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Kishida prioritizes arms buildup, reversing low birthrate

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan faces the severest security environment in the region since the end of World War II and pledged to push a military buildup under a newly adopted security strategy as well as tackle rapidly declining births

The Independent UK

$NATO alliance still strong on Ukraine but fractures are emerging$

NATO alliance still strong on Ukraine but fractures are emerging

WASHINGTON: The billions of United States dollars in new arms for Ukraine announced this month — including British tanks, American fighting vehicles, and howitzers from Denmark and Sweden — are testament to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies after nearly a year…

Bangkok Post

The Vexing Rise of the Transnational Right

Lessons from interwar Europe.

Foreign Affairs

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Germany's new defence minister faces pressure on tanks, army upgrade

There will be no grace period for Germany's new defence minister who takes office as pressure is piling on Berlin to send battle tanks to Ukraine and to upgrade its dilapidated armed forces in the face of Europe's biggest conflict since World War II.

Reuters

Gina Lollobrigida, Italian film legend, dies at age 95

“Lollo,” as she was lovingly nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II.

Chicago Sun-Times

Myron ‘Mike’ Eberle, who never stopped marveling that he survived the Battle of the Bulge, dead at 99

Mr. Eberle dodged death at least three times during World War II. Once, he took cover from mortar and machine gun fire under a cow.

Chicago Sun-Times

South Korea mulls compensating forced labourers via a public fund

Some victims of forced labour under the Japanese during World War II denounced the plan as ‘humiliating’.

Al Jazeera

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Russia using old Ukrainian weapons sent in goodwill on front line

During a disarmament campaign after fall of Soviet Union, Moscow received weapons as payment for Kyiv’s gas debts.

Al Jazeera

China's blunt words to Australia and Japan

Chinese ambassador Xiao Qian says Japan's failure to apologise for its conduct during World War II means it could again go to war with Australia in the future.

AAP

‘Freedom isn’t free:’ WWII veteran turns 101, looks back on his service

BOSTON -- Mixing in laughs with deep insight, World War II veteran Russell Phipps looked back on his time as a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps after touring the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts.

Boston Herald

Movies, Music and TV Helped Pelé to Even More Stardom

Whether or not Pelé scored almost 1,300 goals in his professional soccer career, all of his biographers agree that the three-time World Cup champion wrote more than 100 songs and sold more than 100,000 copies of one of his albums. He was also in the movies, notably in the World…

Asharq Al-Awsat

German submarine lying off Ayrshire coast gave up enemy's greatest WW2 secrets

The U-boat's last mission played a pivotal role in Britain winning the war.

Daily Record

How Australia is recovering from the pandemic’s migration slow down

During the early stages of the pandemic we experienced negative net overseas migration for the first time since World War II in 2020/21.

The New Daily

Japan Steps Up

Asia’s rising threats have convinced Tokyo to abandon its defense taboos.

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Salon

George Santos may "not even be Jewish"

Republican outed for making up his resume appears to have lied about being the grandson of Jews who fled Nazis

Roll Call

Criminal, ethics probes sought over background of Rep.-elect George Santos

Republican Rep.-elect George Santos says he will address questions about his biography and business background next week.

ABC News

Metal detectorist finds long-lost WWII sweetheart bracelet in Tasmanian front yard

A glint of silver, hidden in the soil of a front yard in regional Tasmania, turns out to be the long-lost heirloom of a wartime romance.

WEKU

A German court has convicted a 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp

A German court convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder as a secretary to the commander of a World War II concentration camp. She was given a 2-year suspended sentence.

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Los Angeles Times

Commentary: As a Holocaust survivor, the most important thing I can do is share my story

From Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., antisemitism is once again on the rise, being echoed by celebrities with wide audiences such as Kanye West and Kyrie Irving. To Jewish people who remember the Holocaust — or those, like myself, who survived it — this shameless bigotry is nothing new. Although…

The Independent UK

German court to deliver verdict on ex-secretary at Nazi camp

A German court is expected to deliver its verdict on a 97-year-old woman charged with being an accessory to murder for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp during World War II

Liverpool Echo

'Brave and funny' Liverpool man who has lived in same house for 75 years

The incredible life of Alf Ridpath who now has dementia and recently celebrated his 100th birthday

The Independent UK

Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, US says

The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Dr. J

WEKU

Eyeing China, Japan lifts longtime restrictions to allow major defense buildup

The policy change is widely seen as a major step toward rearming Japan more than seven decades after its demilitarization after World War II.

Tribune News Service

Stanford fields new questions about internship program named for Nazi war criminal

New attention shined on a decades old program at Stanford University this week, when a political writer raised questions about an internship named for a long-dead industrialist who used slave labor to support the Nazi regime and was convicted of war crimes.

Foreign Affairs

Russia’s New Theory of Victory

Christmas Day will be a grim milestone for the Ukrainian people. It will mark almost exactly ten months since Russian forces crossed into their country, bringing devastation on a scale not seen in Europe since World War II. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have been killed. Millions have fled their…

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