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Georgia's authorities used a World War One-era chemical weapon to quell anti-government protesters last year, evidence gathered by the BBC suggests. "You could feel [the water] burning," one of the ...

In November 1940, the Royal Navy launched Operation Judgment, a top-secret plan to eliminate the Italian fleet in port at Taranto. The attack was carried out entirely by 20 obsolete Fairey Swordfish ...