World War 2

Members of the University of Hong Kong Students' Union marked the Liberation Day anniversary on Monday, but not before they were stopped from approaching the City Hall Memorial Shrine and warned of breaching the social distancing rules by the police. The ceremony was to mark the liberation of Hong Kong…

The future of Germany’s new ambassador to Poland hangs in the balance amid a press storm over his father’s past as a senior officer under the Nazis. Earlier in the summer, Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, “a former Nato intelligence chief, well-regarded ambassador to Prague and capable jazz guitarist” was nominated to take…

French President Emmanuel Macron walks during a visit of the ruins in the French martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France June 10, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe The site, at the village of Oradour-sur-Glane near the western city of Limoges, commemorates the hundreds of men, women and children who were killed in June…

As Bernie Sanders noted: Nero fiddled as Rome burned, while Donald Trump golfs -- and Justin Trudeau prorogues Parliament, it could be added. With Canada reeling from the pandemic crisis, our prime minister prorogued Parliament right after he selected Bill Morneau to take the hit for the government's WE Charity scandal, freeing up his longtime finance minister…

August 15, 1945 marked the end of the war that involved more than a million Canadians During the Second World War, Canadians from across the country and all walks of life would enlist for our country. In all, more than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders served in uniform and countless…

Wartime allies Britain and Canada both paid tribute Saturday to veterans of the multinational Second World War campaign against Japan, which formally ended 75 years ago some three months after Nazi Germany had been vanquished in Europe.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives to attend the national service of remembrance marking the 75th anniversary…

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged never to "repeat the tragedy of war" as commemorations marking VJ Day — the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Asia — got underway Saturday.With many events muted this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, a somber Abe wore a…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Lindsay Dufty remembers seeing the pilots’ faces as Japanese bombers descended on Darwin in February 1942, the first ever enemy attack over Australian soil.He remembers that, with no artillery experience at the time, he felt worried he might let down his mates in an anti-aircraft gun team.“Unfortunately,…

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TOKYO (Reuters) - In a 4 1/2-minute radio speech on Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender in World War Two, telling his subjects he had resolved to pave the way for peace by “enduring the unendurable”.FILE PHOTO: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows after placing a flower at…