Melissa L. Farris is in federal custody after the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, was vandalized with bubbles and spray-painted words reading “Clean hands Dirty $.” The 41-year-old Kentucky woman is accused of adding soap to the memorial fountain and painting the message on its stone surface on August 13. U.S. Attorney Jeanine … Read more
Polish officials and researchers say Moscow has sharply increased online messaging around the Volhynia massacres. Russia is being accused of using a painful chapter in the history of Poland and Ukraine to deepen tensions between the two countries, as Warsaw and Kyiv remain divided over the killings that took place during World War 2.Polish officials … Read more
London, When a wildfire broke out in the Muritz National Park of north-eastern Germany in July, it was no routine firefighting job. Bomb disposal teams had to work alongside firefighters because the forest floor is contaminated with cold war-era munitions. Crews could not approach parts of the blaze directly for fear of detonations. Europe’s wildfires … Read more