Paris Turns Back Clock to Mark Liberation
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With French and American flags, vintage military vehicles and heartfelt memories, Paris on Wednesday marked the 60th anniversary of its liberation from the occupying Nazis &#151; the day the French capital recovered its honor after four years of hardship and shame.
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The Paris city government has promised a plan aimed at stopping the âbanalizationâ of the Champs-ÃlysÃ©es.
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Events marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi troops were held in the Polish capital on Monday.
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PARIS: The Islamic Army in Iraq has given France 48 hours to revoke the controversial ban. As French leaders scrambled to strategy meetings on Sunday morning, it seemed unlikely they would revoke the ban which has wide support among French voters.
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It was 60 years ago today, in Paris. I had been waiting a long time for this moment, when I would finally see the enemy in defeat.
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When the clock springs forward on March 11, older electronics with embedded systems programmed to reset the time under the old daylight-saving time rules will likely have to be manually reset. And older operating systems will likely need patches.
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France -- Under an overcast sky not unlike the morning 63 years ago when Allied forces stormed the Norman dy beaches below, US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday pointed to their sacrifice to argue that the United States and France have long worked together to defeat tyranny and now must do so again.
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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PARIS  - Two French journalists freed in Iraq headed for home and a rapturous welcome at the end of a four-month hostage ordeal as the government in Paris insisted no ransom was paid to secure their freedom.
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Parisians celebrated Wednesday in music and dance for the 60th anniversary of Paris&#39; liberation from Nazi occupation. Hundreds of thousands people watched the parades of two French
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PARIS - Two French journalists freed after being held captive in Iraq arrived in Paris Wednesday, saying they never lost hope during their four-month ordeal.
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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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France's emblematic left-wing daily Liberation, crippled by falling reader numbers and mounting losses, may be forced to shed up to a third of its workforce as part of a last-ditch rescue plan to be unveiled on Wednesday.
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The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin's new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.
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Last Wednesday, on the the eve of Armistice Day, President Jacques Chirac presided over a moving ceremony in Les Invalides, the hospice-cum-church-cum-museum in central Paris which is the French militarys ...
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PARIS French officials may have found a way to both abide by their own privacy laws and still respond to demands by Palestinian leaders to answer questions about Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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For France, those were the days. The French aren't pining for the return of their 19th-century empire, but the 200th anniversary Thursday of Napoleon Bonaparte's crowning as emperor is a reminder of their country's former glory.