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US World War Two memorial vandalized with soap, graffiti, government vows to find perpetrator

The fountain bubbled over with suds and someone painted "Clean hands Dirty $" on one surface, splattering the area with red and green paint.

Members of the National Guard stand near the World War II Memorial, after the pool was reportedly vandalized with soap and graffiti, in Washington, DC, US, August 13, 2026.
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos.

Ethiopia, US reinforce commitment to partner on cross-sectional issues - opinion

AN AI-generated political cartoon depicting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at court with anti-Israel protesters in the background alongside the US Founding Fathers.

New York must heed the warning signs before we ask, 'How did this happen?' - opinion

Russia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in a ceremony to present Gold Star medals to service members, who were involved in the country's military campaign in Ukraine and awarded the title of Hero of Russia, in Moscow, Russia, December 17, 2025.

Putin embraces the dark corners of Russia’s history – opinion


‘Glamour Boys’: When an LGBT group of British MPs foresaw Hitler’s threat

At a time when gay sex was still illegal in Britain, their decision to break ranks with then prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Hitler in the 1930s was all the more courageous.

LGBT RIGHTS activists take part in a pride parade in Mexico City in 2009

The story of the Resistance Movement in Hungary

As we reflect 75 years after the end of World War II, we have much documentation about great resistance to the Nazis in many countries.

Hungarian Jews during the Second World War.

Australian chain criticized for 'WWII evacuee' children's costume

While the official Smiffys site markets the costume as "wwii evacuee girl," at least one major site which sold the costume overseas had marketed it as an "Anne Frank costume."

A "WWII evacuee girl" costume, made by Australian costume-maker Smiffys.

Did World War II bring humanity peace, or are we back at square 1?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: 75 years on, the tools of the worst violence in human history are largely obsolete, but the mindset that underpinned it is alive and well

RUSSIA’S PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Mamayev Kurgan World War II memorial complex in Volgograd dedicated to ‘To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad.’

How political rivalries led to victimizing WWII refugees who had suffered most

In The Last Million, David Nasaw reveals the fate of people, “living, moving, pallid wreckage” in 1945, who refused to go home or had no home to return to.

BRITAIN’S THEN-PRINCESS ELIZABETH joins US president Harry Truman in Washington in 1951. The book says the Truman administration supported displaced Jews going to Palestine, but limited immigration to the US.

Japan's Abe, on WW2 anniversary, vows not to repeat war

Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers a silent prayer for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, August 6, 2020, on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, August 6, 2020

Seth MacFarlane adapting Herman Wouk WWII novels for miniseries

The author, an observant Jew, also wrote “This Is My God,” a book summarizing the tenets of Judaism intended for both Jews and non-Jews.

Seth MacFarlane 370

Resistance fighter whose factory was used to make yellow stars dies at 98

The De Stentor newspaper reported Tuesday about van Gelderen’s death.

An SS officer questions two Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943

Unexploded Nazi mortar uncovered in ‘Warsaw Ghetto’ Jewish cemetery

The device was exposed during the cleaning of the First Quarter of the Okopowa Cemetery.

An Orthodox Jew walks through the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw April 15, 2013. The 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be commemorated on April 19, 2013. Picture taken April 15, 2013.

French town that saved Jews in WWII recently elected antisemtic mayor

He has been convicted of Holocaust denial or minimization by a French court and a German court for calling the gas chambers “a detail” of World War II.

Romain Lopez won the mayoral race in Moissac with 62% of the vote, easily breaking a string of left-wing mayors in the French town dating back to World War II.