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Poland marks 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Eighty years on from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - the largest Jewish revolt against Nazi Germany during World War II - Poland marked the heroism of those who took part with a warning to the world against sowing hatred.

Reuters

Oppenheimer: Everything we know about the atomic bomb creator's epic new biopic

Christopher Nolan’s next movie will study the man who developed the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Here’s the release date, plot, trailers & more.

LiveScience

Credit Suisse faulted over probe of Nazi-linked accounts

U.S. lawmakers have accused the embattled Swiss bank Credit Suisse of limiting the scope of an internal investigation into Nazi clients and Nazi-linked accounts

The Independent UK

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All the Light We Cannot See: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know

A four-part limited series, the adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See brings Anthony Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to screens in fall 2023.

WhatToWatch

China minister lauds Putin for ‘promoting world peace’

BEIJING: China’s defense minister congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin for “promoting world peace,” underscoring the warm relations between the two nations more than a year after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine sparked Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.

The Times of India

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: An act of desperate resistance by Polish Jews

It is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination of 400,000 Jews crowded into the Warsaw ghetto since July 1942. Three weeks after the final uprising,…

France 24

Key takeaways from Harlan Crow’s interview with The Dallas Morning News on Clarence Thomas

DALLAS — Harlan Crow, the Dallas real estate magnate whose friendship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has drawn national attention, doesn’t believe they’ve done anything wrong.

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People are only just realising that street railings with kinks have a 'vital' purpose

A historian has shared exactly why some street railings have kinks in them, leaving a number of keen history buffs looking about the streets around them in a completely new way

Daily Mirror

More than 6,000 Troops to Play Role in Charles’ Coronation

More than 6,000 British military personnel will take part in the coronation of King Charles III, the UK forces' biggest ceremonial deployment in seven decades, the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Defense said thousands of soldiers, sailors and aviators will escort the king and Camilla, the queen consort, between…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Scholastic wanted to license her children's book — if she cut a part about 'racism'

Maggie Tokuda-Hall was thrilled when the publishing powerhouse approached her to feature her book about a love story set in an internment camp during WWII. Then she read what the deal would involve.

WEKU

80-year trip back home nearing a close for WWII pilot

Sneed exclusive: Remains of Lt. Roy Coulson Harms, who was killed over a bombing raid in Romania in 1943, are returning to family in Grafton, Wis.

Chicago Sun-Times

LZ Granderson: Even Republican voters want more gun laws. Why don't their representatives?

The Alamo and the Riverwalk are the landmarks most associated with San Antonio, but they don't tell you as much about the city as its nickname does: Military City, USA. It's been called that since World War II. The largest joint base in our Department of Defense is in San…

Los Angeles Times

Who stands to gain? Pentagon leaks expose US military secrets

Loose lips sink ships, read the poster during World War II. The US government was then urging citizens to refrain from sharing what might even seem like benign information to the untrained ear. It was only a matter of time before Europe's first ground war since the information age sprang…

France 24

Giants draft history: Players selected at No. 160 overall

The New York Giants are slated to pick at No. 160 overall in the 2023 NFL draft, so here's a look back at their history in that spot.

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WWII POW's boots that he wore in captivity are restored on Repair Shop

John William Britton was captured by the Nazis at the start of World War II in Norway. Later in those sturdy boots he was forced to march for miles across Germany and parts of Poland

The Independent UK

Israeli Holocaust memorial criticizes deal with Poland

Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing Israeli school trips to Poland, saying it recommends a number of “problematic sites” that distort history

ABC News

Thargomindah mates train in Queensland's outback for Kokoda Track

Arid south-west Queensland is a long way from the jungle-covered mountains of the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, but that's no deterrent for these outback mates.

The Independent UK

Biden took jobless rate to 3.5%, but for how much longer?

President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings

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Review: 'Transatlantic' is a clunky, quasi-historical melodrama about Varian Fry

The story of Varian Fry, the Emergency Rescue Committee (later to become today's International Rescue Committee) and its efforts to spirit refugee artists and intellectuals out of Vichy France in the early years of World War II has become a historical, ahistorical, quasi-historical romantic melodrama, "Transatlantic." Written by Anna Winger…

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Transatlantic cast: who's who in the World War II period drama

Transatlantic cast — a who's who guide to the World War II drama.

The Conversation

Reporting is not espionage – but history shows that journalists doing the former get accused of the latter

The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on espionage charges marks an unusual throwback to the old Soviet tactics for handling foreign correspondents.

Chronicle Live

Petition launched to commemorate Sunderland prisoner of war veteran Len Gibson

Len Gibson, from Sunderland, died at the age of 101 - just days before the launch of a book detailing his remarkable life and time as a Japanese prisoner of war on the notorious Burma Railway and Bridge over the River Kwai

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: Will there be a spring counteroffensive?

Europe’s biggest armed conflict since World War II is poised to enter a new phase in the coming weeks

Foreign Affairs

Why Force Fails

The dismal track record of U.S. military interventions.

France 24

Japan's Strict Gun Laws: Tight regulations make shootings rare

In the wake of the recent Nashville primary school shooting in the US, the debate over gun violence has resurfaced. Today's focus takes us to Japan, a country known for its low murder rates. Although gun ownership is not uncommon in Japan, it is tightly regulated. Japan's anti-gun culture has…

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