Jewish war veterans from a half a dozen countries and former resistance fighters mark the 40th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy as hundreds stroll along Utah beach where some of the heaviest fighting occurred, and hundreds more place wreaths at military ceremonies.
Delegates to the 19th congress of the Universal Postal Union, the largest international organization with a membership of 166 nations, meeting in Hamburg, reject an Arab initiative to expel Israel from the organization.
The extreme rightwing National Front Party, led by Jean Marie Le Pen, and said to be ideologically akin to the Vichy regime of World War II, receives a substantial boost in respectability when it stages a surprisingly good showing in the elections to the Parliament of Europe, based in Strasbourg.
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