China tensions rising, US revives WWII-era Pacific airfield
In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest —…
Soviet role in WWII
Rising coronavirus infections forced Russia on May 9, 2020 to curtail its celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. Russia usually holds grand military parades to…
Poland feeling its WWII wounds seeks German reparations 80 years on
Eighty years after the first Nazi bombs fell on Poland, echoes of the blasts can be heard in the bickering between Warsaw and Berlin over the possibility of billions of…
Who won WWII? Russia’s role gets short shrift in France
When world leaders gather for D-Day commemorations, Vladimir Putin's absence will be a sign of how Russia's huge sacrifices in World War II have gone missing in most French minds.…
Poland unearths one of WWII’s darkest secrets
Anastasia carefully digs through the earth with her trowel. Bit by bit, a human skeleton emerges, piled on top of more bones. She removes them with care, slipping them gently…
WWII reparations – Greece’s other dispute with Germany
As Berlin and Athens lock horns over debt relief, Greece's claim that Germany has never compensated it for all the damage wrought by the Nazis during World War II is…
Clearing WWII’s explosive legacy in the Pacific
The rusting hulks of tanks and field artillery are a common sight in the jungles of Peleliu, but the fighting that scarred the Pacific island in WWII also left a…
Seven decades on, Japan looks for WWII remains
Tears roll down Heitaro Matsumoto's face as the 72-year-old businessman talks of an uncle who died on Guam as a Japanese soldier in the hopeless final weeks of World War…
Defeating fascism
Pakistan’s politics remains a vicious circle degrading with each rotation. The 2014 horror movie was re-run this week. Fascist hordes descended once again upon D-Chowk in a paralysed Islamabad amidst…
Backstage of a fratricidal war
THE first anniversary of the intra-Slavic war in Ukraine — of family members murdering each other to the applause of an imperial Coliseum — is as sombre an occasion as…
