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Auschwitz survivors mark 70 years since Nazi death camp liberated

Poland

Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Memories produce warnings for a modern world

Auschwitz’s last survivors urged the world not to forget the horrors of the Holocaust as they marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s

Poland

Auschwitz survivors 70 years on plead for 'our children's future'

At the Gate of Death, survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have marked 70 years since their liberation from the Nazi German extermination camp in Poland

Poland

Auschwitz liberation 70 years on, mourning of millions

Auschwitz was liberated 70 years ago, today, by the advancing Soviet Red Army. For the 70th commemoration, former prisoners laid flowers at the Death

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Poland

Auschwitz liberation a Soviet pause in sweep to crush Hitler

When he was 21, Ivan Martynushkin was a lieutenant in the Soviet Red Army, commanding a machine-gun unit. By the start of 1945 they had walked

Poland

Holocaust survivors tell the world what happened in Auschwitz

Survivors of the Holocaust visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Monday (January 26), one day ahead of ceremonies marking the 70th

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US President Obama takes part in India's annual Republic Day festivities

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At least 17 dead in protests on Egypt uprising anniversary

Poland

Auschwitz and other survivors who were 'freed but never free'

Survivors of Auschwitz Birkenau, the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp, are fewer every year… fewer to bear witness to what was done

Poland

France delegation visits former Nazi camp in Auschwitz

A French delegation led by Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and prominent French businessman Baron Eric de Rothschild visited Auschwitz on Sunday ahead of

Egypt

Egypt: Protests to mark 2011 uprising anniversary turn deadly

Several protesters were killed during bloody protests to mark the 2011 uprising

Turkey

Thousands march for journalist Dink murder anniversary

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Istanbul to commemorate the death of journalist Hrant Dink, eight years ago. The prominent ethnic

Haiti

Haiti's dead are remembered five years after devastating earthquake

Haiti's President Martelly along with survivors pay tribute to the victims of the 2010 earthquake which left at least 300,000 people dead.

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Elvis would be 80 today.

He would have been 80 today. The King was born on the 8th of January 1935. Elvis Presley began his music career in 1954, with the legendary Sun

USA

New Yorkers say good riddance to bad memories of 2014

Based on a Latin American tradition, a special day has been created where people can eliminate negativity from their lives. Good Riddance Day gave

Indonesia

Indonesia remembers victims in Aceh, area worst hit by 2004 tsunami

Memorial services have been held around the Indian Ocean to remember the victims on the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Indonesia

Tsunami-hit countries remember the dead 10 years on

Memorial services are taking place to remember thousands of people who were killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Hit by a 10-metre wave, Indonesia’s

Indonesia

A decade since the Indian Ocean tsunami

December the 26th, 2014, marks the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the deaths of over 230,000 people.

Indonesia

Ten years on: Indonesia remembers the tsunami

Ten years on from the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean killing more than 230,000 people, special services have begun in the region to

Romania

Romania marks the anniversary of the 1989 Revolution that toppled Nicolae Ceaușescu

Romania is marking the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Revolution that toppled the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu and brought an end to 42 years of