An official visit to Tel Aviv, with all the pomp and ceremony, would have consolidated the relationship always portrayed as particularly close, yet the world's most traveled monarch never embarked on the trip.

The leader of the Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), Jarosław Kaczyński criticized the EU calling it as “the sacred duty” of Polish politicians to oppose it.

Warsaw says it is its “obligation” to seek reparations.

The Japanese city of Hiroshima has marked the 77th anniversary of the US atomic bombing during the World War 2.

A series of explosions at a bomb disposal site in Germany have caused a massive blaze in one of Berlin’s largest city forests​​​​​​​.

Russia has accused the United States of launching an anti-Russian messaging campaign across social media over the war in Ukraine, saying the move resembles the World War Two Nazi propaganda machine run by Joseph Goebbels.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended Moscow's military operation in Ukraine, saying it was necessary as the West was preparing to invade Russia.