Remembrance day News

A British Army veteran has had his welfare benefits cut for selling poppies for the Royal British Legion instead of looking for work.

Charlene White, a UK news anchor for ITV News, has received racist and sexist abuse from members of the public for her decision not to wear a Remembrance poppy on screen,

Paris - France’s President Hollande was heckled and booed by demonstrators, Monday, as his motorcade passed down the Champs-Elysées in Paris heading to France’s main Armistice Day commemoration at one of Paris’ major landmarks, the Arc de Triomphe.

Toronto - On the north lawn of Queen's Park in Toronto, hundreds gathered to pay tribute and honour Canada's forgotten men and women, who lost their lives fighting in the wars and many battles since World War I.

It may surprise Canadians, and other nationals, to learn that Canada does not have a National Remembrance Day. Most provinces in the country have a statutory holiday for the day but 3 do not and nationally there's no holiday.

Jerusalem - Israelis mark remembrance day with a ceremony on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, and Prime Minister Netanyahu shared his personal grief over a slain brother.

Jerusalem - Ahead of a service to honor victims of terrorism and fallen soldiers, a stage collapse kills a 20-year-old woman in Jerusalem and the incident is now under investigation.

Every year on November 11 many nations in the world pause to remember the horrors of the many past wars that their grandfathers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children have served through, and which took the lives of untold millions.

Across the villages, market towns and new towns across Hertfordshire several thousand people stopped to observe the memory of those who died since the cannons stopped firing and hostilities ended in 1918, the ending of World War I.

Toronto - Thousands gathered at Queen's Park to honour the millions who have sacrificed their lives to serve their country in the midst of war, international conflicts and peacekeeping missions. Ontario officials thanked the nation's veterans on Remembrance Day.