Germany Nazi concentration camp secretary charged with complicity to murder It is believed to be the first time for several years that a woman has been charged in relation to wartime Nazi atrocities. 05/02/2021
Russia George Blake, notorious Soviet Cold War double agent, dies at 98 Blake was jailed in the 1960s for betraying the British foreign intelligence service but escaped and spent the rest of his life behind the Iron Curtain. 26/12/2020
USA World’s first supersonic fighter pilot Chuck Yeager dies aged 97 The first man to fly a plane faster than the speed of sound, Charles “Chuck” Yeagar, has died aged 97. 08/12/2020
Switzerland Swiss to evacuate village threatened by vast WWII explosive depot A risk assessment of the underground depot carried out over the previous two years said it presents "unacceptable" risks based on current safety regulations. 07/12/2020
Germany It's 50 years since Willy Brandt knelt to apologise for Nazi crimes The gesture forms the foundation of modern relations between Germany and Poland. 07/12/2020
Norway Nazi warship found 80 years after being sunk off Norwegian coast The shipwreck was detected by an energy company using sonars to inspect undersea power cables. 11/09/2020
United Kingdom VJ Day: UK marks 75th anniversary of 1945 Japanese surrender Boris Johnson laid flowers of remembrance and observed a two minute silence at the National Memorial Arboretum. 15/08/2020
United Kingdom Johnson hosts Macron in London for de Gaulle anniversary Boris Johnson hosts Emmanuel Macron on the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous speech from WWII 18/06/2020
no comment Ceremony honouring the fallen on D-Day in Normandy A small ceremony was held on Saturday morning at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-Sur-Mer on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings, to honour the sacrifice of those who died. 06/06/2020
View The EU cannot afford to keep Romania in quarantine when it reopens the Schengen zone ǀ View 18/05/2020
