Japan calls Russia nuclear threat ‘unacceptable’ on Hiroshima anniversary
TOKYO, Aug 6, 2023 (AFP) - Japan's prime minister hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the…
3 years ago
WWII
German president asks forgiveness on Warsaw ghetto anniversary
by Stanislaw WASZAK Agence France-Presse WARSAW, Poland (AFP) -- Germany's president on Wednesday sought pardon for crimes committed by Germans…
3 years ago
‘Burning all around’: Warsaw ghetto survivors recall uprising
by Bernard Osser with Michael Blum in Jerusalem Agence France-Presse WARSAW, Poland (AFP) -- Death, terror, hunger... Eighty years after…
3 years ago
German court convicts 97-year-old in one of last Holocaust trials
Itzehoe, Germany (AFP) by Céline LE PRIOUX A court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of…
4 years ago
Nagasaki mayor warns of ‘crisis’ on atom bomb anniversary
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Nuclear weapons present a "tangible and present crisis" after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the mayor of…
4 years ago
‘Deepest shipwreck’: US WWII ship found off Philippines
MANILA , Philippines (AFP) -- A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II has been found nearly 7,000 meters…
4 years ago
Nagasaki marks atomic bomb anniversary with sombre ceremony
by Kyoko HASEGAWA TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday commemorated the 76th anniversary of its…
5 years ago
25,000 evacuated after WWII bomb found in German city
FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) -- Thousands of people, some of them shaken, were evacuated Wednesday from a neighbourhood of Germany's financial…
5 years ago
‘Deepest wreck dive’ reaches US WWII ship off Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) -- A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II and lying nearly 6,500 meters below sea…
5 years ago
Mass evacuation in Frankfurt as WWII bomb is defused
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) -- Nearly 13,000 residents were evacuated in Frankfurt on Sunday as experts defused an unexploded World War…
6 years ago
Several wounded in WWI memorial attack at Jeddah cemetery for non-Muslims: France
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Several people were wounded Wednesday in a bomb attack at a World War I commemoration ceremony…
6 years ago
WWII bomb goes off in Poland during defusal op
by Stanislaw WASZAK / Anna Maria JAKUBEK WARSAW, Poland (AFP) -- A massive World War II bomb exploded during a…
6 years ago
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