World War 2

The Dolmen of Guadalperal, also known as the Spanish Stonehenge, is seen due to the receding waters of the Valdecanas reservoir in the outskirts of El Gordo, Spain on Aug. 3, 2022.SUSANA VERA/Reuters Weeks of baking drought across Europe have seen water levels in rivers and lakes fall to levels…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comAug 20 (Reuters) - Weeks of baking drought across Europe have seen water levels in rivers and lakes fall to levels few can remember, exposing long-submerged treasures - and some unwanted hazards. In Spain, suffering its worst drought in decades, archaeologists have been…

A commemoration marking the 80th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid is held in Dieppe Gardens in Windsor, Ont., on Friday, August 19, 2022. Photo by Dax Melmer /Windsor Star The memory of those who fought and sacrificed in the Dieppe Raid took centre stage Friday in Windsor. Advertisement 2 This…

OTTAWA — With the help of a cane, 100-year-old Gordon Fennell rose to his feet in the Square du Canada, a park near the coastline in Dieppe, France, where the former soldier came ashore 80 years ago. The crowd of local residents, students and dignitaries gave him a standing ovation…

George Brown of Leamington fought at Dieppe, was captured, escaped, swam into the channel and was rescued. Shown is a photo of Brown, foreground, as he lay injured on the beach at Dieppe. It was Canada’s bloodiest day on the battlefields of the Second World War, and it was also…

Theresa Sims, Windsor Indigenous storyteller, will be accompanying vets and is a special guest of the Dieppe Raid 80th anniversary that Windsor is hosting. Sims poses Aug. 12, 2022, with a photo of her father Robert James Sims who survived the Dieppe Raid on Aug. 19, 1942, but was seriously…

Australian minister has marked Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day to remind the public of the date on which victory in the pacific ended the second world war. VP (Victory in the Pacific) Day, also referred to as VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, is celebrated on Aug. 15 to commemorate…

By Irene Wang and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Prime Minster Fumio Kishida vowed on the anniversary of Japan’s World War Two surrender on Monday that his country would never again wage war, as members of his cabinet visited a shrine that honours war dead, angering South Korea and China.…

Speaking at an international donors’ conference in Copenhagen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged more funding and weapons for Kyiv. “The sooner we stop Russia, the sooner we can feel safe,” he said. Estonia imposed tough new restrictions on visas for Russian nationals, even as Germany signalled it didn’t want a…

It was no easy task to clear the bomb. About 3,000 people living nearby were evacuated for the disposal operation, the army said. The area’s airspace was shut down, and navigation along that stretch of the waterway as well as traffic on a railway line and state road close by…