Book shows Hitler’s Holocaust plans for Canada, US

Military marks veterans day at National world war II memorial.

Egyptian activists have created a video archive documenting events that took place during and after the country’s uprising in 2011. Hundreds of people contributed to the 858 hours of footage, which can now be accessed online.

Why National Assembly needs a museum, archive - Saraki

Moscow has accused Tokyo of attempting to "stir up the atmosphere" ahead of key talks. Russia and Japan never signed a peace treaty in the wake of World War II, and disputed islands may prevent them from doing so now.

Whirling masked spirits clad in raffia and laughing children daubed with clay dance across the pages of "African Twilight", the latest book by two photographers documenting rapidly vanishing rituals across the continent.

The economic impact of COVID-19 has hit the world economy like a freight train. The aftereffects may be felt for years. But comparisons with World War II should give as much cause for hope as despair.

Is the view of World War II and V-E Day skewered? That's what British historian James Holland thinks and calls for a realignment of the way we look at those events.

Meet the 95-year-old war veteran from Ghana who walked three kilometers every day to raise money for African health care workers on the frontline in the battle against the coronavirus

The Russian Embassy in Berlin has sent out an email to German historians featuring an article authored by Putin about WWII, suggesting they use it as source material. Some call it an infringement on academic freedom.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is sounding "alarm bells" over a record high temperature in Siberia. The record temperature was logged in June 2020 in the town of Verkhoyansk.

During World War II, one of the worst massacres of the conflict took place in Eastern Europe, in Romania's second city of Iași. A tenth of the city's population – more than 13,000 people – was murdered in the space of a few days, simply because they were Jews. More than 80 years after the Iasi pogrom, most people in Romania know little about these atrocities, and the country's far-right party is gaining in strength – as are those who want to rewrite history. FRANCE 24's Nadia Blétry, Thierry Trelluyer and Ruth Michaelson report.

Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma offered several Jewish people refuge from the Nazis in German-occupied Poland before being caught and killed. The Vatican now plans to beatify the pair before possible sainthood.