Hungarian official in Armenia to unveil monument to WWII soldiers
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Hungarian official in Armenia to unveil monument to WWII soldiers ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow 28 Aug 04 Yerevan, 28 August: In the Armenian capital Yerevan a monument to Armenian and Hungarian soldiers - ...
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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NATO defence ministers will hope to put recent public displays of disunity behind them when they meet in Vilnius on Thursday, following open US criticism of its allies' efforts in Afghanistan.
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Moscow plans to erect a new statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top city official said Wednesday.
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Poland will always remember Soviet soldiers who liberated Warsaw 60 years ago, Polish Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski told RIA Novosti in an interview on Monday.
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Armenia's parliament voted Friday to send 46 non-combat troops to Iraq, a move that was backed by President Robert Kocharian but drew sharp criticism from many Armenians and opposition groups.
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Milan central railway station's notorious Platform 21, which witnessed the deportation of hundreds of Jews in 1943-45, will host the city's first Holocaust memorial, local authorities said.
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Hungary&#39;s government will ask lawmakers to keep its 300 troops in Iraq for an extra three months before pulling them out by March 31, the country&#39;s new prime minister said Wednesday.
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Armenian, Polish defence ministers meet Polish Press Agency PAP News Wire September 6, 2004 Monday Warsaw, Sept.
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British diplomatic and church officials will attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Germany to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden.
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A ceremony is held in Berlin to mark the laying of the last of several thousand slabs as part of a memorial to Holocaust victims.
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A memorial to commemorate the victims of the London bombings is to be situated in Hyde Park.
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The Irish Republican Army has agreed to let two Catholic and Protestant church officials witness the outlawed group's next act of disarmament and describe it afterward, officials in the British and Irish governments indicated Tuesday.
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Large crowds in Hungary attend the state mourning ceremony as the nation buries legendary footballer Ferenc Puskas.
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Families of Israelis killed in last year's war in Lebanon held a memorial ceremony at the national military cemetery on Monday, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not attend, drawing harsh criticism.
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The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, lawyers said on Monday.
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.The eight white caskets were lowered into new ground at the Defense Forces cemetery in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, foreign diplomats and World War II veterans.'We have fulfilled our duty and given these soldiers their final resting place,' Aaviksoo said after the hour-long ceremony. He said he hoped the reburial would prevent Russia from using the war grave issue in the future 'for provocations against the Republic of Estonia.' Read more