About World War
A world war is "a war engaged in by all or most of the principal nations of the world". While a variety of global conflicts have been subjectively deemed "world wars", such as the Cold War and the War . . .
Ukraine war: Soldier tells BBC of front-line 'hell'
... Ukraine s commander-in-chief Gen Valery Zaluzhny told the Economist magazine in November that, " just like the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate...
Commonwealth Games: Gold Coast mayor scraps bid for 2026 event
... They have only ever been cancelled during World War Two...
Henry Kissinger's Cambodia legacy of bombs and chaos
... For context, the Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during the whole of World War II, including the bombs that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Trafalgar Square Christmas tree arrives at Port of Immingham
... The tree, which is sent each year as a token of thanks for Britain s support during World War Two, is at the Port of Immingham after arriving by boat...
PMQs: Rishi Sunak accuses Greek PM of grandstanding over Elgin Marbles
... They have been in the British Museum since 1832, aside from a stint in Aldwych Tube station during World War Two to prevent damage and...
Elon Musk visits Israel after antisemitism row
... Yeah, in World War Two, " Mr Netanyahu said...
How did a little corner of Canada end up in Old Harlow?
... The campus, which has 16 staff and up to 60 students at any one time, was the brainchild of Lord Taylor of Harlow who, after helping create the new town of Harlow after World War Two, became president of Memorial on the other side of the Atlantic...
Israel-Gaza war: The Red Cross's delicate role in hostage crises
... In the Red Cross museum in Geneva, there is an archive of six million registration cards, with details of the prisoners and the missing from two World Wars...
Elon Musk visits Israel after antisemitism row
Israel's president has told Elon Musk he has " an important role" in preventing antisemitism, which both he and his Social Media platform X have been accused of promoting.
Addressing The Entrepreneur , Isaac Herzog said Social Media " including some you Lead - Harbor so much of the age-old disease of antisemitism".
On Monday Mr Musk visited a kibbutz Hamas targeted in its deadly attack.
He toured the Kfar Aza with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .
Mr Musk was shown footage of the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, in which 1,200 people died and 240 were taken hostage, including brutal footage from bodycams. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says More Than 14,500 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory campaign.
The pair also held a brief live-streamed conversation on X, during which Mr Musk agreed with Mr Netanyahu that the only way to obtain peace and security was to destroy Hamas.
" You first have to get rid of the poisonous regime as you did in Germany, as you did in Japan. Yeah, in World War Two, " Mr Netanyahu said.
Mr Musk replied: " There's no choice. There's no choice".
The Trip also saw an agreement reached over Mr Musk's satellite internet service, Starlink.
After Gaza experienced major internet disruption and outages as Israel intensified its military operations, Mr Musk had suggested giving Starlink to major aid organisations in The Territory .
But Israel argued the tech would be used by Hamas.
Now an agreement has been reached that Starlink can only be used in Israel and Gaza with approval of the Israeli government. Israel's Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi said this understanding was " vital".
Mr Musk's visit comes after Apple, Disney, IBM and Comcast paused adverts on X in The Wake of an investigation by a US group, Media Matters for America, which flagged ads appearing next to pro-Nazi posts.
Advertising is a critical source of income for X, which has fiercely challenged The Report , questioning its Research Methods . It has launched what Elon Musk billed as a " thermonuclear lawsuit" against the organisation.
In response, Media Matters called Mr Musk a bully.
Mr Musk has also been criticised for promoting an antisemitic trope when he replied to a post on X that shared a Conspiracy Theory which Falsely Accused Jewish communities of pushing hatred against White People ,
It appeared to be an endorsement of a racist and antisemitic Conspiracy Theory known as " white genocide, " which argues that Jewish People systematically plot to encourage immigration of " non-white" people to Western countries in order to " eliminate" the white race.
It prompted a significant backlash, with the White House among those denouncing Mr Musk's endorsement of The Post .
Mr Musk has denied his post was antisemitic and has said his comments referred not to all Jewish People but to groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who have been critical of The Platform , and other unspecified groups.
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