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Carentan (France) (AFP) - It might have been the longest wait but on Saturday 100-year-old American World War II veteran Harold Terens married his 96-year-old fiancee in Normandy, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in northwestern France. To the sounds of "I will always love you", "Ave Maria" and bagpipes, Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin said "I do" in the town of Carentan-les-Marais at a ceremony attended by dozens of guests, some wearing military uniforms. To top off an extraordinary day, the newly wedded couple then attended the state banqu...
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Paris (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed Washington was "standing strong" with Ukraine as French counterpart Emmanuel Macron hosted him on a state visit overshadowed by Kyiv's fight against Russia's invasion and the looming US election. Speaking after visiting Normandy earlier this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day wartime landings, Biden repeatedly emphasised the value of America's European alliances in a swipe at his more isolationist election rival Donald Trump. With Ukraine struggling to repel Russian advances over two years into the war and in desperate need of greater West...
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Paris (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Saturday pledged Washington's support for Kyiv in its battle against the Russian invasion, warning that Vladimir Putin would "not stop" at Ukraine. "Putin is not going to stop at Ukraine," Biden said alongside French President Emmanuel Macron after talks in Paris. "All of Europe will be threatened, we are not going to let that happen," Biden told journalists during his state visit to France. "The United States is standing strong with Ukraine. We will not, I say it again, walk away," he added. Macron told Biden in front of reporters: "I thank you, Mr Pre...
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Caen (France) (AFP) - Hundred-year-old World War II veteran Harold Terens will marry his 96-year-old fiancee Saturday in the French town of Carentan-les-Marais, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that took place a few kilometres away. Terens's 11:00 am (0900 GMT) wedding to Jeanne Swerlin will be followed by a celebration "with his loved ones, in a small group", said Sarah Pasquier, the town hall's representative for D-Day commemorations. "We are very honoured that Mr. Terens has chosen to get married here, in Carentan, where in June 1944 the meeting o...
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Paris (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Friday urged the United States to protect democracy and follow the example of World War II heroes, in a speech on a clifftop in northern France that was the scene of a bloody confrontation between US troops and occupying Germans on D-Day. Biden gave the speech on the final day of ceremonies marking 80 years since the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944 that marked a turning point in World War II. The president is set to face Republican rival and predecessor Donald Trump later this year in elections that commentators predict will subject US democracy...
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Omaha Beach (France) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Thursday warned on the 80th anniversary of D-Day that democracy around the world was at risk, as leaders marked the 1944 landings in occupied France that helped defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Biden, Britain's King Charles III, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the tens of thousands of Allied troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944. An honoured additional guest was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a stark reminder of the war being...
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Ver-sur-Mer (France) (AFP) - Around 180 veterans in their late 90s or even over 100 were guests of honour at D-Day commemorations in France on Thursday, many attending in wheelchairs for possibly the last time. At British, US and Canadian ceremonies, they recounted their memories of the Allied landings on June 6, 1944, that would help expel German forces from France and end World War II. British former combatant Joe Mines, 99, said he had returned to the Normandy seaside town of Ver-sur-Mer for the first time in 80 years because it was likely his "last and only opportunity". "I wanted to pay m...
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Saint-Lô (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hailed the "spirit of sacrifice" of the soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazi occupation, as he prepared to join US counterpart Joe Biden and King Charles III to mark 80 years since the World War II D-Day landings. The three days of events in France, which will peak Thursday with ceremonies attended by world leaders on the Normandy beaches where the landings took place, are haunted by the new war shadowing Europe as Ukraine battles Russia's invasion. Macron will host Biden, King Charles III and Canadian Prime Minister Ju...
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Washington (AFP) - Only a tiny number of people in Britain, France and Germany put great faith in the United States to guarantee their security over the coming decade, a survey said Wednesday, ahead of an election in which Donald Trump has thrown doubt on alliances. The Eurasia Group's Institute for Global Affairs, in its survey of the three western European nations, still found that more people than not expected the United States to be at least "somewhat" reliable. But only six percent said that the United States would be a "very reliable" guarantor of European security over the next decade, ...
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Aboard Air Force One (AFP) - Joe Biden headed for France on Tuesday to mark 80 years since the World War II D-Day landings and promote America as a defender of democracy and international alliances -- contrasting himself against election rival Donald Trump. "We are the world power," the 81-year-old Democrat said in an interview with Time magazine published Tuesday, laying out his vision of continued US leadership of an increasingly fragile post-war international order. Biden's trip comes as US allies fear an alternative future -- one in which a comeback victory by Republican Trump in November'...
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