5+ hour, 34+ min ago  (975+ words) Japan fired Type-88 missiles during military exercises in the Philippines Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has accelerated Japan's shift towards a more muscular defence policy, further casting off -- with US encouragement -- Tokyo's pacifist stance in place since the end of World…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (876+ words) Smoke after the bomb was detonated. (William Dax via SWNS) An unexploded WWII bomb that led to the evacuation of more than 1, 200 homes has been detonated. The device saw a 400-meter cordon set up after it was found on a…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (357+ words) Students at Vestal Middle School participated in an assembly presented by Dillon Horowitz, a third-generation descendant of a Holocaust survivor. Horowitz shared the story of his grandmother, Chana, who was sent to Auschwitz at the age of 14, and how she…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago  (1386+ words) Danny Jones found parts of the fallen WWII Spitfire with his metal detector. (Tony Kershaw via SWNS) A metal detectorist is trying to find the family of a WWII pilot after finding 1, 500 pieces of his downed Spitfire in woodlands. Danny…...

11+ mon, 19+ hour ago  (269+ words) More than 150, 000 allied troops stormed the shores on this date in 1944, with over 10, 000 casualties. During the four years the United States was involved in World War II over 18, 000 men and women from Broome County served." Past commander of the American…...