Briefs: Armistice Day marked by somber ceremonies
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PARIS In somber ceremonies on Thursday, world leaders and war veterans paid tribute to their war dead on the anniversary of the end of World War I. Armistice Day commemorations are held on the eleventh hour
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The makeshift memorials of flowers, candles and children's drawings are gone. So are the black ribbons that hung from balconies and windows as symbols of mourning from one hellish day.
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NEW YORK -- At the sad tolling of bells and a rabbi's hopeful reading, President Bush and a sea of firefighters and police officers silently bowed their heads Monday to mark the moments five years ago when terrorists pierced the nation's defenses.
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The somber official end to mourning for Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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On this cold and drizzly day, the mood here has been very sombre indeed. Just before three in the morning, the remains of six Swedish tourists killed in the tsunami arrived at Arlanda airport outside Stockholm.
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SERVICEMEN and women who gave their lives fighting for their country were remembered at Armistice Day parades in High Wycombe yesterday.
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TO THE British, it was a war cemetery. To the villagers of Stahnsdorf in the former East Germany, its annual Remembrance Day service was their window to freedom.
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Bereaved family members and survivors will be at the service A service remembering Britons killed or injured in terrorist attacks abroad last year is to be held in London.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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President Bush told U.S. troops on  Tuesday that "much more will be asked of you" in Iraq and  elsewhere as three days of ceremonies marking his inauguration  got off to a somber beginning.
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The military community here has grown accustomed to burying its soldiers, but the funerals this week are taking an especially heavy toll.
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New mood in Tokyo to sanitise one of war's darkest episodes.
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh has led millions of Britons in observing a two-minute silence on Armistice Day to remember those who have died in war.
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The traditional party of the year will  be a somber affair across the globe.
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Queen Elizabeth II led ceremonies nationwide to remember the dead of World War I, World War II and other wars, as historians rush to record the memories of a fast dwindling group of old soldiers.
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A somber President Bush said on Tuesday U.S. troops killed in a deadly attack in northern Iraq were on a mission of peace as the heavy death toll presented him with a fresh challenge amid dwindling U.S. support for the war.
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It was a day of jubilation &#151; World War II seemed almost over. But before night fell, joy gave way to terror.