World leaders gathered in France for D-Day
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State leaders set to gather together at Ouistreham, one of five beaches where Allied troops invaded German-occupied western Europe on 6 June 1944.
World leaders and World War II veterans are continuing to arrive in France to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion in Normandy.
State leaders will gather at Ouistreham, one of the five beaches where Allied troops landed on 6 June 1944.
More than 150,000 American, British, Canadian and other Allied D-Day veterans who risked and lost their lives to defeat Adolf Hitlers Third Reich, will be honored.
The commemoration marks the Invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day, when Western Allied forces established a bridgehead in German-occupied Western Europe in 1944 under Operation Overlord.
It was the largest seaborne invasion in world history.
As relations between the west and Russia remain tense following the events in Ukraine, observers are waiting to see if Russian President Vladimir Putin will cross paths with US President Barack Obama.
- Rare visit
However, Putin told French Radio Europe 1 and TF1 on Wednesday that he would not avoid US President Barack Obama during the two D-Day commemorations in France this week.
Putin, who was excluded from the G-7 summit in Brussels on Thursday, dined with French President Francois Hollande in Paris in the evening after the French leader had a separate dinner with Obama.
US Secretary of State John Kerry met his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Paris on Thursday.
Putin also met British Prime Minister David Cameron - his first face-to-face encounter with a Western leader since the onset of the crisis - at the Charles De Gaulle Airport of the French capital, to discuss the Ukrainian crisis on Thursday.
Britain's 88-year-old Queen Elizabeth II also arrived in Paris on Thursday accompanied by her 92-year-old husband, Prince Philip, for a rare overseas visit.
The Royal couple's last foreign visit was a one-day trip to Rome in April to see Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Pope Francis.
It was the first time the Queen had left Britain since visiting Australia in October 2011.
State leaders will gather at Ouistreham, one of the five beaches where Allied troops landed on 6 June 1944.
More than 150,000 American, British, Canadian and other Allied D-Day veterans who risked and lost their lives to defeat Adolf Hitlers Third Reich, will be honored.
The commemoration marks the Invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day, when Western Allied forces established a bridgehead in German-occupied Western Europe in 1944 under Operation Overlord.
It was the largest seaborne invasion in world history.
As relations between the west and Russia remain tense following the events in Ukraine, observers are waiting to see if Russian President Vladimir Putin will cross paths with US President Barack Obama.
- Rare visit
However, Putin told French Radio Europe 1 and TF1 on Wednesday that he would not avoid US President Barack Obama during the two D-Day commemorations in France this week.
Putin, who was excluded from the G-7 summit in Brussels on Thursday, dined with French President Francois Hollande in Paris in the evening after the French leader had a separate dinner with Obama.
US Secretary of State John Kerry met his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Paris on Thursday.
Putin also met British Prime Minister David Cameron - his first face-to-face encounter with a Western leader since the onset of the crisis - at the Charles De Gaulle Airport of the French capital, to discuss the Ukrainian crisis on Thursday.
Britain's 88-year-old Queen Elizabeth II also arrived in Paris on Thursday accompanied by her 92-year-old husband, Prince Philip, for a rare overseas visit.
The Royal couple's last foreign visit was a one-day trip to Rome in April to see Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Pope Francis.
It was the first time the Queen had left Britain since visiting Australia in October 2011.
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