BERLIN — Some 20,500 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the city of Cologne, in western Germany, as explosives experts prepared to defuse three unexploded World War II bombs found during ...

Homes, shops, hotels and schools were told to evacuate, as well as a large hospital and a major train station in what the city called "the largest operation since WW2". Cologne was subjected to ...

UP to 20,000 people have been forced to evacuate a historic German city after three unexploded WW2 bombs were found. Large parts of Cologne’s city centre, including hospitals, care … ...

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs. The American bombs ...

World War II veteran Lt. Thomas Kelly was finally laid to rest in his hometown of Livermore on Memorial Day, 81 years after he was deployed. In March 1944, Lt. Kelly's plane was shot down in Papua ...

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Sitting outside the new exhibit and taking pictures on Sunday with guests was World War II Veteran George Leland. "I'm over 100 years old. I still have my hair!" Leland said. One of the original ...

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Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

Thousands of people were being evacuated from central Cologne in western Germany on Wednesday following the discovery of three wartime bombs, in what the city authority called the largest such ...