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Nearly 14,000 residents of Lublin, Poland, are ordered to evacuate, after an unexploded bomb was found at the site of a pre-World War II factory yesterday.
2023-08-11

The high-altitude balloon is shot down by a United States Air Force F-22 Raptor over the Atlantic Ocean at 2:39 PM EST. An operation to collect the remnants of the balloon in U.S. territorial waters is currently underway. It is the first time that an aircraft has been shot down in the United States since World War II.
2023-02-4

The International Organization for Migration says that the refugee crisis has now become the largest and fastest exodus of people in Europe since World War II.
2022-03-5

U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson meet a day ahead of the 47th G7 summit to sign the New Atlantic Charter, an updated version of the original 1941 Atlantic Charter signed during World War II.
2021-06-10

The wreck of Japanese warship "Kaga", sunk in the Battle of Midway during World War II, is discovered on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean. It is only the second vessel sunk during the battle to have been found.
2019-10-18

MPs vote 236–220 in favour of moving out of the Houses of Parliament for six years while the Palace of Westminster undergoes repairs at a cost of around £4 billion. The move out of Westminster will not occur before 2025. It will be the first time MPs have moved out of the Palace of Westminster since World War II.
2018-01-31

The Wallenberg family files an application to formally declare Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg (born in 1912) to be dead. Wallenberg saved the lives of thousands of Jews in World War II only to disappear at the hands of the Soviet forces.
2016-03-30

Pressure is raised in Hungary for authorities to arrest alleged former Nazi war criminal László Csatáry, 97, who was discovered living in Hungary. Csatáry is wanted in connection with his role in the deportation of Jews to death camps during the Second World War.
2012-07-18

The Government of Japan apologizes to Canada over the treatment of Canadian POWs during World War II.
2011-12-8

Twelve thousand people are evacuated from the German city of Halle, following the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb.
2011-10-27