World War 2

A mission sponsored by undersea technology company Caladan Oceanic and led by entrepreneur, explorer and retired U.S. naval officer Victor Vescovo has announced they have identified a section of wreckage belonging to a World War II destroyer and is the deepest shipwreck ever found. The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Johnston (DD…

Britain will on Wednesday push G7 allies to get tough on China over "pernicious practices" that undermine the international trading system, calling for an overhaul of outdated and ineffective World Trade Organization rules. Trade minister Liz Truss will host her G7 counterparts and the new head of the WTO, using…

The province plans to use infrastructure spending to help boost the economy out of "the worst recession since the Second World War." Author of the article: Jason Magder  •  Montreal Gazette Construction of the REM at Highway 40 in Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette The province plans to…

SynopsisModi is PM at a time when the global power context is witnessing some fundamental shifts, in which a new political pact among democracies is very much in the offing. The last time this happened was after World War 2 among the liberal western democracies that arraigned themselves under a…

Home News (Image credit: Marvel) Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star in War Magician, a new World War II movie from director Colin Treverrow, Deadline reports. War Magician will tell the unlikely story of Jasper Maskelyne, a British illusionist who used magic to defeat Nazi field marshal Erwin Rommel in…

Two weeks ago, The New Yorker published my article “Seeking the True Story of the Comfort Women.” I reported on recent claims by J. Mark Ramseyer, a Harvard Law School professor and Japanese legal-studies scholar, who said that the story of Korean “comfort women” forced into sexual servitude for the…

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The BBC has announced the cast for SAS: Rogue Heroes, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s dramatized account of how Britain’s Special Forces unit was formed in the darkest days of World War Two. Connor Swindells (Sex Education) will play David Stirling, with Jack O’Connell (The North Water) as Paddy Mayne,…

GENEVA: Covax will distribute 14.4 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to 31 more countries next week, the WHO said yesterday as it warned people not to waste, through complacency, the hope that vaccines bring. The Covax global vaccine-sharing facility shipped more than 20 million doses to 20 countries as the scheme…

Windows were blown out and homes damaged after a Second World War bomb was detonated in Exeter, police said. The controlled explosion took place at 6.10pm on Saturday after the 1,000kg "Hermann" bomb was discovered on a building site in Glenthorne Road on Friday. Police evacuated people from 2,600 homes,…