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Mandirigma: Not the usual history book

By Mike Villa-Real Some months back, we witnessed the launch of the coffee-table Book “Mandirigma—Uniforms and Equipment of The Filipino Warrior, 1935-1945.” Packed with high-resolution,...

Why the CPP-NPA insurgency persists

"Moving countryside Filipinos out of poverty is the only way to put an end to this."     A day in the latter part of December 1969...

Eiffel Tower to reopen after 9-month closure

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4G helps in online learning of Bataan Aetas

Bataan is historically known as one of the provinces last conquered by the Japanese during World War II. The infamous “Death March” that claimed...

New museum explores German wartime suffering

A new museum dedicated to the long-silenced trauma of German civilians forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II opens...

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who took part in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1945, has died at...

Japan births hit new record low

The number of babies born in Japan hit a new record low last year, official data showed, highlighting concern over the pandemic’s impact on...

Trudeau apologizes to Italian-Canadians for WWII treatment

Canada on Thursday formally apologized for interning more than 600 Italian-Canadians during World War II. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, addressing the House of Commons, also...

SK ends sex slaves’ case vs. Japan

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US warship found deep under PH Sea

A US navy destroyer sunk during World War II and lying nearly 6,500 meters below sea level off the Philippines has been reached in...

Moscow appeal court upholds Navalny sentence

Moscow­—A Moscow appeal court on Saturday upheld a prison sentence imposed on chief Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he returned to Russia from Germany...

Navalny goes on trial for slander

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny went on trial Friday on charges of defaming a World War II veteran, days after being handed a nearly three-year...

Sokor to Japan: Pay former sex slaves

Seoul—A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or their families, in...

German court hands verdict vs. anti-Semitic attack

A German court is to hand down its verdict Monday on a deadly far-right attack in Halle last year that nearly became the country’s...
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