World War II

Ukraine’s top officials return Polish honours after rift deepens

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had sent the Order back to Poland.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, June 20, 2026

US President Donald Trump's trip to Camp David this week will make it his second visit since retaking office in 2025.

Poland strips Ukraine’s Zelensky of top honour as WWII dispute sours ties

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish President Karol Nawrocki (left) at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec 19, 2025. The Ukrainian president caused outrage by renaming an army unit after a paramilitary group which massacred Poles in World War Two.

US’ Hegseth urges Europe on D-Day to counter present-day migrant ‘invasion’

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth (centre) arriving to attend a ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, northwestern France, on June 6.

Nazi party records released online shatter German family myths

German lecturer Felix Puelm looks at copies of National Socialist German Workers’ party membership cards of several members of his family, at Silpakorn University in Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, on June 2.

Suspected World War II ordnance explodes in Indonesia, five dead

For 80 years, Japan has tied its own hands. Will it now get a ‘normal’ military?

Members of the the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force on May 21. Officials remain quietly confident that Japan can still be a formidable force by strengthening security partnerships.

Archaeological study to be carried out at Adam Park, a WWII battlefield and prisoner-of-war camp

Facade of 7 Adam Park on April 28, 2026.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, May 13, 2026

US President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One, bound for China, on May 12.

Noted Auschwitz concentration camp survivor dies at 101

Mr Weinberg and his two siblings were sent to Auschwitz in what was Nazi-occupied Poland when he was 18.

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