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Croatia has celebrated the 29th anniversary of a key military offensive which marked a turning point for the country in the Bosnian War. Operation 'Storm' offensive took place in 1995 and triggered the exodus of hundreds of thousands of people after Croatian troops reclaimed territory from rebel Serb forces. This year the anniversary was celebrated in the city of Knin with speeches from Croatia's leaders, military parades and a flyover of Rafale fighter jets recently acquired from France. “We are gathered here today to once again celebrate freedom. To remember the magnificent “Storm”. To remin...
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By Etienne TORBEY Nicosie (AFP) - La perspective d'une réunification de Chypre paraît encore lointaine, les Chypriotes grecs et la Turquie campant samedi sur leurs positions, 50 ans après l'invasion de l'île méditerranéenne par la Turquie. Les Chypriotes n'ont "pas d'autre option" que la réunification de leur pays, a affirmé le président chypriote Nikos Christodoulides, après des cérémonies de commémoration à Nicosie, dernière capitale divisée au monde, promettant de "faire tout ce qui est possible pour libérer et réunifier" l'île. S'exprimant dans la partie nord de Nicosie, sous contrôle turc...
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Fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year and the Royal Mail is celebrating by unveiling a set of 14 stamps, featuring monsters and characters from D&D. The tabletop role-playing game, first published in 1974, allows an estimated 64 million fans worldwide to embark on player-driven adventures with friends. Fourteen special stamps are part of the collection, depicting the game’s most famous monsters and heroes. All of the artwork was illustrated by British artist Wayne Reynolds and features 11 images commissioned for the set. David Gold, director of external affairs and policy at Royal...
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Whether it’s being a president, an astronaut, a fashionista or a doctor, Barbie has done it all. A new exhibition celebrating the iconic doll's 65th anniversary will open at London's Design Museum on Friday 5 July for a seven-month run. The show presents 250 objects from Barbie's world, including 180 dolls spanning seven decades - and Ken and friends also make an appearance. "From the perspective of the Design Museum, what we really wanted to do is to look at Barbie through a design lens," explained the show's curator Danielle Thom. "[What] a lot of people don't know is how these dolls come in...
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To mark the celebrations of his 10 years of reign, King Felipe VI appeared on the balcony of the Royal Palace of Madrid, accompanied by Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor, and Infanta Sofía on Wednesday. A decade ago, Felipe VI ascended to the throne following the turbulent abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I, due to numerous public and private scandals. Since then, the monarch has focused his efforts on renewing the monarchy and restoring its transparency and integrity. "He is a good person and what happened, happened. And I would like the family to be left alone," expressed a woman in the cr...
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Crowds gathered to watch the recreation of the D-days landings on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the event.
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Europe is preparing to mark 80 years since D-Day with a week of commemorations and ceremonies. On Tuesday, two French Navy landing craft arrived at Omaha Beach for an assault rehearsal involving dozens of volunteers. They were joined by US Army vintage Harley Davidson motorbikes in a large parade across the Normandy landing beaches. On the other side of the Channel, the sea and skies around the English city of Portsmouth were buzzing with ships and planes as British veterans left the coast of the UK, heading to France. The veterans will take part in parades, school visits and other ceremonies ...
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Irving (United States) (AFP) - It was shot quickly on a limited budget with unknown actors wearing the same sweat-soaked outfits for weeks on end. So if "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" had disappeared without a trace, not many people would have been surprised. Instead, it's celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, a half-century in which it has been the benchmark for a subgenre of horror -- the slasher movie. "There's no corner of the earth that you can go to and say the 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' title and not have somebody know what you're talking about, whether they've seen the movie or not...
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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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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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