Al Jazeera speaks to some of the 900,000 pensioners on the front line, some of whom survived World War II.

American historian finds hundreds of desperate letters written by Slovak Jews during the Nazi era.

Residents are losing hope in areas near the contact line between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces.

Women refugees say they have miscarried, been separated from their children by border guards, and been hospitalised.

At least one child has died as others among the thousands of people at the border suffer from hunger and hypothermia.

Children, many who arrived in Europe alone, say they fear for their families in Afghanistan.

Rights groups say 10 journalists have been detained and more than two dozen threatened due to work on the pandemic.