For the first time since leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, North Koreans were asked to take loyalty oaths on his birthday, a South Korean research institute said, amid other steps the country is taking to solidify his…
Ken Potts, survivor of doomed Pearl Harbor warship, dies aged 102
One of the last two survivors from a US battleship sunk during Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor has died at the age of 102. Utah resident Howard Kenton Potts was a 20-year-old crane operator taking supplies to the USS…
Ben Ferencz: Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor dies, aged 103
The last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War Two Nuremberg trials has died aged 103. Ben Ferencz was just 27 when he secured the convictions of 22 Nazi officers for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He later advocated for…