Jake Cigainero

Two white crosses engraved with names sit in a cemetary

A high school project reunites twin brothers 74 years after they died on a ship in Normandy

The Pieper twins grew up together, enlisted together, served together and died together. But they couldn’t be buried together because Julius “Henry” Pieper was missing in action.

Former French embassy employee Bernard Boursicot, 41, left and Shi Pei Pu, 47, a singer in Chinese traditional opera face the judge as their trial began in Paris, May 5, 1986.

At 83, the embassy worker at the center of the ‘M. Butterfly’ story is still an enigma

Arts
Laura Passoni took her four-year-old son to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS and realized quickly she'd made a terrible mistake. "From that moment I did everything to try to leave so that my son wouldn’t become a terrorist,” she says.

A Belgian woman explains why she joined ISIS, and why she came back

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British veteran Leslie Dobinson (left) and American veteran James Kunkle in La Cambe share their memories of the 1944 Normandy landings and the days that followed.

D-Day veterans make what may be their last trip to Normandy

Conflict & Justice

A Summer Beach With A View Of The Eiffel Tower

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