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French city asks Madonna for loan of painting lost during WWI

The mayor of Amiens in northern France has released a video requesting that American pop singer Madonna "loan" the city a painting from her personal collection, which resembles one lost there during World War I.

Radio France Internationale

A resurgence of alliances is an echo of past wars

Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.

Bangkok Post

Like a Prayer: Amiens asks Madonna to loan painting

The mayor of Amiens, in northern France, has asked Madonna to lend the city a 19th-century canvas named "Diana and Endymion" by Jérôme-Martin Langlois. It was once on display in an Amiens museum, but the artwork was lost after the city was bombed during World War I. It's believed that…

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'All Quiet on the Western Front' leads race for BAFTA awards

Visceral World War I drama “All Quiet on the Western Front” has a field-leading 14 nominations for the British Academy Film Awards

The Independent UK

Sister Andre obituary: World’s oldest person dies aged 118 after surviving two pandemics

Nun Lucile Randon lived through two world wars and 18 French presidents - and worked until she was 108

The Independent UK

‘Tirailleurs’: France’s forgotten colonial soldiers step out of the shadows

The last surviving African soldiers who fought for colonial-era France will be able to live out their final days in their home countries following the French government's U-turn on their pension rights. The decision coincides with the cinema release of a film highlighting the untold sacrifices made by African “tirailleurs”…

France 24

The House last struggled to elect a speaker 100 years ago. Here's what happened

Both Kevin McCarthy and the nominee for speaker a century ago represented a party establishment regarded with hostility by a potent faction of the party. They became the embodiment of its grievances.

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African soldiers: France's forgotten war heroes finally given full pension rights

Thousands of African troops fought bravely in World War I and World War II, as well as in France's colonial wars, but many remain unaware of their sacrifice. There are just 39 Senegalese tirailleurs, or sharpshooters, alive today. They only gained French nationality in 2016, which gave them the right…

France 24

No One Would Win a Long War in Ukraine

The West must avoid the mistakes of World War I.

Foreign Affairs

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to hold the line in Bakhmut

Ukrainian troops are preparing to hold the line in eastern Bakhmut using trench warfare tactics reminiscent of World War I. FRANCE 24 speaks with those fortifying positions around the city.

France 24

Julius Hirsch: The German ‘national hero’ killed by the Nazis

Only the second Jew to play for Germany, Hirsch broke records and fought in WWI for a country that would kill him.

Al Jazeera

Controversy After Statue Of US Trained Preacher Unveiled In London

Malawian Rebel And US Trained Preacher Immortalized In London Statue

Zenger

Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to heirs

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust

The Independent UK

Edinburgh car thief staged six-hour stand-off with cops after stealing motors worth £213k

Skachill gained the nickname Red Baron – derived from the German World War I flying ace – due to his notorious reputation as a teenage car and motorbike thief.

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The Independent UK

Bio of Polish statesman holds lessons on today's Ukraine

Just over a century ago, a revolutionary Polish patriot argued that Russia's hunger for territory would continue to roil Europe unless Ukraine could be separated from Moscow

Bangkok Post

Lessons for humanity

The classic novel All Quiet On The Western Front by German author Erich Maria Remarque documents the brutality of World War I. Those who live in the US are perhaps more familiar with this story as the book is usually required reading as part of high school and university curriculums.…

Newsroom.co.nz

Ukraine war a testing ground

War has always been the ultimate testing ground for technology and tactics. Russia's war in Ukraine will be no different, writes Nicholas Khoo.

ABC News

Should the Australian War Memorial return the Shellal Mosaic?

Deep inside the Australian War Memorial is one of the country's most controversial artworks. Some in the Middle East say it should be returned home.

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15 facts to know about Veterans Day

Apostrophe or no apostrophe? How long should one observe the holiday? We've got the answers

Irish Mirror

Taoiseach says Irish wearing poppy 'not as controversial' as some suggest at UK event

The Taoiseach said that it was “appropriate” for him to pay respect to people who died during the wars

Asharq Al-Awsat

World Marks Armistice Day as Russia’s War in Ukraine Rages

Across the world, nations paid respect with moments of silence and solemn ceremonies for their fallen soldiers in World War I and ever since on an Armistice Day pierced by the rumblings of Russia's war in Ukraine that showed again that peace is all too often elusive. On the continent…

The Independent UK

World marks Armistice Day as Russia's war in Ukraine rages

Nations across the world pay respect with solemn ceremonies for their fallen soldiers in World War I and ever since on an Armistice Day pierced by the rumblings of Russia's war in Ukraine that showed again that peace is all too often elusive

Radio France Internationale

On Remembrance Day, France honours WWI dead through gardens of peace

Two gardens of peace dedicated to Danish, Czech and Slovakian soldiers who fought in World War I are being unveiled in France on Friday 11 November, the 104th anniversary of Remembrance Day. They are part of Gardens of Peace, an international memorial landscape project.

The Conversation

Remembering the veterans who marched on DC to demand bonuses during the Depression, only to be violently driven out by active-duty soldiers

The Bonus Army March is a forgotten footnote of American history.

The Conversation

Veterans have fought in wars – and fought against them

If former President Donald Trump had his way, the nation would have celebrated the centennial of the World War I armistice with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 11, 2018.

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