World War 2

ATHENS (Reuters) - Manolis Glezos, a prominent Greek whose act of defiance against Nazi occupation during World War Two was a rallying cry for the country’s resistance movement, died on Monday, authorities said. He was 97. FILE PHOTO: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) greets former Syriza leftist party lawmaker…

Britain's Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick holds a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) digital news conference with Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Jenny Harries (not pictured), at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain March 29, 2020. Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD…

According to Renault chairman Jean-Dominique Senard, his company would be willing to accept French government guarantees in order to strengthen its finances during the ongoing novel coronavirus crisis. However, a renationalization of the carmaker is not being considered, Senard told Le Parisien. The French government nationalized Renault after World War…

Breaking down the new instructions, how they will be enforced and how long they could last. Boris Johnson has unveiled the biggest crackdown on the freedom of people living in Britain to go about their business since the end of the Second World War. In a plan signed off at…

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria is mobilizing its military reservists for the first time since World War Two, asking them to fight the coronavirus outbreak by helping with food supplies, medical support and police operations, the defense minister said. Austria, unlike Germany or France, still has compulsory military service. Men must…

OSS Against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America’s first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and the liberation of Paris.…

FILE PHOTO: National security adviser Robert O'Brien attends a briefing on the situation with Iran in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File PhotoMOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien will travel to Moscow to attend Russia’s World…

Angela Merkel told Germany it is facing its greatest challenge since the Second World War in the struggle against the coronavirus on Wednesday. In her first televised address to the nation in more than 14 years in power, Mrs Merkel asked Germans to stand together. “This is serious. And we…

By Steph Willems on March 16, 2020 In times of crisis, companies have been known to turn on a dime to produce whatever’s most needed at a given moment. Detroit automakers churned out all manner of jeeps, armoured cars, and tank killers during World War 2, with American office supplier…

By Paul SandleLONDON (Reuters) - Britain will isolate older people "within weeks" and force into quarantine anyone diagnosed with coronavirus, the government said as it stepped up measures that have so far been less stringent than elsewhere in Europe.The British Heath Secretary Matt Hancock said people aged over 70 would…