In France, D-Day evokes both the joys of liberation and the pain of Normandy’s 20,000 civilian dead

CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Shortly after D-Day in 1944, the American soldiers heading out to more fighting against Adolf Hitler’s forces couldn’t help but notice the hungry French boy by the…

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Silence and heavy security in China and Hong Kong mark 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing’s Tiananmen Square had checkpoints and police vehicles Tuesday as China tried to silence the 35th anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong police arrested four people and…

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