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Greece

Debt history capsized Greece

Greece reached today’s impasse by coming clean about a secret, to begin with. Soon after he was elected to lead the country in autumn 2009, the prime

17/06/2015

Culture news

Waterloo fan finishes model replica after forty years

A Belgian Battle of Waterloo enthusiast has completed a model of the momentous day in 1815 he started four decades ago.

17/06/2015

World News

Waterloo - How the world would be different if Napoleon had won

Leading up to the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, euronews asks, "What if Napoleon had won and defeated the combined Anglo and Prussian armies?"

17/06/2015

World News

Napoleon, one of the founding fathers of Europe?

Waterloo and the Napoleonic era are major markers of European history. Whether from the perspective of Napoleon or his opponents, the emergence of a European theme was born

17/06/2015

Romania

Wrecks turn up diving for archeology in the Danube

Historic treasures, ripe for discovery, are lying within easy reach for divers at the bottom of long-undisturbed waterways. Romanian scuba

16/06/2015

Belgium

Battle of Waterloo, live-tweeting 200 years on

For the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the euronews newsroom gives you the opportunity to relive the fateful day. Throughout June 18

15/06/2015

Belgium

Battle of Ligny: Napoleon's final victory re-enacted to mark bicentenary

Hundreds of volunteers have been re-enacting Napoleon Bonaparte’s final victory in Belgium. It was in Ligny that the French Emperor beat off the

14/06/2015

World News

A brief history of Transsexuality

A brief history of Transsexuality   Nature has been playing cruel jokes on human sexuality since the dawn of time, and society’s reaction to

05/06/2015

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Lego for the Waterloo anniversary!

30/05/2015

United Kingdom

Churchill war bunker Tube station set to come back from the dead

25/05/2015

Syria

ISIL militants reportedly seize Syrian city of Palmyra

ISIL militants have seized almost all of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It

20/05/2015

Syria

Syria: Ancient city of Palmyra under threat of ISIL rampage

Fears are growing for the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, hailed as one of the Middle East’s most precious cultural treasures, amid reports that

15/05/2015

My Europe Series

Greece draws battle lines over war reparations from Germany

The village of Distomo has long been a symbol of Greek suffering during the World War II Nazi occupation and also of war reparations Athens says Berlin has never paid.

08/05/2015

World

Last Red Army cameraman stuck his neck out all the way to Berlin

Boris Sokolov never fired a shot in WWII, he used a different kind of ammunition. He was a cameraman in the Red Army. He did participate in the heat

07/05/2015

Japan

Five issues that feed the WWII debate in Japan

06/05/2015

World News

Imprisoned with mum - survivors stories from Nazi France

Seventy years on from when France was liberated, war and imprisonment are still very painful memories for the victims of the Nazi occupation. Many of

05/05/2015

Germany

How World War II shaped modern Germany

05/05/2015

Russia

Twenty-seven million 'drops of pain' that heirs of USSR victory do not forget

Dmitry Koznov went to war at 18, in 1943, when Hitler’s invasion force still hovered not far from Moscow. The theatre school student took up arms to

05/05/2015

USA

How World War II shaped modern America

05/05/2015

France

How World War II shaped modern France

05/05/2015