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Known as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison lived at 12 Arnold Grove in Liverpool’s Wavertree from his birth in 1943 until the age of seven. Having left his mark on the music world, not least by writing beloved track Here Comes the Sun, Harrison died of cancer in 2001 aged 58. His widow Olivia Harrison, who is unveiling the tribute at the guitarist’s unassuming former house alongside UK Culture Minister Stephen Parkinson, described the plaque as “a source of family pride”. The blue plaque at the Victorian two-up two-down terraced house in Liverpool is only the third outside of London, with the first...
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Sydney (AFP) - Plusieurs centaines de personnes se sont rassemblées dimanche avec des bougies sur la plage emblématique de Bondi, à Sydney, pour rendre hommage aux six victimes qui ont succombé aux coups de couteau d'un assaillant dans un centre commercial voisin. Ces meurtres du 13 avril ont causé la stupeur chez de nombreux Australiens, dans un pays où les crimes d'une telle violence restent rares. Le public s'est assis sur l'herbe dans un parc du bord de mer pour pleurer les cinq femmes et l'agent de sécurité pakistanais qui ont trouvé la mort lors de l'attaque dans le centre commercial Wes...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Army was on Wednesday working to remove a controversial Confederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery as part of efforts to change names and take down monuments that honor the pro-slavery breakaway southern states. A court had temporarily halted removal of the memorial from the cemetery -- the hallowed final resting place of some 400,000 veterans and their dependents -- but later allowed it to proceed. "In accordance with the recent court ruling, the Army has resumed the deliberate process of removing the Confederate Memorial from Arlington National Cemetery imm...
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New York (AFP) - Will the United States soon have a national monument commemorating the victims of Covid-19? Calls for a permanent memorial are increasing in the country with the largest pandemic death toll of more than 540,000. Since Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president in January, and with America now in its second year of the pandemic, ceremonies honoring the dead -- mostly virtual -- have multiplied. Minute silences, flags at half mast, and places of contemplation: ephemeral moments of solemn respect have sprung up nearly everywhere. From 20,000 flags planted in the Mall in Washi...
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