Japan parliament passes controversial anti-terror bill
Japan's lower house of parliament passed a controversial bill to crack down on people planning crime.
May 23, 2017, 15:30 PM IST
Japan`s Shinzo Abe to visit Russia for Putin meet
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia this week for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin and Tokyo said Tuesday, as the two sides look to make headway on a decades-old territorial dispute.
Apr 25, 2017, 17:04 PM IST
Australia, Indonesia making joint effort to protect WW2 wreck
Australia and Indonesia are sending divers to inspect the wreck of a warship torpedoed off the coast of Java during World War Two next month to determine how best to protect the site from looters who have stripped numerous other WW2 wrecks.
Feb 14, 2017, 13:57 PM IST
Greece evacuates 75,000 people to defuse WWII bomb
A massive evacuation has begun in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki so experts can defuse a 500-pound unexploded World War II bomb.
Feb 12, 2017, 15:02 PM IST
70,000 evacuated in Greece to defuse WWII bomb
The bomb, containing nearly 250 kilograms (550 pounds) of explosives, was unearthed in the northern city during road works last week.
Feb 11, 2017, 18:16 PM IST
Japan PM Shinzo Abe urges South Korea to remove 'comfort woman' statue
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called on South Korea to remove a statue of a "comfort woman" which has reignited a diplomatic row over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery.
Jan 08, 2017, 15:42 PM IST
Japan, Russia wrap up peace treaty summit
Japan and Russia today wrap up a summit aimed at making progress on a peace treaty to formally end World War II, focusing on economic projects in small Russian-occupied islands claimed by Tokyo.
Dec 16, 2016, 11:15 AM IST
Pearl Harbor survivor, greeter at memorial dies at age 99
An Army veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the US into World War II has died at age 99.
Dec 14, 2016, 07:49 AM IST
'Save us' as you did in World War II: Fiji to US on climate
Fiji urged the United States on Friday to "save" the world from climate change as it had helped to win World War II.
Nov 19, 2016, 00:38 AM IST
Ukraine marks 75 years since Babi Yar mass slaughter of Jews
A sombre Ukraine on Thursday marks 75 years since the World War II slaughter of some 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev, one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust. The carnage by Nazi forces at the Babi Yar ravine has caused years of soul-searching and debate in Ukraine over the participation of local collaborators in the killings and atrocities that followed.
Sep 29, 2016, 09:35 AM IST
World War II bombs found in Nagaland
The bombs were found from an ongoing construction site by the labourers after which the police were informed.
Sep 24, 2016, 20:50 PM IST
UN holds first-ever summit on refugees and migrants
The issue of what to do about the world's 65.3 million displaced people takes center stage at the United Nations General Assembly Monday when leaders from around the globe converge on New York for the first-ever summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.
Sep 19, 2016, 02:59 AM IST
Nurse kissed in iconic World War II photo dies
Greta Friedman, the woman kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in New York city's Times Square after the Second World War ended in 1945, has died, a media report said.
Sep 11, 2016, 09:02 AM IST
Japan PM sends ritual offering to Yasukuni shrine for war dead
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to a shrine for war dead on Monday, the anniversary of Japan`s World War Two defeat, but did not visit the shrine, which is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Tokyo`s wartime militarism.
Aug 15, 2016, 11:11 AM IST
British prime ministers since World War II
Theresa May is Britain`s 14th prime minister since World War II
Jul 14, 2016, 08:55 AM IST
Teacher who sat for anthem deserved pay cut: Japan Court
A school was right to cut the pay of a teacher who refused to stand for the national anthem, a Japanese court has ruled.
Jul 07, 2016, 14:13 PM IST
Britain and the EU: an awkward marriage of convenience
Britain has never really internalised the European project because of its very different history during the 20th century.
Jun 21, 2016, 08:45 AM IST
Italy outlaws Holocaust denial, incitement to racial hatred
Denying the World War II Nazi Holocaust is now a crime in Italy punishable with between two and six years in jail after the Parliament outlawed incitement to racial hatred.
Jun 09, 2016, 22:45 PM IST
Hitler's coding machine meets its nemesis
Hitler's Lorenz machine boasted 1.6 million billion possible coding combinations thanks to a series of twelve rotors, a million times more complex than the more feted Enigma machine.
Jun 04, 2016, 05:46 AM IST
Drowned migrant baby photo wake-up call for EU: NGO
The photo shows the baby, its eyes closed with blue-tinged lips, in the arms of a rescuer.
May 31, 2016, 11:39 AM IST
