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  Love not lost! 100-year-old WWII veteran marries 96-year-old fiancee near Normandy's D-Day beaches

  World | June 08, 2024 17:51 IST

  Harold Terens, 100, and Jeanne Swerlin, 96, are both widows from earlier marriages and started dating in 2021. Terens was honoured during the D-Day commemorations in Normandy, France, having enlisted in the US Army in 1942 and repairing planes during the Allied invasion in France on June 6, 1944.

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  PM Modi pays homage to Jam Saheb Maharaja Digvijay Singh, recalls role in building India-Poland ties

  Gujarat | May 03, 2024 16:09 IST

  PM Modi said India's relationship with Poland is strong because of the efforts made by Jam Saheb Maharaja Digvijay Singh. The Prime Minister also visited the latter's son and Jam Saheb Shri Shatrusalyasinhji in Jamnagar on Thursday.

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  1.4-ton WW II bomb defused in Germany, 65,000 people evacuated in biggest post-war exercise

  World | September 04, 2017 10:35 IST

  The evacuation on Sunday morning was the biggest in post-war German history, involving hundreds of officials

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  54000 Germans must evacuate while experts defuse WWII bomb

  World | December 24, 2016 23:24 IST

  More than 54,000 individuals in the southern German city of Augsburg must leave their homes Christmas morning while authorities defuse a giant 1.8-ton airborne bomb from World War II. The city's medieval cathedral and City

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  Killed in World War II, a US war veteran ‘returns home’ after decades

  World | May 24, 2016 20:10 IST

  New Orleans: Pvt Earl Joseph Keating, a soldier who was killed in 1942 during World War II, finally came home in New Orleans after his remains were discovered on the Pacific island. Recounting this long

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  India should issue stamp of WW II heroine Noor Inayat Khan says campaigners

  World | March 25, 2014 16:38 IST

  London: As Britain's Royal Mail today issued a stamp of Indian-origin World War II heroine Noor Inayat Khan, campaigners called for India to bestow a similar honour on the famous spy in her centenary year.

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  Royal Mail issues stamp of WW II heroine Noor Inayat

  World | March 24, 2014 23:35 IST

  London: In a rare honour, Britain's Royal Mail has issued a postage stamp of Noor Inayat Khan, the Indian-origin World War II heroine, who was a descendant of Tipu Sultan.The stamp - part of a