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Poland marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II Monday with one eye on Russia, which invaded it during the war...
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Fearful of losing their culture and land, ethnic Maya people in Guatemala — who have faced centuries of discrimination themselves — drove out a...
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France returned the skull of a New Caledonian rebel chief on Thursday, 135 years after it was cut off in a battle between the...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent a message to a memorial service dedicated to World War II war criminals, organisers said Wednesday, in...
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President Francois Hollande led tributes to the French Resistance on Monday, as Paris celebrated the 70th anniversary of its joyful liberation after four long...
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The Baltic states on Saturday marked 25 years since two million people joined hands in a landmark human chain linking up their capitals to...
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During the darkest days of Chile’s dictatorship, a man named Jorge Schindler saved dozens of leftist militants by employing them undercover at his pharmacies,...
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President Francois Hollande leads ceremonies on Friday to mark 70 years since the Allied invasion of southern France which, two months after D-Day, pushed...
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French authorities will next month consider changing the name of a tiny hamlet near Paris which is officially known as La-Mort-aux-Juifs (“Death to Jews”)...
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From painter Paul Gauguin’s illness-ridden misadventure in the Central American rainforest to tugboat captain Eileen Vinueza’s purple nail polish and sneakers, working on the...