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An international team of forensic experts on Wednesday exhumed the remains of 11 people killed by soldiers during the infamous El Mozote massacre in El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war.
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Den Haag -
Vandals spray-painted swastikas and slogans about the crash of flight MH17 on a British cemetery for World War II soldiers in the Netherlands, police said Friday.
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Berlin -
More than 15,000 people evacuated from their homes in the German city of Hanover were free to return early Tuesday after city officials said an unexploded World War II bomb had been defused.
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Hanoi -
The task of safeguarding the embalmed corpse of Vietnam's revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh is gruelling: carefully-selected riflemen work around the clock, watching over the communist nation's founding father who died 50 years ago Monday.
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Paris -
Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt.
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Apo -
Japan's wartime emperor Hirohito wanted to express his regret and remorse shortly after World War II but the prime minister at the time stopped him, local media reported Tuesday, citing newly disclosed documents.
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Paris -
Agence France-Presse was created in the tumult of World War II by a band of journalists who stormed a pro-Nazi newsroom and took over as Paris was in revolt.
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Chichester -
A vintage World War II Spitfire plane took off for an unprecedented journey around the world on Monday, which will see the iconic aircraft soar over some 30 countries.
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Chichester -
An original Spitfire plane took off from Britain on Monday on an unprecedented attempt to fly the iconic World War II fighter around the globe.
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Port Moresby -
At least 24 people, including two pregnant women and their unborn children, were killed in a three-day spasm of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea's lawless highlands, prompting the prime minister on Wednesday to promise swift justice.
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Port Moresby -
Twenty-four people have died -- including two pregnant women with their unborn children -- in tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea's lawless highlands, prompting the prime minister on Wednesday to promise swift justice.
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Pristina -
With celebratory speeches, a new statue and a visit from former US president Bill Clinton, Kosovo will on Wednesday mark 20 years since the NATO intervention that ended its war with Serbia and cleared a path for independence.
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Paris -
The French government said on Wednesday it had launched a project to return cultural artefacts stolen from Jews in World War II.
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Three quarters of a century ago, they came to Normandy's beaches as young men, many still in their teens, braving German fire to free France from Nazi occupation and help win the war in Europe.
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Montr -
John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week in pajamas in 1969 at The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, welcoming journalists and recording "Give Peace a Chance" as the Vietnam War raged.
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Lynchburg -
Bill Sisk was 17 years old when he stormed Utah Beach in Normandy on D-Day and 18 when he witnessed firsthand the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, but the former GI wouldn't call himself a hero."I was too young.
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Madrid -
Spain on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the 1936-39 civil war which ushered in the dictatorship of Francisco Franco with the country still divided over the issue.
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Prague -
Lebanon said on Wednesday it wanted to follow the example of eastern EU states that have largely rejected refuging its own refugee crisis as a way of resolvs.
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Srebrenica -
Widows of the Srebrenica massacre hope he will die in prison, while Bosnian Serbs have honoured Radovan Karadzic with a university dorm in his name.
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Tuzla -
Survivors of Bosnia's Srebrenica massacre said Monday they hoped a UN court would sentence convicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic to life in jail when he receives his final verdict next week.
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Washington -
Washington and Beijing are "miles and miles" from resolving their trade war, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday.
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Sarajevo -
Thousands of Bosnian Serbs cheered parading security forces in celebration of the "national holiday" of their entity, Republika Srpska, on Wednesday, despite a legal ban and objections of Bosnian Muslims who view it as a provocation.
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Port Moresby -
Tribes in Papua New Guinea's rough and rugged highlands have fought each other for centuries, but a recent influx of automatic weapons risks turning minor beefs into all-out war.
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New Delhi -
India, Australia and New Zealand paused Sunday on the centenary of the end of World War I to remember the more than 150,000 of their countrymen who died fighting on the other side of the world.
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Berlin -
So many momentous events happened in Germany on November 9 during the 20th century that it has become known as the country's "day of fate".
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Berlin -
So many momentous events happened in Germany on November 9 during the 20th century that it has become known as the country's "day of fate".
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Zagreb -
Croatia's former premier Ivo Sanader was convicted on Monday of war profiteering, in a re-trial that found him guilty of taking a bribe from an Austrian bank during the country's 1990s conflict.
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London -
A biopic of war correspondent Marie Colvin, who died in Syria in 2012, is a celebration of journalism as it increasingly comes "under attack", according to the film-makers.
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Oslo -
Norwegian World War II hero Joachim Ronneberg, who led a major sabotage operation against the Nazis in his occupied homeland, died on Sunday, aged 99.
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Paris -
More than 60 world leaders, including US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, will travel to Paris next month for commemorations of the end of World War I a century ago, French officials said Thursday.
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Elk Grove High School's drill team rounds the corner at the start of the parade.
Afghan man receives treatment from a U.S. Navy corpsman after being injured in a grenade attack U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Simon Lee
A front view of Honewell's AIDC F-CK Indigenous Defence Fighter, which is powered by the afterburning F125 engine 王常松 Chang-Song Wang
Libyan rebels socialistrevolution.org
An image showing the effects of PTSD on soldiers Lance Page / Truthout.org
A recreated communications office at the RAF museum, Hendon.
The European Parliament File photo
Two Israeli F-16 flying on the Negev Canyon near the city of Mitzpe Ramon in South of Israel.
AMISOM troops look out over the Somali capital, Mogadishu. IRIN IRIN Photo
U.S. Marine Corps combat photographer in Afghanistan takes cover as CH-53 helicopter lands U.S Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jeremy Harris
Turkish warplane taking off Reuters video capture
A screengrab of an e-petition created by a lunatic intent on starting World War III.
The Korean War exhibit at the SAAF Musuem near Pretoria.
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