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Watch: UK PM May reads D-Day soldier's moving letter to family

Captain Skinner was one of the hundreds of thousands of troops to cross the Channel on D-Day. He died on June 7, 1944.

France

World leaders honour veterans on D-Day's 75th anniversary

Emotions ran high as world leaders commemorated D-Day in a ceremony marking 75 years since the invasion of Normandy.

United Kingdom

Meet the D-Day survivor hoping to top Ed Sheeran in the UK charts

The youngest-known participant of the allied invasion at just 15 years old, Jim Radford has now unexpectedly found fame summiting the UK music charts.

World News

'First US flag planted at Omaha Beach' goes up for auction

Online bidding has already reached $55,000 (€49,000).

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United Kingdom

Euroviews. Ballad of a D-Day Dodger ǀ View

“I’m not bitter about the D-Day celebrations at all,” said Ivor Gaskill. “I just wish they’d give us the same recognition because if hadn’t been for us there probably wouldn’t have been a D-Day, at least not on 6 June.”

USA

Watch: D-Day plane saved from scrap returns to Europe for anniversary

The C-47 had a lucky escape after being found in a restoration yard in Wisconsin. It would have been stripped for parts had its tail number not been checked.

United Kingdom

Watch: UK bomb disposal experts detonate WWII mine at sea

A fishing vessel reported catching the two-metre-long wartime sea mine in its nets on Saturday.

Germany

The 'candy bombers' who gave a besieged city hope

It was the first crisis of the Cold War. But the airlift that saved Berlin 70 years ago still resonates among Germans - and helped cement friendship between former enemies.

Poland

Polish far-right protests against restitution of Jewish property

Polish far-right supporters protested against a US law that calls for the restitution of Jewish property.

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Russia shows off military might at Victory Day parade

Russian troops celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.

Poland

Thousands take part in March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew led thousands in annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau to honour Holocaust victims

Poland

Thousands march in Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

The annual March of the Living event commemorates the victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

Netherlands

Dutch queen tried to swap Nazis for Belgian king

Queen Wilhelmina asked her foreign minister in 1945 to "sound out" if a deal was possible, according to a report based on a newly-released book of her former foreign minister's diaries.

United Kingdom

Watch: Art installation on UK beach marks little-known WWII attack

The US 4th Infantry Division lost 749 men in the attack, four times as many as they did on D-Day.

World News

'Ghost Army' veterans recall secret World War Two mission

Veterans of the secret ‘Ghost Army’ tasked with deceiving Nazi forces with decoy tanks have been recalling their extraordinary role in World War Two.

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UK beach art commemorates US troops in WW2 tragedy

Art installation commemorates US troops in 75th anniversary of Devon war tragedy

Luxembourg

Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Jean dies aged 98

During his 36 years as Grand Duke, his country of half a million inhabitants wedged in between Belgium, Germany and France, turned from an industrial backwater into an international financial hub.

Poland

Polish town slammed over 'atrocious revival of medieval anti-Semitism'

A town in Poland has been criticised after locals beat and burned a Judas effigy that was made to look like a stereotypical Orthodox Jew.

Greece

Greece parliament demand Germany pay WWII reparations

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said demanding reparations is "a historic and moral duty and a duty in memory of the heroes of the past."

Germany

Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt

It created a massive underwater blast when the police defused it.