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Castle Bravo survivors (from left) Susan Ned, Kathy Joel and Mina Titus on a beach on Mejatto Island in the Marshall Islands. Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior III, is in the background.

‘I saw the flash’: How US nuclear tests changed life on this Pacific idyll forever

Marshall Islands locals watched radioactive coral fall from the sky for hours after the US’s bomb tests, 71 years ago. Now they face another existential threat.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Italian Senator Francesco Giacobbe, from Sydney, in his office in Rome this week

Australia’s Italians out in the cold as Rome rewrites citizenship rules

As Italy enacts stricter laws on citizenship eligibility, Australians with Italian roots are scrambling to secure passports, with many now barred from reclaiming their heritage.

  • Rob Harris
Music can be found in the most unlikely places and played by the most unlikely people.

A harmless man of mystery took to the piano. What happened next shocked the people of Watsons Bay

The ABC’s new series, The Piano, has echoes of an impromptu concert that is part of Sydney’s folklore.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Friedrich Merz of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) is congratulated by colleagues after he won in a second vote in his election as German chancellor.

Merz becomes Germany’s 10th chancellor hours after historic initial defeat

A candidate for chancellor has never failed to win on the first ballot since the end of World War II.

  • Stefanie Dazio and Kirsten Grieshaber
The Prince and Princess of Wales mark VE Day on the Buckingham Palace balcony with their children (L-R) Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte.

As war again rages in Europe, VE Day reminds us all what’s at stake

Eighty years on, the story of Australia’s Stanley Bruce, Winston Churchill and Victory in Europe Day remains strikingly relevant.

  • Rob Harris
Adolf Hitler with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl on Nazi party day in Nuremberg, 1934.

Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth

The director of a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl trawled through 700 boxes of material from her estate to find answers.

  • Garry Maddox
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The AfD, now the second-largest party in the German government, is on a similar electoral trajectory to Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Lest we forget history. Has the next world war already begun?

It’s 80 years since the end of WWII. If we don’t remember how it began, we are doomed to relive it.

  • Dennis Glover
Gwenda Garde (nee Moulton), 102, at home in Orange, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service.

The teenager who hunted Japanese submarines

Gwenda Garde, aged 102, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service during World War II as a translator of Japanese Morse code.

  • Tim Barlass
Two-up at the Sackville Hotel, Rozelle on Anzac Day, 2022.

Two-up: a ‘fair dinkum’ tradition or a devilish game of skill?

Two-up is played religiously on Anzac Day at pubs and clubs across Australia. But is there a darker side to the simple coin toss, and can you improve your chances?

  • Penry Buckley
Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans and Olivia DeJonge as Ella in The Narrow Road to the Deep North. 

Horror and heartbreak is real in the devastating Narrow Road to the Deep North

With a tender performance from Jacob Elordi at its centre, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful and harrowing war stories I have seen. 

  • Louise Rugendyke

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