madonna to loan painting

The mayor of Amiens, in northern France, has asked Madonna to lend the city a 19th-century canvas named "Diana and Endymion" by Jérôme-Martin Langlois. It was once on display in an Amiens museum, but the artwork was lost after the city was bombed during World War I. It's believed that…

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The Independent UK

'All Quiet on the Western Front' leads race for BAFTA awards

Visceral World War I drama “All Quiet on the Western Front” has a field-leading 14 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards

The Independent UK

Sister Andre obituary: World’s oldest person dies aged 118 after surviving two pandemics

Nun Lucile Randon lived through two world wars and 18 French presidents - and worked until she was 108

France 24

‘Tirailleurs’: France’s forgotten colonial soldiers step out of the shadows

The last surviving African soldiers who fought for colonial-era France will be able to live out their final days in their home countries following the French government's U-turn on their pension rights. The decision coincides with the cinema release of a film highlighting the untold sacrifices made by African “tirailleurs”…

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The House last struggled to elect a speaker 100 years ago. Here's what happened

Both Kevin McCarthy and the nominee for speaker a century ago represented a party establishment regarded with hostility by a potent faction of the party. They became the embodiment of its grievances.

France 24

African soldiers: France's forgotten war heroes finally given full pension rights

Thousands of African troops fought bravely in World War I and World War II, as well as in France's colonial wars, but many remain unaware of their sacrifice. There are just 39 Senegalese tirailleurs, or sharpshooters, alive today. They only gained French nationality in 2016, which gave them the right…

Foreign Affairs

No One Would Win a Long War in Ukraine

The West must avoid the mistakes of World War I.

France 24

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to hold the line in Bakhmut

Ukrainian troops are preparing to hold the line in eastern Bakhmut using trench warfare tactics reminiscent of World War I. FRANCE 24 speaks with those fortifying positions around the city.

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