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Children playing in a stream near the town of Völklingen, in western Germany's flood-affected Saarland, discovered an artillery shell from World War II, police said on Sunday evening. The children found the object early on Saturday evening after it had been likely dislodged by flood waters, the police said. Upon closer inspection the object turned out to be a US shell from WWII. The police explosive ordnance disposal service removed it, a police statement said, adding there was no danger to residents. Germany is accustomed to finding unexploded World War II munitions from Allied and Soviet bom...
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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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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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Russian hackers forced several Ukrainian and Latvian television channels to unintentionally broadcast parts of the annual Victory Day military parade in Moscow's Red Square. In Ukraine, media groups Starlight Media and Inter, public television, and the channels Dim and Apostrophe TV were affected by the cyberattack, Detector Media, a media site, reported on Thursday. In Latvia, media regulator chief Ivars Abolins said web and TV operator Balticom's programme was affected. Russia traditionally commemorates the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler's Germany in 1945 with a military parade. Thursday...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow on Thursday to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional con...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow on Thursday to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional con...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow on Thursday to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional con...
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Authorities in an Estonian border city have put up a large placard with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin captioned "war criminal," in dimensions big enough so it can be seen from neighbouring Russia, according to local media. The placard was put up on the exterior walls of the medieval Hermann Castle in Narva, Estonia's third-largest city in the north-east of the country that sits on the border to Russia. The poster shows a bloodstained portrait of Putin and is captioned "Putin - War Criminal." The poster, which is several metres long, is visible from the nearby Russian city of Iv...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's victory in the war, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional conflicts, ethnic or religious conf...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the West in remarks at the military parade in Moscow to mark the 79th anniversary of Allied victory over Adolf Hitler's Germany. The West is trying to distort the memory of the Soviet Union's victory in the war, Putin said in Moscow on Thursday. The truth disturbs "those who build their colonial policy on hypocrisy and lies," Putin claimed. "Revanchism, the mockery of history, the effort to justify today's imitators of the Nazis - this is part of the general policy of Western elites to constantly ignite new regional conflicts, ethnic or religious conf...
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