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TopicWorld War II

Topic: World War II

Japan’s 1st aircraft carrier since WWII, EU’s migration reforms & other global news you may have missed

ThePrint’s round-up of world news and topical issues over the last week. 

US ambassador to inaugurate ‘Hump WWII’ museum in Arunachal showing unique aircraft remnants

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti will inaugurate the museum at Pasighat Wednesday. The route was known as 'The Hump' because of the altitude of the Eastern Himalayas.

Waffen-SS Galicia Division & its Canada connection — centre of Trudeau’s Nazi woes

Canada allowed Ukrainians who served in Waffen SS unit to immigrate in 1950. Last week, then Speaker Anthony Rota, who has since resigned, introduced one such person as a 'hero'.

‘Single handedly captured post for Allied powers in WW2′ — Italy honours Naik Yeshwant Ghadge

Sundial memorial unveiled in Perugia honours Indian Army soldiers who fought for Allied powers during Italian Campaign in WW2. Naik Ghadge was 22 at the time.

Modi’s visit to Heliopolis shows India is no longer ashamed of its British Army soldiers

PM Modi's visit to Heliopolis is in keeping with his outreach to Muslims, including Bohras and Ahmadiyyas. Nobel Laureate Obama, leave India alone.

Wrangler Rubicon is a worthy Jeep but it’s too expensive for city roads

The Wrangler Rubicon is a worthy bearer of the Jeep name. An adventure junkie would jump to buy it. However, such driving experiences do not come for cheap.

Where are Nazi Germany’s uranium cubes? New tracking method could reveal its missing trail

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory develop forensic tracking techniques to locate parts of atom bomb & nuclear reactor Nazi scientists worked on during WW2.

‘Turbaned strangers’ — British questioned, sorted and colour-coded Indian POWs after Dunkirk

In ‘The Indian Contingent’, Ghee Bowman writes about the 9,711 Indian soldiers —including from Bose’s INA — recovered after the world war and sent back to India.

The glorious battle Indian soldiers fought in Italy, on a terrain as tough as the Himalayas

Indian troops are held in very high regard in Italy. I heard it first hand at Monte Cassino itself while talking to old timers in 1975.

US shielded Japanese war criminals after WW2 for biowarfare data — China cites Russian report

The report by the Chinese state-owned Xinhua news agency comes amid a renewed debate on Covid origins & strained Japan-China ties.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.