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An assailant entered an elderly care home in the central Croatian town of Daruvar, killing at least four people, authorities said. Police said they were informed after 10 am Monday that a man using firearms killed and wounded several people at the nursing home. The suspect fled the scene, but the police soon caught him in a cafe in downtown Daruvar. "The person suspected for the crime has been apprehended," the Bjelovar-Bilogora County Police said in a statement. The number of those killed might be at least five, domestic outlets claim. Another seven have been wounded in the shooting, of which...
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Whitstable (United Kingdom) (AFP) - John Roberts was a 20-year-old British Royal Navy officer during the D-Day landings 80 years ago and remembers making light of the daring mission at the time. The former sub-lieutenant was aboard the destroyer HMS Serapis during the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, protecting minesweepers during the crossing of the Channel. "I have a letter now that I wrote to my mother at that time and I said, 'It's all good fun'," Roberts, now aged 100 and one of Britain's few remaining D-Day veterans, told AFP. "I had just had my 20th birthday and at that age, ...
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Parachutists jumped from World War II-era planes on Sunday into the skies above Normandy in France where war once raged. The reason? To kick off a week of ceremonies to commemorate the sacrifices made for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops who fought from D-Day beaches 80 years ago during that war. On 6 June 1944, soldiers from across the United States, the UK, Canada and other Allied nations from Europe and the wider world waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches. These former soldiers are now dwindling in numbers, with the youngest in his mid-90s and many others over...
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Washington (AFP) - A US paratrooper who participated in the 1944 D-Day invasion, and lived to reenact the famed World War II landing 75 years later, has died aged 101, his unit -- the 101st Airborne Division -- announced Thursday. "Today we say farewell to a 101st Airborne Legend, Tom Rice," tweeted the US Army division. In the night of June 5, 1944, Rice strapped himself with 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of weapons and supplies and joined his 9,000 comrades on a nighttime flight across the English Channel into Nazi-occupied Normandy. His paratrooper division was tasked with securing the muddy ro...
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Buda-Babynetska (Ukraine) (AFP) - Just before he left New York for the war in Ukraine, American Vietnam veteran Steven Straub had the country's blue and yellow flag tattooed on his arm along with the words "free Ukraine". The 73-year-old arrived in Ukraine in the middle of last month as Russian forces were encircling major cities and closing in on the capital Kyiv. The retired maintenance worker from Florida has been undergoing intensive training with the Ukraine national guard in Kyiv since. On a recent day off, he was the guest of honour on a Ukrainian military tour of several villages outsi...
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