World War 2

St. Joseph Island's Ken Hanson, 89, served as ground crew member with RCAF Ken Hanson, a St. Joseph Island resident, is a Second World War veteran who has preserved his memories of those years in sketches and watercolour paintings. His collection of original art work, produced during his wartime experience overseas…

SASKATOON -- Moose Cree man Charles Henry Byce was the most decorated Indigenous soldier from the Second World War, being awarded both the Military Medal and the Distinguished Conduct Medal. “Just to think that dad went from residential school to Buckingham Palace, where he was decorated by King George VI…

Vanguard won't join the pantheon of Call of Duty games, but it's a decent stop-gap for those waiting for Modern Warfare's return. It feels like a stop-gap year for Call of Duty. Developer Sledgehammer Games finds itself sandwiched in-between the mega sub-brands that are Modern Warfare and Black Ops, and…

The discovery of F.O. William Joseph Kyle's watch led Veterans Affairs Canada—and his family—to where his plane went down during the Second World War In November 1990, a hunter found a watch while trekking through the jungle in northwest Burma (now Myanmar). It was weathered, as if it had spent…

AN ANTI-VACCINE activist group stormed an NHS ward wielding bogus World War 2-inspired legal notices, citing supposed evidence of Covid being a "hoax". Colchester: Anti-vaxxers storm hospital to serve 'legal notices' Sign up to receive our rundown of the day's top stories direct to your inbox Invalid email We use…

LETTERS: THE upcoming 50th anniversary of the Five Powers Defence Arrangement (FPDA) marks a significant milestone of exceptional foresight and strategic collective security pact forged in facing security needs after World War 2 and during the Cold War. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd...Read More

People cast their ballots during the parliamentary elections in Lovosice, Czech Republic, October 8, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo PRAGUE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Czech voters evicted the communists from parliament on Saturday for the first time since the end of World War Two, voting out a party whose forebears ruled the…

In victory, it’s advisable to be magnanimous. This sentiment, typically attributed to Winston Churchill (it’s in the frontispiece to his multivolume History of the Second World War), is understood to be a moral imperative, but it’s also a strategic one. Magnanimity in victory is strategically wise because, if you don’t…

Author of the article: Two lawmakers stand next to the empty seat of the accused 96-year-old former secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp, at the Landgericht Itzehoe court, before a trial against her, in Itzehoe, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. Photo by Markus Schreiber / Pool…

A medical worker wearing protective gear stands next to an ambulance outside a hospital for patients infected with COVID-19 in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in 2020 by the largest amount since World War Two, according to…