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Australian Defence Minister draws parallels between China's rise and 1930s
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], September 9 (ANI): Defence Minister Peter Dutton has compared the rise of China to Nazi Germany in the 1930s saying that the world is "grappling with a regional environment far more complex and far less predictable than at any time since the Second World War," a media r
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China seeks to become world's next superpower, using espionage to dethrone
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 9 (ANI): China seeks to become the world's next superpower, dethroning the United States and tearing apart the rules-based international system that American and its allies have built since the end of World War 2, according to a report published in The National Int
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China's massive military, nuclear build-up cause for major concern: US Adm
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): The head of the US Indo-Pacific Command has said that China's military expansion, the largest military build-up in history since the second world war, is a cause of major concern.
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Lawmaker says 'darkest day' in Plymouth since WWII after 6 killed in shoot
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Plymouth [UK] August 13 (ANI/Sputnik): A mass shooting which left six people dead in Plymouth, southwest England, is the darkest hour in the city's history since the end of World War II, a member of parliament for Plymouth, Sutton Luke Pollard told new agencies.
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Nagasaki pays homage to 1945 atomic bomb victims
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 9 (ANI): Seventy-six years ago today (August 9) Nagasaki faced the brunt of the atomic bomb dropped by the US that marked the end of the Second World War.
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Hiroshima calls for abandoning of nuclear deterrence on bombing anniversar
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Hiroshima [Japan], August 6 (ANI): On the 76th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the city has called to abandon the atomic deterrence.
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India-Russia relationship among steadiest in the world, says EAM Jaishanka
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 8 (ANI): External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar on Thursday said the relationship between India and Russia has been among the steadiest in the world and called for constant nurturing of the bilateral ties that have remained strong years after the Second World W
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Last surviving soldier who liberated Auschwitz in WWII, dies at 98
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], June 7 (ANI): David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who helped liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau, has died at the age of 98, according to a statement by the Jewish community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.
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Praxis Business School launches Women in Tech Scholarship Program across a
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal)/ Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 28 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Delve into the history of computing and one will find that women played integral roles, in large numbers, in the World War II war effort in the United States.
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China eyes World War II-era airstrip in archipelago of Kiribati
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Tarawa [Kiribati], May 10 (ANI): China is eyeing the World War II-era airstrip in the archipelago of Kiribati, deep in the Pacific, positioned just 1,800 miles from Hawaii.
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Monuments to Soviet soldiers in China remain in good condition - Consul Ge
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Most of the monuments dedicated to the Soviet soldiers who died liberating China from the Japanese occupation during the Second World War are well-preserved, Russian Consul General in Harbin Vladimir Oshchepkov has told Sputnik.
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Chinese scientists discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses 5 years befor
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 9 (ANI): A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a "new era of genetic weapons" that could be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleash
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