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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) - 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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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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Paris (AFP) - Western leaders will this week mark on the beaches of northern France 80 years since Allied troops surged into Nazi occupied Europe in the World War II D-Day landings, haunted by the war again raging on the continent as Ukraine battles Russian invasion. French President Emmanuel Macron is to host US President Joe Biden, British King Charles III and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the shores of Normandy, representing the three main countries involved in the landings on June 6, 1944. But in a strong act of symbolism, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also attend...
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Caen (France) (AFP) - As France prepares to mark 80 years since Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, the historic coastline faces a new threat -- rising sea levels linked to climate change. More than 100 kilometres (62 miles) of Normandy's coastline bear traces of June 6, 1944, including bunkers, shipwrecked vessels, and other vestiges from the Allied troops' first step to freeing western Europe from Nazi German occupation. But now, the sea from which 150,000 Allied troops conducted the largest seaborne invasion in history threatens those same heritage sites. Rising sea levels are ...
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College Park (United States) (AFP) - Seated side by side behind an antiquated viewer, the sisters run and rerun the 35 mm black-and-white film reel, whispering to each other about the images captured by their father, the only cameraman on Omaha Beach on D-Day. In the footage taken on June 6, 1944 in northern France, a handful of US soldiers advance on shore. One falls to the ground, a victim of German bullets. And even though he suffered a wound to his left arm, Sergeant Richard Taylor kept filming. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Allied beach landings in Normandy, Taylor's daughters are ...
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Burbank (United States) (AFP) - Reels of film and the Hollywood stars who fill them share one common enemy: aging. But while an actor can go under the knife or get a bit of filler in an effort to stay young, it's a one-way street for film, which eventually starts to break down into its original -- rather prosaic -- ingredients. "Film base is actually wood pulp and acetic acid in its simplest form," says Tim Knapp of California-based film preservation specialists Pro-Tek Vaults. "Acetic acid over time produces what is called 'vinegar syndrome' which degrades the base of the film... and prevent...
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Carol Stream (United States) (AFP) - Richard Rung recalls it vividly: German artillery firing on his landing craft, the sound of machine gun bullets striking the vessel, blood mixed with seawater on the deck, troops crying on the beach. It has been nearly eight decades since Rung landed in France on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- as a 19-year-old US Navy sailor, part of a massive amphibious invasion that broke through German coastal defenses in a key victory for Allied forces. He now lives in a suburb of Chicago with Dorothy, his wife of 75 years, but his memories of the violence and death he witnes...
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Kingwood (United States) (AFP) - Before a T. rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly reconstructed -- cleaned, fit together and even painted. For US restorationist Lauren McClain, the process is like putting together a giant 3D puzzle. McClain's job begins at her home workshop near Houston, Texas, where she carefully clears away dirt stuck to the more than 60-million-year-old remains using a tiny drill with an air compressor, similar to a dentist's tool. Then, she must assemble this ancient puzzle -- even t...
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