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Kent: World War Two veterans fly in Spitfires for 100th birthdays

BBC News 13 Sep 2024
A charity set up the flights to celebrate Robbie Hall and Dorothea Barron .
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Fears are mounting of military call-up. Could conscription really return to the UK?

Metro UK 13 Sep 2024
In World War Two, single women aged 20 to 30 years old who did not have young children were called up to help on the home front as mechanics, engineers, air raid wardens, bus drivers, farmers, and more.
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Is Vladimir Putin bluffing?

New Statesman 13 Sep 2024
It is the first time since the Second World War that Russia has been invaded by a foreign army, something that would have been unimaginable at the start of this war ... on the threshold of World War III.
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Shoigu Meets With Kim Jong Un in North Korea

Moscow Times 13 Sep 2024
The two countries have been allies since North Korea's founding after World War II and have drawn even closer since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 isolated Putin on the global stage.
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Inside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

The Daily Mail 13 Sep 2024
and UK have a special relationship going back to World War II ... When Biden and Starmer sit down for their two-hour meeting, the war in the Ukraine will top the agenda ... It's also uncertain how the former president would handle the war in the Middle East.
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Basel - the city of Swiss centenarians

Swissinfo 13 Sep 2024
A portrait of 101-year-old Edith Hug ... One of them is a black-and-white picture of two small girls in dresses ... The picture was taken in 1929 just ten years before World War Two erupted ... .
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Flying Tiger Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington: The Top US Marine Ace In History

Simple Flying 13 Sep 2024
... pilots were elite and legendary aerial warriors of the Second World War, they were two separate entities.
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Second World War veterans celebrate their 100th birthdays with Spitfire flights

Irish Independent 13 Sep 2024
Two Second World War veterans took to the skies in Spitfire aircraft to celebrate their 100th birthdays. .
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Good tidings from Beijing

The Manila Times 13 Sep 2024
Doubtlessly, therefore, the coming together in the Xiangshang Forum of the two powers contending for world hegemony clearly illustrates that war is not the be-all of world conflicts ... A war cry was ...
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Review: An Inspector Calls, Alexandra Palace Theatre

Islington Tribune 13 Sep 2024
Thirty-two ... Written in 1945, Daldry brilliantly blends the two periods, highlighting the timelessness of Priestley’s concerns as well as hinting at the social changes that would follow two world wars.
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Today’s GOP has become a RINO

The Vindicator 13 Sep 2024
In the wake of Dick Cheney announcing his support of Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, in typical fashion, flung two pejoratives at Cheney ... ConsiderAmerica First,” a phrase used by isolationists between the two World Wars.
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Biden poised to approve Ukraine’s use of long-range Western weapons in Russia

The Spokesman-Review 13 Sep 2024
Over nearly 31 months of war, the pattern has been clear ... With the Kursk incursion, Umerov argued, Ukraine has demonstrated it can invade, and even occupy, Russian territory without igniting World War III, according to two officials.
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Prima Facie’ leads busy weekend, ‘Lee’, ‘Speak No Evil’, ‘The Critic’ also launch

Screen Daily 13 Sep 2024
Kate Winslet stars in, and produces, this biopic about Lee Miller, a former fashion model who broke gender barriers to become an acclaimed war correspondent during World War Two ... Trafalgar Releasing has two event releases this weekend.
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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Lee’, ‘Speak No Evil’, ‘The Critic’, ‘Prima Facie’ lead busy weekend

Screen Daily 13 Sep 2024
Kate Winslet stars in, and produces, this biopic about Lee Miller, a former fashion model who broke gender barriers to become an acclaimed war correspondent during World War Two ... Trafalgar Releasing has two event releases this weekend.

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