'Shared values'Trump arrives in France from a three-day state visit to Britain, where he attended a ceremony in Portsmouth to mark D-Day alongside Queen Elizabeth II and over a dozen other world leaders. In a joint proclamation, the 16 nations present at Portsmouth affirmed their shared responsibility to ensure that the horrors of World War II are never repeated. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who attended the Portsmouth ceremony, will not be present in Normandy. Russia's foreign ministry said Wednesday that the Allied invasion on D-Day did not determine the course of World War II and its importance should not be exaggerated. On June 6, 1944, now known as the "longest day", 156,000 troops landed on the beaches chosen for the D-Day invasion, most of them American, British and Canadian.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 06, 2019 06:11 UTC