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France honours newly identified Australian war dead

By Order of the First World War on July 25, 2011 12:57 PM

FROMELLES, France, July 20, 2011 (AFP) - - The graves of 14 newly identified Australian World War I soldiers were consecrated Tuesday in the French fields where they lie, 95 years after they died along with thousands of comrades."It's a...

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Otto von Habsburg who saw end of empire dead at 98

By Order of the First World War on July 25, 2011 12:49 PM

BERLIN (AP) -- Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe.The oldest son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor fought Nazism...

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