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Barquez, 99

Army M/Sgt. Salvador S. Barquez (ret.), former adjutant-post commandant of the Veterans Federation of the Philippines and survivor of the Death March in World War...

Coronavirus worst crisis since WWII, UN boss says as deaths go over 40k

Washington "• The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to worsen Wednesday despite unprecedented lockdowns, as the head of the United Nations sounded...

Kim Jong Un eschews masks

As he watches his troops firing rockets and artillery shells, one of the many things that marks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un out...

Archives on Pius XII unsealed by Vatican

Vatican City"•The Vatican unseals the archives of history’s most contentious popes on Monday, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the...

Tit for tat: PH reminds US of WW2

Malacañang on Saturday reminded Washington that the Philippines has been fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with America since World War II following Manila's decision to terminate the...

5 mysteries in Philippine history

History is the record of past events. But some events written in documents remain a mystery yet to be solved or confirmed. Here are...

What hatred can do

More than 200 survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp gathered to commemorate its 75th anniversary of its liberation earlier this week. The survivors, now mostly...

How the world discovered the Nazi death camps

Paris"•The images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the...

Minister announces paternity leave

Tokyo"•Japan’s environment minister said Wednesday he would take two weeks of paternity leave, the first time a cabinet minister has publicly committed to such...

Our growing population

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Putin condemned for WWII ‘lies’

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We were never brothers

"Where were Durbin and Leahy when former President Arroyo’s rights were being violated?"   We may have fought side by side with them during World War II,...

Russia releases Japan fishing boats

Tokyo"•Russia released 24 Japanese fishermen and their vessels on Tuesday, after detaining them for allegedly exceeding the octopus catch quota off a chain of...

The heroes of Bastogne: 75 years on

By Matthieu Demeestere The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of...
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