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Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting that shocks nation

TOKYO — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — died after being shot at a campaign event Friday in an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare.

Tribune News Service

Amid conflict, Latvia leads Baltics in felling Soviet memorials

Momentum to remove Soviet monuments gathers pace during Russia’s war on Ukraine, but issue remains divisive.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting that shocks nation

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — died after being shot at a campaign event Friday in an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare.

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Shinzo Abe, divisive, powerful former Japan PM, assassinated

Shinzo Abe, a divisive archconservative who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and remained a powerful and influential politician after leaving office, has died after being shot during a campaign speech

The Independent UK

Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting at campaign rally

Tribune News Service

Mars bar celebrates 90th birthday - and releases archive photos from last nine decades

The chocolate bar was created in Slough in 1932 - and over 30 billion Mars bars have been sold since then, even during World War II

Daily Mirror

The Quest for a Libertarian Island Paradise

Raymond B. Craib's new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government funded entirely by voluntary contributions.

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Decades after WWII, Chinese-American vet gets Congressional Gold Medal for his Army service

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — More than 75 years after his service in World War II, a 98-year-old Chinese-American veteran in Deerfield Beach received a Congressional Gold Medal to honor his service to the United States.

Miami Herald

Food as rebellion

'Eating food is our right. If our tongues aren't made of free will, it will be difficult to establish democracy. If we aren't allowed to eat our favourite food, how can we have desired politics?" said Asst Prof Chatichai Muksong, lecturer in history at Srinakharinwirot University, who has studied the…

Bangkok Post

Germany: 101-year-old appeals conviction in Nazi guard case

A German court says that a 101-year-old man who was convicted last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has appealed

The Independent UK

Mount Isa's World War II underground hospital, air raid shelter celebrates 80-year anniversary

The bombing of Darwin triggered the construction of Australia's only underground hospital, and 80 years on the heritage-listed landmark has become a symbol of coming together during crisis and chaos.

ABC News

World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead

A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona

The Independent UK

World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead

A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona

The Independent UK

Woody Williams, the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions.

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The Conversation

Putin’s propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that's why it works

Russia’s war against Ukraine is pressing into its fifth month – despite several rounds of failed peace talks, and Western countries’ issuing severe economic sanctions against Russia.

Tribune News Service

5 new summer reads for those sunny days

It's summer, and here with it are all the pleasures of reading outside. Consuming a good book out in the world binds you closer to it: I can still remember the exact feel, smell and location of the grassy hill where I finished "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" during…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A notebook with family recipes reminds me of Ukraine’s strength

“Sew the necks up on one side. Mix flour, fried onions and chicken fat and stuff the necks.”

The Independent UK

Live updates | NATO chief: alliance in 'biggest challenge'

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance faces its “biggest challenge” since World War II amid the war in Ukraine

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NATO chief: alliances faces biggest challenge since WWII

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance faces its biggest challenge since World War II amid the war in Ukraine

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A German court sentences 101-year-old to 5 years for role as Nazi guard

The regional court in Germany convicted the man of 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.

The Independent UK

Germany: former Nazi guard, 101, jailed for aiding murder

A 101-year-old man has been convicted in Germany of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder for serving at the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Republicans are banning books about historical truths their own leaders have apologized for

On a recent outing my wife and I took in a touring exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution titled “Righting a Wrong.” Within the modest confines of a single room at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, the exhibit conveyed an epic tragedy: the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Deepest Shipwreck': US WWII Ship Found Off Philippines

A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 meters (23,000 feet) below sea level off the Philippines, making it the world's deepest shipwreck ever located, an American exploration team said. The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during a battle off the central island…

Al Jazeera

Ukraine war: Is Kazakhstan going cool on Russia?

President Tokayev publicly refused to recognise separatist regions in Ukraine, enraging some Kremlin officials.

The Independent UK

Black veteran groups seek policy agenda on racial inequities

A coalition of former and current service members is holding the first-ever conference for Black veterans in the nation’s capital Thursday

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