: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Europe marks 70 years since Nazi defeat, end of epochal war


Paris’ mile-long Champs Elysees was closed to traffic to make way for a procession of official motorcades and mounted military escorts that ascended the wide boulevard from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, site of France’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. ambassador to France joined French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to lay a wreath at the tomb, in a sign of appreciation for the American role in liberating France from German occupation.

Other ceremonies took place around Europe, including in Poland, where President Bronislaw Komorowski was joined by U.N. …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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