by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 30, 2025 | Articles
The year 1943 marked the turning point of the Second World War, beginning with the German defeat by the Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad in February. In an encounter over the skies of Europe that same year, German pilot Franz Stigler spared a damaged and...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 28, 2025 | Articles
A Spanish tourist couple remains indifferent on the beach sand next to the lifeless body of an undocumented immigrant who had drowned during a shipwreck. The photo, titled “Death at the Gates of Heaven,” was taken by photographer Javier Bauluz and won the...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 27, 2025 | Articles
On the morning of 8 April 1940, during the Second World War, the British warship HMS Glowworm, under Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope, was on its way to rejoin the Allied squadron in the West Fjord of Norway when, through the fog of the Norwegian Sea, it...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 23, 2025 | Articles
On 27 December 2007, the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi witnessed the brutal silencing of one of its most prominent voices. As she was leaving a rally, Benazir Bhutto, the first woman to lead a modern Muslim state, was shot and, moments later, a suicide blast sealed her...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 20, 2025 | Articles
In the heart of Europe, at the very end of the twentieth century, a conflict of almost inconceivable brutality broke out, leaving an indelible scar on the continent’s conscience. The Bosnian War, fought officially between 6 April 1992 and 14 December 1995, was...
