Donald Trump have toured the beaches of Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, hours after causing outrage in Ireland with his remarks about the country’s border with Northern Ireland.
“We have a border situation in the United States, and you have one over here,” the US president said during a meeting on Wednesday with Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister.
“But I hear it’s going to work out very well here,” Mr Trump, who is scheduled to return to Ireland after his France visit, continued.
In commenting about the historically contentious Irish border, Mr Trump appeared to be comparing the Brexit debate over Ireland and Northern Ireland with his attempts to curb immigration by building a wall on the US-Mexico border.
He is expected to give a speech while touring the beaches and will also visit a US military cemetery in the area.
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"We can turn that around very quickly but the sanctions have been extraordinary (in) how powerful they have been," he added.
"I understand they want to talk and that's fine, we'll talk. One thing they can't have is nuclear weapons."
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"I feel I know her so well and she certainly knows me very well right now, but we have a very good relationship also with the United Kingdom."
Seventy-five years ago Thursday, a battalion of elite US Army Rangers scaled the 100-foot promontory overlooking Omaha Beach, with nothing more than ropes and rickety ladders, writes Scott Higham.
As enemy gunfire and grenades rained down, picking them off as they climbed, the Rangers secured the strategic high ground and silence a small battery of long-range German guns that had been moved inland.
The battle for Pointe du Hoc became of one the most heroic moments of the D-Day invasion. It was lionized by the legendary Hollywood film “The Longest Day” and by President Ronald Reagan, who stood on this hallowed ground to deliver one of his most famous speeches, extolling the bravery of the “Boys of Pointe du Hoc” on the 40th anniversary of the largest amphibious assault in the world's history.
A series of Second World War landmarks including a group of sunken army tanks and training facilities for American soldiers are being granted protected status in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, writes Liam James.
The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy on D-Day was the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history and the new listings are all landmarks that were originally built to aid the offensive.
Among the listings are two tanks that were intended to support the invasion effort in June 1944.
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When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a bold invasion of Nazi-held territory that helped tip the balance of World War II – they were using a remarkable and entirely untested technology: artificial ports, writes Colin Flint.
