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Four injured after old WWII aircraft bomb explodes in Munich

BERLIN: Four people were injured when an old aircraft bomb exploded at a bridge near Munich's busy main train station on Wednesday, police said...

Family finds out they had a picnic next to a live WWII bomb

David and Karen Hibbert were enjoying a picnic at Thoresby Park in Newark, with their children when the husband came across a strange-looking object next to the river.

Sisters separated during WWII reunited after 78 years

In footage of their meeting late last month provided by the interior ministry, Yulia and Rozalina Kharitonova, now 92 and 94, hugged and kissed as their family members watched in tears

Moscow and Warsaw feud over who was to blame for WWII

Poland and Russia have again clashed over who was to blame for unleashing World War II.

Risk of nuclear war now highest since WWII, says UN expert

Arms control landscape is changing, partly due to strategic competition between China and the US

Animated film to spotlight bear that served in WWII

WARSAW, Poland: During World War II, Wojciech Narebski and his fellow Polish servicemen had to lift crate after heavy metal crate of artillery. Fortunately...

French fishing trawler nets WWII bomb

RENNES, France: A French fishing trawler netted a World War II bomb containing nearly a tonne of explosives off the coast of Normandy on...

Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 people to defuse British WWII bomb

FRANKFURT: Around 60,000 inhabitants of Germany's financial capital Frankfurt will be ordered to leave their homes on Sunday while a large World War Two...

Hiroshima hopes Obama visit will revitalise anti-nuclear push

TOKYO: Barack Obama's trip to Hiroshima this month is a chance for him to see how the city suffered after its atomic bombing, and to renew his push for global nuclear disarmament, local officials said Wednesday.

Russia stages huge military parade, Western leaders boycott

MOSCOW: Thousands of Russian troops marched across Red Square, tanks rumbled through the streets and jets screamed overhead on Saturday in a huge military parade marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.

German couple pays Greece 875 euros in WWII 'damages'

ATHENS: A German couple visiting Greece were hailed as heroes by the local press Wednesday after paying 875 euros ($945) to a town hall in what they said were World War II reparations.

British WWII veteran who 'escaped' for D-Day events dies

LONDON: A British World War II veteran who secretly slipped out of his care home to join the D-Day commemorations in northern France last year has died aged 90, the home said Tuesday.

Ukraine economy shrank 7.5pc in 'worst year since WWII'

KIEV: Ukraine's central bank chief said on Tuesday that the strife-torn country's economy contracted by 7.5 percent in 2014 while inflation soared in a year more painful than any since World War II.
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