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Russia dismissive of Ukraine getting U.S. Patriot missiles

Moscow said on Thursday that Ukraine acquiring Patriot missiles from the United States, announced during President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to Washington, won't help settle the conflict or prevent Russia from achieving its goals.

Reuters

Graveyard of cars and trucks discovered at home of veteran who fought in World War Two

Urban explorer Daniel Sims came across the abandoned West Sussex home and spent two hours looking round the treasure trove where he recorded Bedford trucks and a carefully placed trilby hat

Daily Mirror

Former concentration camp secretary, 97, convicted of Nazi war crimes

A 97-year-old woman who worked as a Nazi concentration camp secretary was convicted on Tuesday for her role in the murder of thousands of people, in what could be one of the country's last trials for World War Two crimes.

Reuters

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Japan's manpower-light defence strategy is a flawed 'paper plan', officers say

Japan's plan to undertake its biggest military build-up since World War Two without increasing headcount is flawed, former and serving officers told Reuters, casting doubt over the country's efforts to deter regional rivals China and North Korea.

Reuters

Majority of Japanese oppose raising taxes to fund military expansion -Kyodo

The majority of Japanese people do not support raising taxes to fund military expansion, Kyodo reported on Sunday, citing a survey the news agency conducted after the government announced Japan's biggest military build-up since World War Two.

Reuters

Factbox: What will Japan's military build-up look like?

Japan unveiled a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away from the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades.

Reuters

Factbox: What will Japan's military build-up look like?

Japan is expected to unveil a new national security strategy on Friday along with details of its biggest military build-up since World War Two, in a marked shift away the pacifism that has dominated its political discourse for seven decades.

Reuters

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Japan, Britain and Italy join forces on new combat jet

Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a bridge between Europe and Asia that marks Japan's first major industrial defence collaboration beyond the United States since World War Two.

Reuters

Last Dambuster Johnny Johnson dies aged 101

The last survivor of the World War Two Dambusters has died at the age of 101.

Evening Standard

Analysis: Germany's government looks inward as challenges mount, allies fret

In its first year, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government has driven the biggest overhaul of German policy since World War Two. The next year could be even tougher, further absorbing Berlin's bandwidth to Europe's detriment.

Reuters

Pope compares Ukrainian suffering to WWII Nazi death operation

Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to a Nazi operation that killed some two million people, mostly Jews, in the first years of World War Two.

Reuters

Russia, mired in war, faces economic pain and attempts to isolate it

Russia's invasion of Ukraine plunged Europe into its biggest land war since World War Two, igniting a conflict that has killed thousands, displaced millions, pulverised Ukrainian cities and damaged the global economy.

Reuters

'People are eating, drinking and smoking their way to a shorter life', a health boss has claimed

“Life expectancy is reducing for the first time in decades, the first time since World War Two."

Manchester Evening News

Putin tells mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine: 'We share your pain'

President Vladimir Putin spoke on Friday to a carefully selected group of mothers of Russian soldiers sent to fight in Ukraine who praised his leadership while he told them their sons had not died in vain.

Reuters

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Pensioner spends six years building full-size replica bomber cockpit in his garden

Norman Groom, 85, spent six years building the 6ft high by 15ft long section of the World War Two aircraft in his garage - it is now going under the hammer

Reuters

Robert Clary, Holocaust survivor who starred in TV's 'Hogan's Heroes', dies at 96

Robert Clary, the diminutive Paris-born actor and singer who survived 31 months in Nazi concentration camps but later had no qualms about co-starring in "Hogan's Heroes," the American situation comedy set in a German World War Two POW camp, has died at the age of 96.

Reuters

Six dead after vintage planes collide at Texas air show

Six people were dead after two vintage military planes collided midair on Saturday and crashed in flames before a crowd of thousands who came to see them fly at a World War Two commemorative air show in Dallas, officials said on Sunday.

Reuters

Two aircraft collide and crash at World War Two airshow in Texas

Two vintage military planes collided in midair on Saturday at a World War Two commemorative airshow in Dallas, federal officials said, crashing to the ground before exploding into flames.

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Putin Says West Sows Nonsense about History

President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the West had hammered historical nonsense into the heads of millions of people, including about the real course of World War Two and the Soviet Union's role in the victory over Nazi Germany. Without citing evidence, Putin repeated a claim that Poland has not…

Reuters

Putin says West sows nonsense about history

Reuters

Kremlin: No decree needed to end 'partial mobilisation'

The Kremlin said on Tuesday in a briefing that it did not need to issue a legal decree to end Russia's first military mobilisation since World War Two, a day after President Vladimir Putin said he would consult with lawyers on the matter.

Reuters

Poland demolishes four Red Army monuments

Poland tore down four monuments on Thursday to Red Army soldiers who died during World War Two, as historically strained relations between Warsaw and Moscow hit new lows due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Book gifted by Macron to pope was never Nazi plunder, authorities say

A rare book gifted by French President Emmanuel Macron to Pope Francis was never plundered by the Nazis, its seller and authorities in Warsaw said on Wednesday, after Polish media speculated that it might have been stolen during World War Two.

Reuters

Mussolini's ghost clings to Rome, 100 years after power grab

One hundred years after Benito Mussolini grabbed power in Rome, his photograph still hangs in the prime minister's official residence, striking evidence that Italy has yet to shake off its fascist legacy.

Reuters

Meloni: Italy could be in recession in 2023, faces tough times

The new Italian government faces some of the toughest challenges since World War Two and the economy could sink into recession in 2023, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday in her maiden speech to parliament.

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