World War II

Secret UK women’s codecracking army gets belated recognition for WWII work

By Caroline TAÏX CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, April 23, 2024 (AFP) - During World War II, dozens of women Cambridge University…

Stalingrad: 80 years ago, a victory that changed World War II

PARIS, France (AFP) - The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German…

US Congress reintroduces bipartisan bill to expedite visa issuance for children of Filipino WWII veterans

    by Alfred Acenas (EBC Hawaii-Pacific) Eagle News Service HONOLULU, Hawaii (Eagle News) – Three US senators and two…

South Korean court orders Japan to compensate former sex slaves

  by Kang Jin-kyu Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- A South Korean court on Friday ordered the…

Briton, Australian killed clearing WWII bomb in Solomons

  HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AFP) -- Two bomb disposal experts from Britain and Australia died in the Solomon Islands when…

Thousands sign Hiroshima petition to save A-bomb buildings

TOKYO Japan (AFP) -- Thousands of people have signed an online petition against the planned demolition of two early 20th-century…

Seoul dissolves Japan fund for WWII sex slaves

  SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- A foundation set up to compensate victims of Japan's wartime sex slavery has been…

Remains of Nazi victims to be buried in Berlin, decades late

  by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) -- More than seven decades after the end of…

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a 70-year-old aspiration

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…

Monthly pension of war vets increased to P20,000 under approved Senate bill

  (Eagle News) – Pensions of eligible living senior war veterans would be increased from the current P5,000 to P20,000…

WWII bomb forces mass evacuation in central Berlin

by Frank ZELLER Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) -- The planned disposal of an unexploded World War II bomb…

Limang vintage bomb, nahukay sa Daraga, Albay

Ni Jorge Halliare Eagle News Service DARAGA, Albay (Eagle News) - Limang bomba na gamit pa noong panahon ng Hapon…

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