European business, consumer confidence up again

Business and consumer confidence in the 16-nation euro zone increased again in August, official data showed Friday, suggesting the region is slowly recovering from one of the worst economic downturns in decades.

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Two mass graves containing scores of people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War have been found underneath an army football pitch in Austria, government officials said on Friday.

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MOSCOW-A Red Army soldier who appears in a historic photograph helping hoist a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 has died, officials said. He was 93.

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T S Eliot was not joking when he said "the Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it." President Obama got this ticket too soon in his presidency.

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A very strange thing must have happened to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US JointAdmiral Mike Mullen Chiefs of Staff (JCS), on his way to his recent talk at Washington's National Press Club.

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Case for escalating the war is based on premises that turn to dust on inspection

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A feel good news story... Meets siblings at Pearson after seeking Star's help in finding war vet father Oct 04, 2009 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener

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...a large number of readers believe that journalists who insist on depicting the "horrors of war" are, in fact, advocating a pacifist political agenda — with one eye on a Pulitzer. More Articles

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The dementia affecting hundreds of thousands of Britons may be a legacy of the Second World War, a scientist has claimed. Research presented at a conference in York yesterday suggested that traumatic stress can trigger Alzheimer's and other conditions.

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Vladimir Putin is due in Poland on Tuesday to stand with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Polish leaders to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the second world war. But this show of unity belies deep divisions about the war, its causes and its consequences.

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European and American officials plan to mark Tuesday's 70th anniversary of World War II with a ceremony bringing former friends and foes together on the Baltic peninsula where the conflict began.

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Russia's prime minister, Vladimir V.

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FORCES sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn has made a record-breaking re-entry into the charts 70 years after her Second World War heyday. Dame Vera, 92, yesterday became the oldest living artist ever to appear in the top 20 album chart.

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SANNIQUELLIE, Liberia: The chain of events prompted by that terrible day in September 2001 has begun to blur, and the electorates in the US and Britain are eager to end their countries' involvement in wars that ensued.

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Japan today emerged from its longest and most destructive recession since the Second World War as government stimulus measures at home and abroad finally began to pay off.

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The two wallet-size photos sat in a box in Fiorenzo Lopardo's bedroom dresser, reminders of a promise not yet kept. Decade after decade he held on to them, through law school, through raising a family, through 16 years as a Superior Court judge in Vista.

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British historian Andrew Roberts has claimed in a new book -- The Storm of War -- that wrong clothing and not ghastly wintry conditions led to Germany's defeat in Russia in 1941.

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IT was a remarkable wedding that stirred memories of wartime Britain and proved that falling in love can happen at any age.

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A signal literary event of 2009 has occurred, but if publishers had been more vigilant, it could have been a signal literary event in any of the last 60 years.

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In the Ukrainian town of Berdichev, Jewish women were forced to swim across a wide river until they drowned. In Telsiai, Lithuania, children were thrown alive into pits filled with their murdered parents.

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Book Review #9: Visions Of Victory

I read this book by Gerhard Weinberg not too long ago and I have to admit that this was an intresting read about the hopes of the leaders of every major participating nation in the Second World War(U.S., Britain, Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, Italy, China, and France) and how the …

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A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was deported from the United States on Thursday is now a free man because he cannot be prosecuted in Austria, the Austrian justice ministry said on Friday.

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(March 9) - In what's turned out to be a fascinating discovery, an amateur historian has unearthed footage of American and British troops practicing for D-Day.

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On Dec. 22, two German officers approached the American lines in Bastogne carrying a demand that the American commander surrender his troops within two hours or face annihilation from an artillery barrage.

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Bletchley Park – the code breaking centre made famous for its role in cracking the Enigma code during the second world war – looks set to be saved from extinction after a £330,000 grant from English Heritage.

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Col. Robert B. Nett, who received the Medal of Honor for heroism in combat in the Philippines during World War II and later served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, died Sunday. He was 86.

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