Eighty years after the devastating battle for Stalingrad in southern Russia, one of the bloodiest chapters of World War II, volunteers like Andrei Oreshkin are still retrieving remains of killed Soviet soldiers.. "It is true that the (World War II era) victories were really huge for our country," he said.
The Battle of Stalingrad, which turned the tide of World War II 80 years ago when German forces capitulated to the Red Army, remains a powerful symbol of patriotism in Russia as it presses its war in Ukraine.. But in November, the Red Army staged a forceful counter-offensive, overcoming the enemy troops who were trapped and left to starve in the Soviet winter.
Decked out in helmet, belt, gold-plated armor and sandals, Juan Pablo Huanacchini Mamani gazes out vacantly from the Ollantaytambo Inca ruins in Peru.. Situated around 60 kilometers (40 miles) from Cusco -- the old Inca capital that acts as a hub for those visiting Machu Picchu -- Ollantaytambo has its own ruins of an Inca citadel that are worth visiting, if not as spectacular as those at Machu Picchu.
The wife of a jailed Bolivian opposition leader accused the government Monday of having used a hidden camera to film "intimacy" between her and her husband on a prison visit.. The 30-year-old, who married Camacho in May last year, claimed that with "hidden cameras, the government recorded my intimacy as a woman and our intimacy as a couple."
Liberian President and former international football star George Weah announced Monday that he would run for a second term in October, rejecting mounting criticism that he is out of touch with a population facing steep price rises and food shortages.. Until December 8 the president was not seen in his homeland, where people have been battling soaring prices and shortages of basic goods.
Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under investigation for his supporters' storming of government buildings, is seeking a six-month visa to remain in the United States, his lawyer said Monday.. AG Immigration Group, a California-based law firm known for its work with Brazilians, said that Bolsonaro has requested a six-month visa to stay in the United States.
The UN humanitarian chief said Monday he has pleaded with the Taliban to let women participate in a massive effort to support desperate Afghans struggling to survive a "savage" winter.. "Last winter, we managed to survive.
When Karl and Rosi Adler fled the Nazis in 1938 they sold a Pablo Picasso painting to fund their escape.. "Thannhauser was well aware of the plight of Adler and his family, and that, absent Nazi persecution, Adler would never have sold the painting when he did at such a price," reads the complaint.
A Spanish court ordered Monday a Moroccan man accused of storming two churches with a machete to be remanded in custody without bail on murder and terrorism charges.. He attacked "with the intention to kill" a Moroccan man he "considered to be an infidel" because he believed he had renounced his Muslim faith, it added.
Germany promised an additional 31 million euros ($33 million) for the Brazilian Amazon ahead of a visit Monday by Chancellor Olaf Scholz to the South American giant reeling from rainforest destruction under ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.. Scholz will be the first German chancellor to visit Brazil since 2015, and the first Western leader to meet leftist Lula since he became president on January 1 after four years of frosty relations with Brazil under far-right Bolsonaro.
