Commemoration

25/04/2013 - France - Australia

Australia's Bob Carr remembers First World War dead in northern France

Thousands of Australians made a pilgrimage to the killing fields of World War I on Thursday to honour those who lost their lives on the Western Front.

14/06/2012 - France - Afghanistan

Hollande, Sarkozy pay tribute to slain French soldiers ahead of Afghan withdrawal

French President François Hollande and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy attended a ceremony to honour the four French soldiers killed in Afghanistan last weekend at Paris’s Les ...

06/06/2012 - Report: Israel - Palestinian territories

West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem mark Arab defeat in Six-Day War

Protests across the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem marked “Naksa Day” Tuesday, commemorating the displacement of Palestinians that occurred after Israel’s victory in the 1967 ...

12/12/2011 - France - Laos

French ex-colonel's suicide over plight of Hmongs

A retired French colonel killed himself at a memorial to the war in South East Asia, in protest against what he called official indifference to the treatment of the Hmong minority, French police ...

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11/11/2011 - France

18/06/2010 - France - UK

Sarkozy in London for WWII appeal anniversary

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has arrived in London Friday morning to mark the 70th birthday of Charles de Gaulle’s rousing radio appeal to his compatriots to fight the Nazi occupation

Australia's Bob Carr remembers First World War dead in northern France

Hollande, Sarkozy pay tribute to slain French soldiers ahead of Afghan withdrawal

West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem mark Arab defeat in Six-Day War

French ex-colonel's suicide over plight of Hmongs

France to honour colonial war dead with world war victims, Sarkozy says

Remembering the fallen

French victory commemoration sparks Mauritius debate

Sarkozy in London for WWII appeal anniversary