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Carrots Can’t Help You See in the Dark. Here’s How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth
The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...
Germany is permanently stationing troops in another country for the first time since World War II
Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...
EBRD to provide 1 billion euros to Ukraine's war-ravaged energy sector in 2025
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development plans to provide about 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) this year to help ...
80 years after World War II, Okinawa’s battle sites are still giving up bones and bombs
An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...
‘Worst ever’: War in Gaza deadliest for journalists, surpassing world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan tolls, study reveals
Journalists, and journalism, are increasingly a casualty of war,” said Stephanie Savell, director of the Costs of War project ...
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Remains of American Soldier Captured by the Japanese During World War II Identified Nearly 80 Years Later
After his plane was shot down, Glenn H. Hodak was sent to a military prison in Tokyo, where he was killed by U.S. firebombing ...
The world’s youngest country fought for decades to govern itself. Now it’s on the cusp of another civil war
A peace deal ending a conflict that killed tens of thousands in South Sudan is in danger of collapsing, raising fears that ...
Airman who was shot down, imprisoned in Japan during World War II accounted for
A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...
Family remembers Cobb woman as one of the members of the Six Triple Eight unit during World War II
The Six Triple Eight spent months sorting the massive backlog of mail that had been stacked in a warehouse in extremely poor ...
Oil approaches one-month highs as investors assess supply, trade war risks
Oil prices edged higher on Thursday as traders assessed a tightening of crude supplies along with new U.S. tariffs and their ...
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First World War German howitzer found buried at the PNE
The most prominent local First World War trophy gun was a large howitzer that was installed at the Georgia Street entrance to ...
Trump's tariff war could cost world $1.4 trillion, raise prices in US by 5%, finds analysis
US President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs could cost the world $1.4 trillion in lost economic opportunities and raise ...