Mail Online
| 11/18/2018
| Connor Boyd For Mailonline
An imam was filmed reciting the Muslim call to prayer in a Church of England cathedral the night before Remembrance Day. He performed the call to worship in front of an audience of around 400 people...
I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day”—the armistice in question being that which stopped the shooting in the Great War.
(AFP) — President Donald Trump paid tribute to the “great warriors” who died in World War I as he visited a U.S. cemetery in France, a day after drawing fire for cancelling a similar trip due to bad...
wdtprs.com
| 11/11/2018
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Today is Armistice Day 2018, which makes it the 100th anniversary of cessation of fire on the Western Front, effectively leading to the formal end of the hideous WWI.
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed world leaders to the Elysee Palace on Sunday ahead of a commemoration at the Arc de Triomphe to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice...
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of people attended memorial services across Melbourne to mark the centenary of the Armistice ending World War One, shrugging off heightened security after...
Mail Online
| 11/11/1918
| Afp;Bryony Jewell For Mailonline
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel linked hands as they marked 100 years since their countries' reconciliation at the same forest clearing where the armistice...
Many Americans have no idea why we celebrate Veterans Day on November 11. Those who know that the holiday began as Armistice Day typically think of it as a day of victory and peace.
It was called “the war to end all wars.” Sadly, history tells another tale. Despite the World War I (WWI) deaths of 17 million soldiers, with the injury of 21 million more, the Imperial War Museum...
SOMME VALLEY, France (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May laid a wreath at a cemetery in Belgium and traveled to northern France on Friday to honor 700,000 British soldiers killed in World War One,...
Mail Online
| 9/4/1918
| Keiligh Baker for MailOnline
A 103-year-old veteran who was blinded during the Second World War will be the oldest to march at the Cenotaph as Britain marks the centenary of Armistice. Former Army sergeant Ron Freer, from Kent,...
Mail Online
| 11/2/2018
| Alexander Robertson For Mailonline
Police officers are set to patrol the streets in cars decorated in a shower of red poppies ahead of Armistice Day. Dorset Police's 'poppy car' will hit the roads around the county to demonstrate the...
Mail Online
| 9/24/2018
| Connor Boyd For Mailonline
An Ex-Army commander has warned against inviting the German president to the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. The Queen planned to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War alongside...
The nervous breakdown by the press following America's election of President Donald John Trump continues as reporters belittle the parade in Washington commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets Song Tao, the head of the China's Communist PartyÕs International Department who led a Chinese art troupe to North Korea for the April Spring Friendship Art...
Mail Online
| 11/22/2017
| Reuters;Mary Kekatos For Dailymail.com
North Korea is being accused of violating an armistice agreement after its soldiers fired across the line that divides North and South Korea while chasing after a defector.
(Reuters) – North Korea violated the armistice agreement as one of its soldiers crossed the Military Demarcation Line, the border between the two Koreas, chasing a soldier who defected to the South...
LONDON (AP) — People across Britain have paused for Armistice Day ceremonies to remember those killed in war. In streets, squares and railway stations, millions stopped for two minutes of silence...
Mail Online
| 6/15/2016
| Emma Glanfield for MailOnline
A High Court judge today begged a Laura Ashley boss and his beauty queen ex-wife to 'declare an armistice' after lawyers' bills for their long-running divorce settlement exceeded £6million.