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Refugees sent to Rwanda from remote UK island speak to BBC
BBC via Yahoo News· 8 minutes agoThe group - all Sri Lankan Tamils - were transferred to Rwanda for urgent medical care after suicide...
Rochester WWII veteran Robert Persichitti dies at 102 on way to D-Day ceremony in France
Gannett via AOL· 3 hours agoStewart said Persichitti flew to Europe and joined other veterans on a ship sailing toward Normandy,...
Polish soldier dies days after being stabbed by migrant at border with Belarus
Fox News· 1 day agoA soldier stabbed last month at the Poland-Belarus border has died, according to Poland's military....
EU soldier dies after clash with migrants on Belarus border
Daily Express· 2 hours agoPoland is mourning a 22-year-old soldier who has tragically died after he was stabbed in the chest...
The Grand Palais Is Set to Reopen in Time for the Olympics
Conde Nast Traveler via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDuring World War I, the Nave under that glass roof was converted into a military hospital with a...
State & Union: Stories of area men and D-Day, 80 years ago today
Olean Times Herald· 1 day agoEighty years ago today, LaVerne Carlson of Olean spent the morning fighting his way onto Omaha Beach...
Dorset: Forgotten history of D-Day hospital
BBC News· 1 day agoThe story of a how a huge military hospital took shape in the grounds of a country house in Dorset has been largely forgotten. The hospital was built in...
For the First French Town Liberated on D-Day, History Is Personal
New York Times· 11 hours agoIs this really France? “This is the 53rd state,” Philippe Nekrassoff, a local deputy mayor, said as...
At 102, a WWII veteran died on his way to Normandy to commemorate D-Day
Washington Post· 13 hours agoNearly 80 years after Bob Persichitti watched the flag raised atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima, the 102-year-old Navy veteran was headed to Normandy to commemorate another ...
Phoenix using ice immersion to treat heat stroke victims as Southwest bakes in triple digits
WFMJ Youngstown· 2 days agoBy ANITA SNOW Associated Press
