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Associated Press French President Francois Holland (right) and British Defense Ministry Philippe Hammond (left) take part a ceremony commemorating the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France began in 1944, on Wednesday in the British war cemetery of Ranville, western France.
Statue marks D-Day anniversary
SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France — With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy’s Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronze statue emerged from beneath a camouflage parachute,...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II holds a bouquet of flowers as she returns to Buckingham Palace after attending a service of thanksgiving and a lunch in honour of the Diamond Jubilee in London,Tuesday June 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Carl Cort, Pool)
After jubilee success, monarchy faces future
LONDON — There were six figures on the balcony, three generations of royalty — and one large absence. Queen Elizabeth II’s appearance at Buckingham Palace with her family on Tuesday capped a tri...
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Al-Qaida No. 2 dies in drone strike in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan has killed al-Qaida’s second-in-command, officials from both countries confirmed Tuesday, the most significant victory so far in the ...
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Black bear euthanized after eating Canada murderer
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian conservation officers have euthanized a black bear that ate the remains of a convicted murderer. British Columbia Environment Minister Terry Lake said Mond...
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Associated Press Workers watch as the tail of a crashed commercial airplane is lifted by a crane Monday in Lagos, Nigeria. Emergency workers in Nigeria used cadaver dogs and cranes to search for corpses Monday at the site where an airliner plunged to earth, killing all 153 aboard. Rescue officials said they fear many more people may have perished on the ground in the crash Sunday.
Grim search continues for dead after Nigerian plane crash
LAGOS, Nigeria — Emergency crews wearing masks to protect them from the acrid smoke and the stench of the dead searched for bodies in a smoldering, shattered neighborhood near the Lagos airport Mon...
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Canadian body parts suspect arrested in Berlin
BERLIN — A Canadian porn actor suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student and mailing his body parts to Canada’s top political parties was reading about himself on the Internet when ...
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Associated Press U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (left) meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the Government House on Monday in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Hanoi opens MIA search areas, releases letters
HANOI, Vietnam — “If Dad calls, tell him I got too close to being dead but I’m O.K. I was real lucky. I’ll write again soon.” That poignant message never reached the mother of Army Sgt. Steve Fl...
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Panetta sends message to China
CAM RANH BAY, Vietnam — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta used a visit Sunday to Vietnam to make clear Washington’s intent to aid allies in the Asia-Pacific region develop and enforce maritime ri...
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Victims of Egypt’s regime still await justice
CAIRO — Tied to a bed, Nasr al-Sayed Hassan Nasr was tortured for days with electric shocks during his 2010 detention for membership in the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood — one of tens of thousands of...
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Clinton steps up pressure on Russia
by BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press STOCKHOLM — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday pressed Russia to join international efforts for a political transition in Syria that ...
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