Posts Tagged ‘World War II’

By Agence France-Presse Prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner Sumiteru Taniguchi, who was delivering mail in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945,…

by AP Higashishirakawa, Japan – Tatsuya Yasue buried his face into the flag and smelled it. Then he held the 93-year-old hands that brought this…

By Richard Javad Heydarian Note: This is the first of a series of essays. I rarely write on anything aside from politics, economics, and diplomacy.…

By Associated Press Seyran Ates' vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together — women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight and…

By Associated Press A portion of an underground tunnel containing rail cars filled with radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday at a sprawling storage facility in a…

By Associated Press Seventy-two years after the end of World War II, a construction crew has found the remains of at least 21 Soviet Red…