World War 2

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…

Look surprised when Sony announces Hell Let Loose, Mortal Kombat X, and PGA Tour 2K21. Oh look, the PS Plus free game line-up has leaked again. Rumour has it the upcoming freebies will include Hell Let Loose for PS5, and Mortal Kombat X and PGA Tour 2K21 for PS4. The information…

And a child-eating cannon Fuga: Melodies Of Steel is set during an anthropomorphic animal anime World War 2 in which your parents have been taken by the dog Nazis. Still with me? You and your fellow cat children find Howl's Moving Tank in a cave and set about getting your…

In the immediate years after the Second World War, attendances for football matches in the UK increased significantly. By 1948-49, attendances reached 41 million, the peak for the Football League. To put that in context, the total attendance for the Premier League and EFL in 2018-19- the last full season…

The German capital reasserts itself as a business hub CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that the capital of Europe’s most powerful economy is poor, bolshie, chronically indebted and utterly reliant on subsidies from richer states. The debacle of the construction of the Berlin-Brandenburg airport, completed in 2020 nine years late and…

Hawaii officials have announced plans to spend $1m removing a popular mountain trail known as the Stairway to Heaven, which they say has become the scene of “rampant illegal trespassing” and safety concerns despite the public being banned from using it. Tens of thousands of people have climbed the Haiku…