Paris celebrates 1944 liberation day
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Large crowds have lined Paris streets to witness military columns roll through marking the 60th anniversary of the cityâs liberation from German occupation.
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A ceremony of commemoration to mark Holocaust Memorial Day took place in City Hall in Dublin this evening.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated an  expanded Holocaust Memorial in Paris on Tuesday promising  dozens of Nazi death camp survivors that France would "never  forget what it could not prevent."
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Thousands of people in Paris are preparing to mark the anniversary of the city&#39;s liberation in World War II. Sixty years ago, the Nazi troops who had occupied the French capital for four years, surrendered.
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Celebrations to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France took a musical turn Saturday with a big concert in London bringing together stars from both sides of the Channel.
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A military parade in Kiev marks the 60th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi occupation.
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Military vessels and aircraft streamed along France's Mediterranean coastline Sunday in an impressive ceremony commemorating World War II Allied landings in the region 60 years ago that proved a follow-up to the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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Ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi rule have continued with Mass at the city's Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Paris turned back the clock Wednesday for a grand fete to remember the tears and the euphoria that heralded the liberation of the French capital 60 years ago as it threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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Germany marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with fond memories of that day's joyous celebrations and somber ceremonies in honor of those killed in a desperate dash for freedom.
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There was little bread and barely any butter. Without coal, electricity or gas, Parisians were cooking meals on camp fires in the streets. By the summer of 1944, the French capital &#151; under the Nazi boot for four years &#151; was hungry, exhausted and seething with revenge.
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These pictures were taken at Chez Clement, in Paris, this evening. A good time was had by all!  The tag for photos from this conference is leweb307.
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World War II veterans who helped liberate Paris 60 years ago joined French President Jacques Chirac at a commemorative Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral.
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Paris' new memorial to the Holocaust was inaugurated Tuesday, with the French president bowing before the wall inscribed with the names of 76,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps from France.
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France marks the 100th day in captivity in Iraq of French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot.
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In Tehran Monday, tens of thousands celebrated the 29th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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Tens of thousands of Parisians have braved the summer rain to dance in the cityâs streets in a re-enactment of Parisâ liberation by French and US forces 60 years ago.