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Brisbane's Cairncross naval graving dry dock target of campaign to save city heritage

Brisbane residents are making an 11th hour bid to have an historic dry dock added to the council's heritage register before one of the state's biggest construction companies fills in the site.

ABC News

The amazing Glasgow crime tale of notorious safecracker Johnny 'Gentle' Ramensky

He was once regarded as the best safecracker in the world and held the record for escaping from one of Scotland's toughest jails.

Glasgow Live

Tech & Science Daily: Expert on Nazi shipwreck chemical leak

A professor of risk and disaster reduction from University College London has told Tech & Science Daily we should be concerned about shipwrecks, munition and even nuclear waste that was dumped in our seas and oceans after World War II.

Evening Standard

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Why so many people have moved to Florida – and into harm's way

Hurricane Ian barreled ashore with winds of up to 150 mph (240 kph) on Florida’s southwest coast on Sept. 28, 2022.

The Conversation

The GI Bill left behind Black World War II vets. Now there's a move to fix that

Black vets fought overseas but returned home to segregation — which made it harder for them to benefit from the GI Bill. Some in Congress hope to remedy that injustice.

WEKU

As China threatens Taiwan, Okinawa braces for war - Roll Call

Worries abound in Okinawa about being dragged into a conflict with China, given the massive U.S. military footprint there.

Roll Call

Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school

There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report.

WEKU

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Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school

Environmental investigation consultants have found significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II

The Independent UK

With far-right leaders, Italy remembers WWII roundup of Jews

Italy’s new right-wing political leadership has marked the 79th anniversary of the World War II roundup of Rome’s Jews with calls for such a horror to never occur again

The Independent UK

Iceberg, Weisberg, Goldberg, What's the Difference?

Government-dictated racial and ethnic classifications fail to account for the diversity within categories.

Reason

Lithuanians remain calm, but prepare for potential conflict

Officials and locals are ready should Lithuania be dragged into the Ukraine war, and a sense of resilience dominates.

Al Jazeera

Holocaust-surviving lawmaker opens Italy's Senate, even as the far-right takes office

Liliana Segre presided over the first seating of Parliament since general elections last month, when Italians voted in their first far-right government since World War II.

WEKU

High in Colorado mountains, Biden designates new Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument

TENNESSEE PASS, Colo. — President Joe Biden stood at the ruins of a World War II winter warfare training camp high in the Colorado mountains Wednesday, formally designating a new, 84-square-mile Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument, and celebrated the wildness of the West.

The Denver Post

Biden, in Colorado, designates first new national monument

President Joe Biden designated the first national monument of his administration at Camp Hale, a World War II-era training site in Colorado

The Independent UK

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The Hindu

The coalition of the world

India’s Presidency of the G20, SCO and UNSC is a historic opportunity for reinventing the United Nations

Tribune News Service

Nobel Peace Prize jointly awarded to Belarus rights activist, Russian and Ukrainian groups

Human rights advocates in the former Soviet neighbors of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to fight authoritarian regimes as Europe’s worst military confrontation since World War II is roiling the region.

France 24

Annie Ernaux’s Nobel prize celebrates a uniquely resonant voice in French literature

Annie Ernaux became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, in recognition of the “courage and clinical acuity” with which she has mined her personal experiences as a woman of working-class background to explore life in France since World War II.

Newsroom.co.nz

The deadly remnants of a war that won't go away

What do we do about cleaning up the bombs left behind in the Pacific after World War II?

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Zenger

WWII Vet Describes Riding Out Ian On Sanibel Island: ‘It’s Unbelievable’

Joe Venuto has called many places home throughout his 98 years.

Al Jazeera

Putin’s mobilisation and the potential for a political fallout

Attempts to boost forces in Ukraine appear chaotic and have unleashed rare shows of criticism.

Chronicle Live

AC/DC's Brian Johnson turns 75: From Gateshead schoolboy to rock superstar

Born on October 5, 1947, in Dunston, Gateshead, Brian Johnson was singer with Tyneside band Geordie, before joining rock supergroup AC/DC in 1980 and finding instant fame and fortune

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Since the Founding of the Communist Party

Here are the key dates in China since the founding of the Communist Party (CCP) which has grown into one of the world's most powerful political organizations as brought by AFP. - July 1921: Founded in secret - In the summer of 1921, Mao Zedong and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist…

ABC News

How the Sydney United 58 controversy highlights 'old soccer' tensions at heart of 'new football'

After alleged fascist chants and Nazi salutes at Saturday's Australia Cup final, Australian football must reckon with the darker parts of its past as it works towards its future, writes Samantha Lewis.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Poland Demands $1.3 Trillion in War Damages from Germany

Poland’s foreign minister on Monday signed an official note to Germany requesting the payment of about $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II. Zbigniew Rau said the note will be handed to Germany’s Foreign Ministry. The signing comes on the eve…

The Independent UK

Poland demands $1.3 trillion in World War II damages from Germany

Poland's foreign minister has signed an official note to Germany requesting some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II

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