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Serbian authorities have for the first time removed from the Danube one of more than 200 shipwrecks which Nazi Germany's navy sank there in August 1944, Serbian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesić said on Wednesday. First, the minister said on Facebook, an investigation will be conducted to determine if there are any explosives still on board the wreck, after which it will be displayed to the public. Overall, Serbia intends to recover 21 of these wrecks from the Danube, he said. The project is funded by EU loans. During periods of low water levels in the River Danube due to su...
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An unexploded World War II bomb found near Tesla's large production plant in Grünheide to the east of Berlin was detonated in a controlled explosion on Saturday, Nico Bauermeister, the head of the local public order office told dpa. The cordon around the site had been lifted, and residents and workers in businesses in the area could now return, Bauermeister said. The 250 kilogram bomb was first reported by an ordnance removal service on Wednesday. Removal was ruled out as unsafe, and a decision was taken to detonate it. Several commercial areas in the vicinity were evacuated, including parts o...
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An unexploded World War II bomb found near Tesla's large production plant in Grünheide to the east of Berlin was detonated in a controlled explosion on Saturday, Nico Bauermeister, the head of the local public order office told dpa. The cordon around the site had been lifted, and residents and workers in businesses in the area could now return, Bauermeister said. The 250 kilogram bomb was first reported by an ordnance removal service on Wednesday. Removal was ruled out as unsafe, and a decision was taken to detonate it. Several commercial areas in the vicinity were evacuated, including parts o...
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An unexploded World War II bomb found near Tesla's large production plant in Grünheide to the east of Berlin was detonated in a controlled explosion on Saturday, Nico Bauermeister, the head of the local public order office told dpa. The cordon around the site had been lifted, and residents and workers in businesses in the area could now return, Bauermeister said. The 250 kilogram bomb was first reported by an ordnance removal service on Wednesday. Removal was ruled out as unsafe, and a decision was taken to detonate it. Several commercial areas in the vicinity were evacuated, including parts o...
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An unexploded aerial bomb from World War II retrieved from the Rhine River in Germany's Cologne on Wednesday evening was safely defused overnight on a ship positioned away from residential areas, city officials said. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. The British-made 5-tonne bomb had a rear-mounted fuse that was defused on board the ship, according to the Cologne city administration. The city said that there had ...
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An unexploded aerial bomb from World War II retrieved from the Rhine River in Germany's Cologne on Wednesday evening was safely defused overnight on a ship positioned away from residential areas, city officials said. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. The British-made 5-tonne bomb had a rear-mounted fuse that was defused on board the ship, according to the Cologne city administration. The city said that there had ...
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An unexploded aerial bomb from World War II retrieved from the Rhine River in Germany's Cologne on Wednesday evening was safely defused overnight on a ship positioned away from residential areas, city officials said. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. The British-made 5-tonne bomb had a rear-mounted fuse that was defused on board the ship, according to the Cologne city administration. The city said that there had ...
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Carentan (France) (AFP) - It might have been the longest wait but on Saturday 100-year-old American World War II veteran Harold Terens married his 96-year-old fiancee in Normandy, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in northwestern France. To the sounds of "I will always love you", "Ave Maria" and bagpipes, Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin said "I do" in the town of Carentan-les-Marais at a ceremony attended by dozens of guests, some wearing military uniforms. To top off an extraordinary day, the newly wedded couple then attended the state banqu...
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Caen (France) (AFP) - Hundred-year-old World War II veteran Harold Terens will marry his 96-year-old fiancee Saturday in the French town of Carentan-les-Marais, just days after being honoured on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that took place a few kilometres away. Terens's 11:00 am (0900 GMT) wedding to Jeanne Swerlin will be followed by a celebration "with his loved ones, in a small group", said Sarah Pasquier, the town hall's representative for D-Day commemorations. "We are very honoured that Mr. Terens has chosen to get married here, in Carentan, where in June 1944 the meeting o...
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With the dramatic Normandy coast at his back, US President Joe Biden said the US soldiers who fought their way onto the French beaches 80 years ago to combat the tyranny of German leader Adolf Hitler would expect their modern-day counterparts to do the same. "As we gather here today, it’s not just to honour those who showed such remarkable bravery that day June 6, 1944," Biden told those gathered for the sombre ceremony. "It’s to listen to the echo of their voices. To hear them. Because they are summoning us. They’re asking us what will we do." The soldiers storming those beaches who risked th...
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