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With the dramatic Normandy coast at his back, US President Joe Biden said the US soldiers who fought their way onto the French beaches 80 years ago to combat the tyranny of German leader Adolf Hitler would expect their modern-day counterparts to do the same. "As we gather here today, it’s not just to honour those who showed such remarkable bravery that day June 6, 1944," Biden told those gathered for the sombre ceremony. "It’s to listen to the echo of their voices. To hear them. Because they are summoning us. They’re asking us what will we do." The soldiers storming those beaches who risked th...
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US President Joe Biden has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine totalling $225 million. Biden personally delivered the message to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at a meeting in Paris. The US Defense Department said the package includes missiles for Hawk air defence systems, ammunition for the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers as well as Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and artillery ammunition. The US is focusing its efforts on strengthening Ukraine's air defence and supplying the country with ammunition after a long break in deliveries. The United States is Kiev's most ...
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US President Joe Biden apologized to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Washington's long delay in approving a sweeping new military aid package for his country. Biden, during a meeting with Zelensky in Paris, said he wanted to "apologize" for the months-long hold-up to approve $61 billion in military spending for Ukraine, which was finally passed by Congress in late April. The US president blamed "some of our very conservative" members of Congress for the postponement in sending more ammunition and other weapons to Kiev. In the meantime, Ukraine suffered a number of front line setback...
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US President Joe Biden apologized to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Washington's long delay in approving a sweeping new military aid package for his country. Biden, during a meeting with Zelensky in Paris, said he wanted to "apologize" for the months-long hold-up in a $61 billion aid package, which was finally passed by Congress in late April. The US president blamed "some of our very conservative" members of Congress. "I'm not gonna walk away from you," Biden told Zelensky during a brief exchange of remarks made in front of reporters. On Thursday, Biden and Zelensky took part in t...
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US President Joe Biden is to give a keynote speech in the northern French region Normandy on Friday in defence of freedom and democracy as part of a visit to France that includes D-Day commemorative events. According to the White House, Biden is planning a speech on the power of democracy and the fight against aggressors and autocrats against the historic backdrop of Pointe du Hoc on the northern French coast. Pointe du Hoc is a stretch of coast in Normandy where Allied troops landed 80 years ago, on June 6, 1944, now known as D-Day, which marked the beginning of the liberation of France and W...
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Western leaders gathered on the beaches of northern France on Thursday to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that marked the start of the successful campaign to free Western Europe from the oppression of Nazi Germany. French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Britain's King Charles III were among the leaders who paid tribute to the Allied troops who served on June 6, 1944. "They left everything behind and took all risks for our independence, for our freedom. We will not forget that," Macron said at the Normandy American Ce...
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US President Joe Biden made a forceful plea for the defence of democracy on Thursday at a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. "We know the dark forces that these heroes fought against 80 years ago - they never fade," Biden said at a ceremony at the American Cemetery in the northern French region of Normandy, as D-Day veterans, some over 100 years old, looked on. "Aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force — these are perennial. The struggle between dictatorship and freedom is unending." "Here in Europ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron thanked the soldiers deployed in the Allied landing in Normandy 80 years ago, at events commemorating the start of the 1944 campaign to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. "They left everything behind and took all risks for our independence, for our freedom. We will not forget that," Macron said at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-mer, in the presence of US President Joe Biden and around 170 veterans. "The free world needed every one of you and you came," Macron said. "You fought this war by our side, and we won it." Macron honoured 11 elderly US...
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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal honoured the soldiers who were part of the Normandy landings as heroes, at a ceremony on Juno beach as the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the operations that helped end World War II. "Our gratitude is eternal," said Attal on Thursday at a Canadian commemoration ceremony in the beachside town of Courseulles-Sur-Mer. "France will never forget those who died for her." Attal called the veterans "heroes," "figures of courage" and "faces of freedom" and vowed to keep the memory of them and their fallen comrades alive. Attal said he was part of a genera...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz honoured the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, as a "day of liberation" for France, many other European countries occupied by Nazi forces, and also for Germany. The date marked "the beginning of the end of the inhuman system of National Socialism, of its racial mania and militarism, of the will to destroy and imperialist fantasies," Scholz said in an article published in Ouest France, a French newspaper, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the landing of Allied troops in Normandy during World War II. The courage of the liberators had paved the wa...
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