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Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows part of a damaged taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Oct. 2, 2024. The airport's runway was closed earlier in the day after an explosion was reported, resulting in the suspension of all Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways flights.

Japan airport shut after likely WW2-era bomb explodes near runway, 87 flights cancelled

A Palestinian police man walks between the graves of thousands of allied soldiers who died in the bloody Battle of Gaza during World War One at the Commonwealth War Gaza Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 fallen soldiers came from Britain, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indie

Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas plan revealed: Dig up WWI, WWII graves and blackmail Britain

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DR. STEWART SADOWSKY and Dr. Samantha Baskind lower the casket of First Lt. Nathan Baskind into the grave, overseen by Normandy American Cemetery superintendent Scott Desjardins.

Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on

By ROOKIE , HESHIE BILLET

UKRAINIAN WAR prisoner, guarded by serviceman of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic army, awaits the next round of prisoner exchange, in Alexandrovka village

'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present

By PAUL GOLDBERG

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave to receive a proper burial

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

Postcards looted from Jews by German soldier returned by granddaughter 80 years later

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA

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Israel is being held to a double standard which punishes the victim - opinion

By MARVIN HIER

A Russian totenkopf flag seen in 2014. The flag consists of a Totenkopf skull symbol used as SS emblem in Nazi Germany and the black-yellow-white first "State flag" of the Russian Empire (1858–1896) used by some Russian ultra-nationalists.

Nazi flag hung at Rangers match sparks outrage

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 24, 2018.

Israel urges Canada to address WW2 Nazi immigration policy towards Jews

FASCIST SALUTE: ‘Il Duce’ Benito Mussolini with Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Eighty years on, Italian victims of Nazi crimes finally to get compensation

By REUTERS

German troops advancing past American equipment during the Battle of the Bulge.

Drone-mounted tech reveals unexplored World War II battlefield

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People waving Nazi swastika flags argue with conservatives during a protest outside the Tampa Convention Center, where Turning Point USA's (TPUSA) Student Action Summit (SAS) is being held, in Tampa, Florida, US July 23, 2022

'I don't believe in Germans:' Satirical news report mocks Holocaust deniers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People rest in a shelter during evacuation before the detonation of a World War II bomb that was found on the factory site of German industrial giant Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, March 1, 2023.

Tiny Pacific island Nauru declares disaster ahead of WW2 bomb operation

By REUTERS

The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Triumph (16) underway off Subic Bay, Philippines, during exercises, 8 March 1950.

British WWII submarine discovered in Aegean Sea at 203m deep

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The SS Montevideo Maru.

Researchers find lost WWII sunken ship that killed 1,000 Allied POWs

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The building before the renovation of the museum in Albania.

Albanian gov't announces museum celebrating Albanians who rescued Jews in WWII

Illustrative photo of two elderly people staring at a beach.

Bringing peace of mind to the elderly with an aguna at 100 - opinion

By RACHEL LEVMORE