The leaders of the United States and Germany each announced Wednesday they will send contingents of tanks to Ukraine, reversing their longstanding trepidation at providing Kyiv with offensive armored vehicles and unleashing powerful new tools in Ukraine’s efforts to retake territory seized by Russia.
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The blasts at the Nord Stream pipeline in September were caused by an act of sabotage, Swedish prosecutors said Friday after evidence of explosives was discovered at the sites by investigators.
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The last US military planes have left Afghanistan, marking the end of the United States’ longest war
(CNN) — The last US military planes have left Afghanistan, Commander of US Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie announced Monday at the Pentagon. The US departure marks the end of a fraught, chaotic and bloody exit from the United States’ longest war. “I’m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the end of […]
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(CNN) — The United States has won international backing for its plan to overhaul the global system for taxing companies, a huge step toward simplifying a complex web of rules long exploited by big corporations. Countries including India, China and Switzerland have agreed to a broad framework for reform set out by the Organization for Economic […]
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(CNN) — A message lost by a carrier pigeon has been found some 110 years after it was sent. Found in a field in mid-September by a couple out hiking in Ingersheim, northeastern France, the message was sent from one German military officer to another in 1910, when the area was still part of Germany, according to Dominique Jardy, curator […]
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Sarah Megan Thomas produced, wrote, and starred in “A Call to Spy” as Virginia Hall, a real-life female spy during World War II and eventually ended up working for a then-new spy organization called the CIA. From IFC Films, “A Call to Spy” is an intriguing look at a real-life hero, my real-life Wonder Woman […]
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(CNN) — A US immigration judge has ordered a Tennessee resident, who served as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, be deported to Germany. Judge Rebecca L. Holt determined after a two-day trial that Friedrich Karl Berger’s “willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp […]
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With silent remembrance and respect, nations honored the fallen and the singular bravery of all Allied troops who sloshed through bloodied water to the beaches of Normandy 75 years ago on D-Day, the assault that portended the fall of Hitler’s Third Reich. French President Emmanuel Macron and President Donald Trump praised the soldiers, sailors and […]
