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AI Helps Identify Nazi Killer From Haunting Holocaust Image
The Nazi soldier who aimed a pistol at a kneeling man in a suit, surrounded by troops and a pit of bodies, has been identified as Jakobus Onnen.
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Declassified CIA File Claims Aliens Attacked Soviet Soldiers, Sparks Buzz
According to the report, Soviet troops in Ukraine spotted a "low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer" during a training exercise.
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Caught On Camera: Russian Ambassador Attacked With Red Paint At Victory Day Event In Poland
Russia's ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev was hit with red paint at an annual Victory Day event commemorating the end of World War II. Protesters attacked Mr Andreev in front of the Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery.
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Putin Uses The Soviet Defeat Of Hitler To Show Why Russia Needs Him Today
A takeout sushi place offered a Victory Day roll, covered in black and orange roe. Superstores stocked balloons, coffee mugs, T-shirts and flip flops, all decorated in orange and black.
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In Russia, PM Narendra Modi Lays Wreath At Soviet World War II Memorial
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a war memorial dedicated to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II.
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Russian Soldier Accused of Killing Armenian Family of 7 Goes on Trial
A Russian soldier accused of killing a family of seven in Armenia, including two children, went on trial for desertion today at a Russian army base in the former Soviet state.
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Last Major Soviet Statues Come Down in Lithuanian Capital
Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO.
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Angela Merkel Says 'Still No Ceasefire' in East Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said there was still no genuine ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as she paid a visit to Moscow to commemorate millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians who died in WWII.
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Angela Merkel Urges Cooperation After Missing Russian World War II Victory Parade
German Chancellor Angela Merkel today paid tribute to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II as she called for cooperation with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel to Pay Respects to World War II Martyrs
Vladimir Putin was due today to host German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will commemorate the memory of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II after she stayed away from Russia's military parade.
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Armenian Troops Kill Azerbaijani Soldier in Fresh Clashes: Officials
Armenian forces today killed an Azerbaijani soldier in the latest breach of a ceasefire between the arch-foes locked in a simmering conflict over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, officials in Baku said.
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Ukraine Plans $3 Billion Boost to Defence Spending
As armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Kiev in an ostentatious celebration of Ukraine's independence, pro-Russian rebels who are battling government forces in the east paraded captured soldiers down the besieged streets of Donetsk and displayed charred wreckages of destroyed Ukrainian tanks.
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Aged Japan Veterans Voice Concerns About Military Policy Shift
Tokuro Inokuma, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, got his first taste of the horrors of war in 1945 when he scrambled to gather up the scattered limbs of his fellow servicemen, blown apart by a US air raid in Japan. He was 16.
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Soviet soldier, missing for 33 years, found in Afghanistan
Sheikh Abdulla, an elderly-looking, impoverished widower working as a traditional healer in Afghanistan, has been found to be a Soviet soldier who went missing during a nine-year-long war that began when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
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Soviet soldier to be buried 30 years after Afghan war
The remains of a Soviet soldier who died in Afghanistan 30 years ago will be reburied in his home country, former Soviet republic Kazakhstan, following a ceremony in Moscow.
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AI Helps Identify Nazi Killer From Haunting Holocaust Image
The Nazi soldier who aimed a pistol at a kneeling man in a suit, surrounded by troops and a pit of bodies, has been identified as Jakobus Onnen.
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Declassified CIA File Claims Aliens Attacked Soviet Soldiers, Sparks Buzz
According to the report, Soviet troops in Ukraine spotted a "low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer" during a training exercise.
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Caught On Camera: Russian Ambassador Attacked With Red Paint At Victory Day Event In Poland
Russia's ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev was hit with red paint at an annual Victory Day event commemorating the end of World War II. Protesters attacked Mr Andreev in front of the Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery.
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Putin Uses The Soviet Defeat Of Hitler To Show Why Russia Needs Him Today
A takeout sushi place offered a Victory Day roll, covered in black and orange roe. Superstores stocked balloons, coffee mugs, T-shirts and flip flops, all decorated in orange and black.
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In Russia, PM Narendra Modi Lays Wreath At Soviet World War II Memorial
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a war memorial dedicated to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II.
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Russian Soldier Accused of Killing Armenian Family of 7 Goes on Trial
A Russian soldier accused of killing a family of seven in Armenia, including two children, went on trial for desertion today at a Russian army base in the former Soviet state.
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Last Major Soviet Statues Come Down in Lithuanian Capital
Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO.
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Angela Merkel Says 'Still No Ceasefire' in East Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said there was still no genuine ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as she paid a visit to Moscow to commemorate millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians who died in WWII.
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Angela Merkel Urges Cooperation After Missing Russian World War II Victory Parade
German Chancellor Angela Merkel today paid tribute to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II as she called for cooperation with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel to Pay Respects to World War II Martyrs
Vladimir Putin was due today to host German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will commemorate the memory of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II after she stayed away from Russia's military parade.
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Armenian Troops Kill Azerbaijani Soldier in Fresh Clashes: Officials
Armenian forces today killed an Azerbaijani soldier in the latest breach of a ceasefire between the arch-foes locked in a simmering conflict over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, officials in Baku said.
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Ukraine Plans $3 Billion Boost to Defence Spending
As armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Kiev in an ostentatious celebration of Ukraine's independence, pro-Russian rebels who are battling government forces in the east paraded captured soldiers down the besieged streets of Donetsk and displayed charred wreckages of destroyed Ukrainian tanks.
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Aged Japan Veterans Voice Concerns About Military Policy Shift
Tokuro Inokuma, a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, got his first taste of the horrors of war in 1945 when he scrambled to gather up the scattered limbs of his fellow servicemen, blown apart by a US air raid in Japan. He was 16.
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Soviet soldier, missing for 33 years, found in Afghanistan
Sheikh Abdulla, an elderly-looking, impoverished widower working as a traditional healer in Afghanistan, has been found to be a Soviet soldier who went missing during a nine-year-long war that began when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
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Soviet soldier to be buried 30 years after Afghan war
The remains of a Soviet soldier who died in Afghanistan 30 years ago will be reburied in his home country, former Soviet republic Kazakhstan, following a ceremony in Moscow.
