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A child picked up the explosive and brought it into the nursery

Unexploded Second World War Bomb Found on Shelf in Germany Nursery

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 6, 2017 | World

German police evacuated a school in the city of Darmstadt on Wednesday, after a “strange object” lying on a shelf among some toys found by one of the children was revealed to be an unexploded World War Two bomb. “A child had found the stick-type incendiary bomb...

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Members of the Dutch Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit stand next to a 500-pound bomb from World War II in Wannenaar, the Netherlands (file image) ROBIN UTRECHT/AFP/Getty Images

Hannover Evacuates 50,000 over ‘World War Two bombs’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 7, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Hanover, Germany – German authorities are conducting one of the largest bomb disposal operations since World War II. More than 50,000 residents in the northwestern German city are obliged to evacuate their homes. The evacuation process started on Friday evening...

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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Reuters

Talk on the World Walking into a Cold War Era

by Abdullatif Jaber, Fayza Kamel and Taha Abed el Wahed | Oct 14, 2016 | Features

Beijing, London, Moscow- An intensifying arms race and deployment of missile defense systems have added to the continued tensions shared between the United States, Russia and China, alarming forecasts on a nearing second Cold War. The world faces cold war era threat...