Osaka reminds me a lot of Odesa,” Oleksii Sobolev told me in an interview at the Osaka-Kansai Expo this month.

Finland's air force is moving to remove swastikas from its flags, partly due to the awkwardness it creates with Western ...

The UK and English flags have sprung up across parts of the country in recent weeks, draped on street lamps, strung out across streets and even painted onto intersections.

GENEVA — Finland’s Air Force, now part of NATO, still flies swastikas on a handful of unit flags — but is preparing to phase them out, largely to avoid awkwardness ...