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World Leaders Mark 80th Anniversary Of Start Of World War II In Poland
Leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday mark 80 years since the start of World War Two in Poland, with the conflict still a live political issue in the country.
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World War Two Veteran Breaks His Own Scuba Diving Record At 96
A 96-year-old celebrated his birthday on Saturday by breaking his own record as the world's oldest active scuba diver for the third year running, plunging to the depths of the equivalent of a 15-storey building to explore a shipwreck off Cyprus.
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She Found 'Unexploded' World War II Shell, Gets Charged At Vienna Airport
An American tourist brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport in her luggage, Austrian police said on Tuesday.
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Ex-Nazi Death Camp Guard, 96, Charged With Complicity
German prosecutors on Friday charged a 96-year-old former SS guard at a Nazi death camp with complicity in the murder of detainees, in one of the last criminal cases linked to the Holocaust
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Japan Plans To Send Largest Warship To South China Sea: Report
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two.
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Japan Lawmakers' Group Visits Yasukuni Shrine For War Dead
Dozens of Japanese members of parliament visited Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday to mark an autumn festival at the shrine, seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
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Vintage Plane Crashed In Hudson River During Emergency Landing
The pilot of a World War Two-era plane killed in a crash in the Hudson River off Manhattan on Friday evening was trying to execute an emergency landing, the museum that owned the vintage aircraft said.
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Thousands In Japan Rally Against US Base On Okinawa
Thousands of people surrounded Japan's parliament on Sunday to protest against government plans to relocate a US military base on Okinawa island, local media reported.
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Japan's Far-Flung Island Defence Plan Seeks To Turn Tables On China
Japan is fortifying its far-flung island chain in the East China Sea under an evolving strategy that aims to turn the tables on China's navy and keep it from ever dominating the Western Pacific Ocean, Japanese military and government sources said.
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US 'Shocked' At Hungarian Plans To Honour World War Two Anti-Semite
A US envoy said on Sunday Washington was shocked by plans to erect a statue of Balint Homan, who contributed to murderous anti-Semitism in Hungary in the 1930s and 40s.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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8 Migrants Drown After Boat Sinks off Greek Island: Coastguard
Eight migrants drowned and at least another three were missing after their inflatable boat sank off the Greek island of Kos early on Tuesday, the coastguard said.
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Japan's Government Sues Okinawa Governor in Feud Over US Base
Japan's central government filed a law suit on Tuesday against Okinawa's governor, demanding he reinstate a key work permit to relocate a contentious US air base, escalating a feud that could prove politically damaging for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Japanese Protesters Dragged Away as Work Resumes at US Airbase
Police dragged away elderly protesters trying to block work on a contentious US airbase in Okinawa today as Japan's government resumed building even though the Okinawa governor had revoked a work permit for the site.
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Should Remember Good The Things Japan Did, Says Taiwan President
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said today it was important to remember the good things Japan did for the island while not forgetting the bad, as he marked 70 years since Japan gave up control of Taiwan at the end of World War Two.
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World Leaders Mark 80th Anniversary Of Start Of World War II In Poland
Leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday mark 80 years since the start of World War Two in Poland, with the conflict still a live political issue in the country.
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World War Two Veteran Breaks His Own Scuba Diving Record At 96
A 96-year-old celebrated his birthday on Saturday by breaking his own record as the world's oldest active scuba diver for the third year running, plunging to the depths of the equivalent of a 15-storey building to explore a shipwreck off Cyprus.
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She Found 'Unexploded' World War II Shell, Gets Charged At Vienna Airport
An American tourist brought an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport in her luggage, Austrian police said on Tuesday.
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Ex-Nazi Death Camp Guard, 96, Charged With Complicity
German prosecutors on Friday charged a 96-year-old former SS guard at a Nazi death camp with complicity in the murder of detainees, in one of the last criminal cases linked to the Holocaust
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Japan Plans To Send Largest Warship To South China Sea: Report
Japan plans to dispatch its largest warship on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May, three sources said, in its biggest show of naval force in the region since World War Two.
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Japan Lawmakers' Group Visits Yasukuni Shrine For War Dead
Dozens of Japanese members of parliament visited Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday to mark an autumn festival at the shrine, seen in China and the two Koreas as a symbol of Japan's past militarism.
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Vintage Plane Crashed In Hudson River During Emergency Landing
The pilot of a World War Two-era plane killed in a crash in the Hudson River off Manhattan on Friday evening was trying to execute an emergency landing, the museum that owned the vintage aircraft said.
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Thousands In Japan Rally Against US Base On Okinawa
Thousands of people surrounded Japan's parliament on Sunday to protest against government plans to relocate a US military base on Okinawa island, local media reported.
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Japan's Far-Flung Island Defence Plan Seeks To Turn Tables On China
Japan is fortifying its far-flung island chain in the East China Sea under an evolving strategy that aims to turn the tables on China's navy and keep it from ever dominating the Western Pacific Ocean, Japanese military and government sources said.
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US 'Shocked' At Hungarian Plans To Honour World War Two Anti-Semite
A US envoy said on Sunday Washington was shocked by plans to erect a statue of Balint Homan, who contributed to murderous anti-Semitism in Hungary in the 1930s and 40s.
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Japan's Tiny Refugee Community Urges Tokyo to Open Doors Wider
Hitoshi Kino, a bespectacled clerical employee at a university near Tokyo, doesn't stand out. Only a slight Vietnamese accent betrays his past, as he speaks in Japanese about being stranded on a rickety boat in waters off his war-torn homeland in 1980, starving with 32 others and left by pirates with nothing but his underpants.
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8 Migrants Drown After Boat Sinks off Greek Island: Coastguard
Eight migrants drowned and at least another three were missing after their inflatable boat sank off the Greek island of Kos early on Tuesday, the coastguard said.
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Japan's Government Sues Okinawa Governor in Feud Over US Base
Japan's central government filed a law suit on Tuesday against Okinawa's governor, demanding he reinstate a key work permit to relocate a contentious US air base, escalating a feud that could prove politically damaging for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Japanese Protesters Dragged Away as Work Resumes at US Airbase
Police dragged away elderly protesters trying to block work on a contentious US airbase in Okinawa today as Japan's government resumed building even though the Okinawa governor had revoked a work permit for the site.
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Should Remember Good The Things Japan Did, Says Taiwan President
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said today it was important to remember the good things Japan did for the island while not forgetting the bad, as he marked 70 years since Japan gave up control of Taiwan at the end of World War Two.
