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Mr. Burton Ellis Witherwax was born Aug. 21, 1927, in Woodlawn, La. He was the firstborn son of James and Gertrude Witherwax.

Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

Guam was in a war zone and our island was decimated during World War II. Although we have risen from ... disaster even as late as May 2023 with Typhoon Mawar. With climate change being a major ...

The latest moves by Trump’s administration are a sharp pivot into new, seemingly accommodating foreign policy. Would less U.S. presence around the world embolden China to make aggressive moves into ...

TAIPEI/BEIJING--Typhoon Gaemi swept through northern Taiwan on Thursday, killing two people, bringing floods and snarling traffic, before heading across the sea and into China where it is expected ...

Residents in northern Japan were battening down the hatches as powerful Typhoon No. 5 remained on course to make landfall in the Tohoku region on Aug. 12. Linear rainbands that cause prolonged ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

Japan’s nuclear history presents an opportunity to lead regional safety and disaster preparedness in East Asia ...

Germany has long had an unwritten rule against working with the far right, dating back to the aftermath of the horrors wrought by the Nazis in World War II. But protesters say the Christian ...

At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections. By Jim Tankersley and Andrew E. Kramer After years of ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...