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By Caroline TAÏX CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, April 23, 2024 (AFP) – During World War II, dozens of women Cambridge University students worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes, but only now are the unsung heroes getting recognition. At least 77 women from the women-only Newnham College were drafted to Bletchley Park, the code-breaking centre north of London, during the conflict. It was there that mathematician Alan Turing decoded messages encrypted by […]
PARIS, France (AFP) – The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army, remains a powerful symbol of patriotism in Russia as it presses its war in Ukraine. One of the largest battles in history, the fighting raged for more than six months in 1942 and 1943 before the Russians defeated Nazi soldiers trapped in the ruined city in the depths of […]
by Alfred Acenas (EBC Hawaii-Pacific) Eagle News Service HONOLULU, Hawaii (Eagle News) – Three US senators and two congressmen reintroduced the Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act on Wednesday, May 19, which would speed up the visa processing for children of Filipino World War II veterans. U.S. Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), along with Representatives Ed Case (D-Hawaii) and Don Young (R-Alaska), stressed the importance of this act for […]
by Kang Jin-kyu Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or their families, in an unprecedented ruling that prompted an immediate denunciation by Tokyo. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Japan should pay the victims 100 million won ($91,000) each. It is the first civilian legal case in South Korea against Tokyo […]
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AFP) — Two bomb disposal experts from Britain and Australia died in the Solomon Islands when World War II ordnance they were helping to clear exploded, officials said Monday. Police said the pair — who worked for the charity Norwegian People’s Aid — were storing munitions without permission in a residential area of the capital Honiara when the blast occurred on Sunday afternoon. Norwegian People’s Aid named the pair as Briton […]
TOKYO Japan (AFP) — Thousands of people have signed an online petition against the planned demolition of two early 20th-century buildings that remained intact after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima devastated the Japanese city. A local government official confirmed to AFP on Tuesday they had received the petition signed by 12,000 citizens calling for the preservation of the buildings that stand 2.7 kilometres (2 miles) from the 1945 blast. The three-storey red-brick buildings are part […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A foundation set up to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery has been formally dissolved, South Korean officials said Friday, the latest chapter in a bitter dispute over the two countries’ shared history. The $8.8 million fund was established in 2015 as Tokyo and Seoul made a renewed effort to push past their continuing row over Japan’s brutal 1910 – 1945 occupation. The money — which the two […]
by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — More than seven decades after the end of World War II, the remains of political prisoners executed by the Nazis and dissected for research will be given a proper burial in Berlin. The microscopic remains — 300 tissue samples each a hundredth of a millimetre thin and around one by one centimetre large — were uncovered by the descendants of the late Hermann […]
Paris, France | AFP | Friday 12/7/2018 – 02:59 UTC+1 | by Claude CASTERAN On December 10, 1948 — three years after the Allied victory over the Nazis — the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the hopes of creating a better world after the horrors of the war. It was the first time that countries agreed on fundamental rights and freedoms to be protected on a universal scale, for all people. It was also one of […]
(Eagle News) – Pensions of eligible living senior war veterans would be increased from the current P5,000 to P20,000 under the Senate Bill No. 1766 which was approved on Monday by the Senate. This will benefit some 6,000 still living veterans of World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War who will be now eligible to receive P20,000 monthly pension — representing a 300 percent increase of their previous pension. The bill’s author and […]
by Frank ZELLER Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — The planned disposal of an unexploded World War II bomb Friday will force a mass evacuation around Berlin’s central railway station and likely spark transport chaos in the German capital. Trains, trams, buses and even some flights at the city’s Tegel airport will be halted when a police bomb squad starts defusing the British 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) bomb unearthed on a building site. Authorities have declared […]
Ni Jorge Halliare Eagle News Service DARAGA, Albay (Eagle News) – Limang bomba na gamit pa noong panahon ng Hapon ang narekober sa construction site ng Jiggy’s Terminal sa Purok 1, Brgy. Kimantong, Daraga, Albay nitong weekend. Sabado ng umaga nang mahukay ang limang ‘155 howitzer projectiles’ vintage bomb na pinaniniwalaang inihulog ng mga Hapon noong World War II ngunit hindi pumutok. Ayon sa Daraga Police, bandang 8:45 ng umaga noong Sabado nang makahukay ang […]
