#world-war-ii

#world-war-ii

Even President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine now says so: The country's long-awaited counteroffensive to retake Russian-occupied territory has begun.After months of defending against a barrage of airstrikes, Ukraine is on the offense, looking for vulnerabilities along the 600-mile front line and even launching strikes on Russian soil.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has anchored his 2024 presidential campaign to calling out former President Donald Trump specifically his falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election.During a CNN town hall on Monday, Christie who lost to Trump in the 2016 Republican primary before supporting him later that year and again in 2020 didn't spread nearly as many falsehoods as the 2024 GOP front-runner.

An approximately 700-pound bronze Nazi eagle that once adorned a German warship and in recent years became the subject of a court case in Uruguay will be melted down and turned into a dove, the South American nation's president said on Friday, a move that he said would transform a symbol of violence and war into one of peace and unity.

Abandoned cats and dogs roam vacant streets lined with blasted apartment buildings, rubble and crumpled cars in Shebekino, a Russian border town pounded by shelling from Ukraine.A hair salon still smoldered last week.Every window in the blackened carcass of the police headquarters was blown out.Almost all of the 40,000 inhabitants had fled, officials said.

ROME Silvio Berlusconi, the brash media mogul who revolutionized Italian television with privately owned channels that he used to become the country's most polarizing and prosecuted prime minister over multiple stints in office and an often scandalous quarter-century of political and cultural influence, died on Monday at San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia wrapped up what was for him an extraordinary and sometimes rambling week of upbeat commentary on the Ukraine war by asserting on Friday that Russia was so assured of prevailing against the Ukrainian counteroffensive that he had ruled out using nuclear weapons.Dropping what had been a strict avoidance of discussing the war in any detail, Mr. Putin told an audience of Russia's business elite, gathered for the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, that Ukraine had no chance against Russian forces and indicated that its Western backers would tire of the conflict and stop supplying weapons, ending Kyiv's war effort.

A downed Nazi war plane is displayed outside the Metropol Hotel in Moscow in 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.During World War II, Western journalists covering the Soviet side of the war were largely confined to the hotel and were not permitted to go near the frontlines.Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE P 'The Red Hotel' tells the story of Western journalists who were largely confined to Moscow's Metropol Hotel as they attempted to cover the Soviet side of World War II.

In 2006, the British artist Hurvin Anderson painted his first barbershop scene.In Barbershop, reflections from the mirrors above a worktop create a series of rectangular patterns, like an abstract painting.In front, two slightly disordered chairs sit surrounded by scraps of hair, as if the clients have only just left, and the viewer is next to sit down.

This week, a look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago focuses on homes in Ditmas Park West, Bay Ridge, East Flatbush, and Prospect Park South.How did they fare?In Ditmas Park West, quirky ogee arches contrast with World War II-era scientific design in a two-bedroom co-op.It's on the fourth floor of The Collingswood at 385 Argyle Road, a six-story, 60-unit elevator building that opened in 1941.

Armies have been storming trench lines for more than a hundred years, but for all the advances in military technology, it is no less harrowing now than it was when soldiers were crossing the muddy battlefields of World War I. Assaults can be stealthy and surgical, employing surprise, or launched with overwhelming force, using drone strikes, or tanks and artillery.

When Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the field to protest being racially abused by an opposing team's fans a decade ago, he set soccer authorities on a path toward tougher sanctions in cases of discrimination.His teammates at Italian club AC Milan had his back when Boateng, who is Black, refused to tolerate the abusive chants he heard from fans of a small provincial club during a mid-season exhibition game in 2013.