BUDAPEST, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The German government has agreed to pay 12.3 million euros (19 million dollars) to about 6,500 Jewish survivors of the Nazi occupation of Budapest, an international Jewish organisation said Wednesday.

HIROSHIMA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The mayor of Hiroshima on Wednesday urged the next US president to work to abolish atomic weapons as the city marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.

HIROSHIMA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - For years, Steven Leeper took the view of many fellow Americans about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima -- that it was an inevitable part of war.

But after a lifetime of reflection, he is now the first foreigner to head an anti-nuclear foundation in the western Japanese city -- and has set his sights on persuading his country to agree with him.

HIROSHIMA, August 6, 2008 (AFP) - The Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 63rd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack amid hope the next US president will work for the abolition of atomic weapons.

HOUVIG, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - With a tight grip on his flashlight, Tommy Cassoe looks like a Danish Indiana Jones as he crawls out of a bunker buried under the sand, one of 7,000 the Nazis built along Denmark's western shores to fend off an allied invasion.

WARSAW, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Sirens wailed across Poland's capital Friday as the country commemorated a World War II uprising against the Nazi Germans which broke out 64 years ago but failed after two months of bitter street fighting.

ZAGREB, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Israel's ambassador to Croatia on Thursday criticised a local Catholic priest who paid tribute to a World War II concentration camp commander when conducting his funeral.

'I strongly condemn the inadequate words of the priest who conducted the funeral, who pronounced (Dinko) Sakic a role model for Croats,' ambassador Shmuel Meirom said in statement.

WARSAW, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - A massive bomb dating from the Second World War on Tuesday forced the evacuation of a hotel and several homes in southwest Poland, police said.

Construction workers in Wroclaw discovered the explosive in the city centre, police spokesman Wojciech Wybraniec said, according to the Polish PAP news agency.

BUDAPEST, July 29, 2008 (AFP) - Hungarian authorities evacuated some 16,000 people from a residential area in the centre of the capital Budapest on Tuesday as disposal experts moved in to examine an unexploded World War II bomb.

RHODES, July 26, 2008 (AFP) - Dozens of families from around the world gathered Saturday on the Greek island of Rhodes to pay tribute to the man who in 1944 saved 40 Jews from being deported to a Nazi concentration camps.