Although Japanese leaders have visited Pearl Harbor before, Abe will be the first to visit the memorial that now rests on the hallowed waters above the sunken USS Arizona Putting 75 years of resentment behind them, the leaders of the United States and Japan are coming together at Pearl Harbor for a historic pilgrimage to the site where the bloodshed of the surprise attacks drew America into World War II. […]

LONDON: An unexploded 50kg World War II live bomb has been uncovered near UK’s national football stadium in London, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of people living nearby. Residents and traders have been evacuated from nearby buildings, and a 400m cordon has been erected in the area, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. A Britain’s Got Talent studio was also evacuated after the bomb was uncovered by builders near […]

WASHINGTON: In the decades after World War II, the CIA. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government’s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J Edgar Hoover at the […]

A 98-year-old top Nazi war crimes suspect, accused of overseeing thousands of Jewish deportations during World War II, has been charged with war crimes in Hungary, prosecutors said. Laszlo Csatary, who has been under house arrest since last year, is listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as its most-wanted alleged Nazi war criminal. The Nazi-hunting organisation says that Csatary was a senior Hungarian police officer in charge of the Kosice […]