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On Japan's Yonaguni island, fears of being on the front line of a Taiwan conflict

Japan's westernmost island lies in sight of Taiwan, less than 70 miles away. On Thursday, a Chinese missile landed near Yonaguni. Japan has been strengthening defenses across its southwest islands.

WEKU

Review: 'Mercury Pictures Presents,' by Anthony Marra

FICTION: An entertaining and occasionally edifying look at European immigrants making movies in Hollywood during World War II.

Tribune News Service

Bailey tries to explain past Holocaust remark after Pritzker, Jewish leaders and others denounce it

“The attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II doesn’t even compare on a shadow of the life that has been lost with abortion since its legalization,” Bailey said in a 2017 video. On Tuesday, Bailey tried to smooth out his earlier comments, saying in a statement the Holocaust…

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker launches ad criticizing GOP rival for saying Holocaust ‘doesn’t compare’ to lives lost to abortion

CHICAGO — Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker launched a TV spot on Tuesday criticizing Republican challenger Darren Bailey for a 2017 statement in which the wealthy downstate farmer contended the Holocaust during World War II pales in comparison with lives lost through abortion.

Chicago Tribune

Treasure hunters' quest to track down Adolf Hitler's £19bn gold hoards

By the end of the war Nazis had more than £19billion of gold, but it disappeared – buried, hidden or sent abroad – and gold hunters have been searching for it ever since

Daily Mirror

Carl 'Charles' Webb's prisoner-of-war brother bears resemblance to Somerton Man

Researchers have found a photograph of Carl Webb's brother, who died a prisoner of war, and he bears a "reasonable" resemblance to the Somerton Man.

ABC News

Chinese company eyes Solomon Islands deep-water port

A Chinese state-owned company is negotiating to buy a forestry plantation with a deep-water port and World War II airstrip in Solomon Islands amid concerns that China wants to establish a naval foothold in the South Pacific country

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War and Justice: The true story of the first British soldier convicted of murder and what happened to him

War and Justice: The Case of Marine A on Channel 4 tells the story of Alexander Blackman

Wales Online

Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, has died at age 98

Sandoval was one of the hundreds of Navajos who were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to help transmit messages in World War II for the Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today.

WEKU

Will Bunch: America’s real college debt: How we failed an entire generation

Ewan Johnson’s college dreams nearly crashed down on him after just four days. The saga had started in the mid-2010s near the end of what by his own admission had been an unambitious time in high school. Then, his dreams were abruptly transformed by an unplanned trip across the Delaware…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Raymond Allen Murray Jr., one of the Montford Point Marines who broke color barrier in the service in WWII, dead at 99

Despite being treated as “less than a human being,” the members of the segregated unit “fought gallantly,” says James T. Averhart, president of the National Montford Point Marine Association. “This is not just Black history. It is not just Marine Corps history. It is American history.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Japan's push for UNESCO to list divisive gold mine delayed

Japan’s push to obtain UNESCO World Heritage recognition for a former gold mine key to the nation’s industrialization will be delayed

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka debt crisis is a lesson for all countries

A tragedy is unfolding in Sri Lanka. The economy is paralysed, and because the country's debts are unsustainable, it cannot borrow. The country is suffering the world's worst economic crisis since World War II.

Bangkok Post

Ken Burns interview: Holocaust series on PBS speaks to today's America

"I will not work on a more important film," Burns said during a half-hour phone interview.

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102-year-old WWII veteran from segregated mail unit honored

A 102-year-old woman is being honored for her service with an all-female, all-Black military unit that got mail to U.S. troops in Europe during World War II

The Independent UK

US sends Sherman, Kennedy to visit the Solomon Islands

The U.S. is sending a high-profile diplomatic delegation to visit the Solomon Islands next week led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and including Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy

ABC News

Caroline Kennedy sworn in as US ambassador, confirms she will travel to Solomon Islands

Caroline Kennedy is sworn in as the new United States ambassador to Australia in Canberra. She will travel to the Solomon Islands next week to mark the Battle of Guadalcanal and suggests the US will continue to expand its Pacific footprint.

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Centuries-old Mines Stirring Japan-South Korea Tensions

Under a split-top mountain on the Japanese island of Sado lies a network of centuries-old mines that have sparked a new diplomatic row with South Korea. Some of the gold and silver mines of Sado, off Japan's west coast, are believed to have started operating as early as the 12th…

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The Independent UK

AP exposes the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The 50th Anniversary

The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.”

ABC News

Grandmother's WWII Darwin-Sydney exodus celebrated in school's Indigenous curriculum

Just 10 when she and other Aboriginal children fled Croker Island when nearby Darwin was bombed during World War II, an influential grandmother's story is being kept alive by her grandchildren.

Inverse

30 years ago, the worst Marvel movie ever almost changed the course of superhero cinema

'Captain America' was one of the first Marvel movies of the '90s — it would be a clear indicator of what fans could expect from their '90s superhero movies.

WEKU

How prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine compares to hunting Nazis

Eli Rosenbaum spent his career hunting down Nazis after World War II. Now, he will use those skills to seek out war criminals in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Tribune News Service

Patrick Reusse: A hockey star in a troubled country? We’ve seen this film before

The Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989. This was the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. Eastern Europe was mostly freed from the "Iron Curtain'' imposed by Russia after World War II by the early '90s.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Lessons from Normandy: War is a tool of last resort

I recently visited the beaches of Normandy and was awestruck at the scale of what took place there 78 years ago. The sheer horror it must have been is hard to capture in words, but the scars are still visible.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’: Northlight delivers romantic wartime letters full of romance, humor

Sarah Price, Casey Hoekstra crackle with chemistry as the couple courting by mail.

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