MEXICO CITY — Those walking through the milling streets of downtown Mexico City on Friday were greeted with a strange and sleepy sight. Lolling with bright blue yoga mats, sleeping masks and travel pillows, hundreds of Mexicans laid sprawled out on the ground at the base of the city’s iconic Monument to the Revolution to … Read more
BERLIN — Across Germany, in schools, city halls, synagogues, churches and parliament, people came together Thursday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht — or the “Night of Broken Glass” — in 1938 in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, spoke at … Read more
LONDON — Russians commemorated the victims of Soviet state terror on Sunday, while the Russian government continues its crackdown on dissent in the country. The “Returning of the Names” event was organized by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial. The commemoration has traditionally been held in Moscow on Oct. 29 — the eve … Read more
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — 1000’s of individuals from round Bosnia and overseas gathered in Srebrenica on Tuesday for the annual ritual of commemorating the 1995 bloodbath within the japanese city and to provide a dignified burial to the victims unearthed from mass graves and solely not too long ago recognized by DNA evaluation. Twenty-eight years after … Read more
ON UTAH BEACH, France — Trying on the vastness of Utah Seaside, its sand blowing in sturdy wind and shiny sunshine, made Robert Gibson’s reminiscence of D-Day much more vivid. “It was powerful,” the 99-year-old veteran mentioned of the second when he landed there on June 6, 1944 alongside greater than 150,000 different Allied troops. … Read more