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College Park (United States) (AFP) - Seated side by side behind an antiquated viewer, the sisters run and rerun the 35 mm black-and-white film reel, whispering to each other about the images captured by their father, the only cameraman on Omaha Beach on D-Day. In the footage taken on June 6, 1944 in northern France, a handful of US soldiers advance on shore. One falls to the ground, a victim of German bullets. And even though he suffered a wound to his left arm, Sergeant Richard Taylor kept filming. Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Allied beach landings in Normandy, Taylor's daughters are ...
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The National Gallery is kicking off its 200th anniversary today (10 May) by launching a year-long commemorative programme. Located in London’s Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery, which is free to attend, attracted over 3 million visitors in 2023. The imperious neoclassical building was completed in 1838, having been commissioned to house a burgeoning national collection of artworks set in motion with parliament’s decision to purchase banker John Julius Angerstein’s private collection of pictures in 1824. Rediscovered Caravaggio masterpiece to go on show at Madrid's Museo del Prado200 years...
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Carol Stream (United States) (AFP) - Richard Rung recalls it vividly: German artillery firing on his landing craft, the sound of machine gun bullets striking the vessel, blood mixed with seawater on the deck, troops crying on the beach. It has been nearly eight decades since Rung landed in France on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- as a 19-year-old US Navy sailor, part of a massive amphibious invasion that broke through German coastal defenses in a key victory for Allied forces. He now lives in a suburb of Chicago with Dorothy, his wife of 75 years, but his memories of the violence and death he witnes...
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The EU put on a colourful display to celebrate Wednesday's 20th anniversary of the biggest enlargement in its history, known as the "Big Bang". The buildings of the European Commission in Brussels, the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the EU building in Luxembourg all lit up in blue and yellow, projecting the slogan "20 Years Together". Ten new countries joined the bloc on 1 May 2004. Almost all of them were from eastern Europe. The integration of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia brought the number of member states from 15 t...
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If the centenary is an appropriate anniversary for assessing a book’s staying power, then it’s probably about time to acknowledge that Graham Greene was wrong. The "Brighton Rock" author made the rookie mistake of trying to look through the mists of time when he declared: “There is no novelist of [the 20th century] more likely to live than Ford Madox Ford.” But if, 100 years after its first volume was published in April 1924, you went searching for a copy of "Parade’s End" in your local bookshop, you might find yourself more unlucky than if you were looking for, say, a paperback of Greene’s "T...
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Séoul (AFP) - La Corée du Sud commémore mardi le naufrage d'un ferry surchargé survenu il y a dix ans, une tragédie dans laquelle des centaines de lycéens en sortie scolaire ont péri. Un navire des garde-côtes a conduit en mer, mardi matin, des familles de victimes sur le site du naufrage marqué par une bouée jaune. Durant cette cérémonie, elles ont égrené les noms des victimes de la tragédie, jeté des fleurs dans l'eau, avant de respecter une minute de silence. Park Jeong-hwa a perdu sa fille dans le naufrage du ferry Sewol survenu le 16 avril 2014, qui reliait le port d'Incheon près de Séoul...
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By Hailey JO Séoul (AFP) - Il y a dix ans, un ferry sud-coréen surchargé chavirait au large du pays, avant de sombrer. Des centaines de lycéens en sortie scolaire ont péri dans cette tragédie, obéissant à l'ordre de rester dans leurs cabines pendant que le capitaine quittait le navire. Le naufrage du ferry Sewol, qui reliait le port d'Incheon près de Séoul à l'île méridionale de Jeju, avait fait 304 morts le 16 avril 2014, dont 250 lycéens d'un même établissement. L'accident et le fiasco des opérations de sauvetage avaient provoqué un traumatisme national et une gigantesque vague de colère en ...
AFP (Français)
It was the beginning of a beautiful - if complicated - friendship. 120 years ago today, the United Kingdom and French Republic signed a series of agreements aimed at resolving conflicts between the two nations and strengthening their alliance in the face of an increasingly powerful German military. It's become a pivotal moment in European history, not only redefining the relationship between two of the world's most powerful countries, but also key to shaping the continent's political landscape throughout the 20th century. British and French troops paid tribute on the anniversary by taking part...
Euronews (English)
By Ammu KANNAMPILLY Kigali (AFP) - "Aujourd'hui, c'est une mauvaise journée pour tous les Rwandais". Ernestine Mukambarushimana a 30 ans, l'âge du génocide et avec des milliers d'autres, elle attend le début de la veillée nocturne en hommage aux victimes des massacres, une bougie à la main. La semaine de commémoration, qui débute dimanche, lui fait du bien. "Je ne suis pas seule", dit-elle. Trente ans après les 100 jours qui ont fait 800.000 morts, majoritairement dans la minorité tutsi, ils étaient des milliers à la BK Arena, salle polyvalente ultra-moderne de 10.000 sièges, à se recueillir, ...
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ジュエリーブランド「Canal 4℃」から、ブランド15周年を祝し、Canal 4℃の由来である“運...
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