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British and French troops stage a joint parade at Buckingham Palace to mark the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, the bilateral agreements signed on April 8, 1904 by the two countries to settle colonial disputes. IMAGES
Speaking at the re-opening of the National Maritime Museum in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron asserts France's investments in the Sea "with to the two latest laws on military programming and with the scientific and industrial programmes that we want to safeguard". (COMPLETE VID344Z97T_FR) SOUNDBITE
Chilean President Gabriel Boric marches in the capital Santiago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende. IMAGES
The US West Point military academy finds no apparent contents in a 200-year-old time capsule recently discovered inside the base of a monument at West Point, New York, and believed to have been left by cadets in the 1820s. "The box didn't quite meet expectations," says an expert during the unveiling ceremony, adding that his team will collect a layer of silt from the bottom of the box to see if they can find any remains in it. IMAGES
President Gustavo Petro attends a military parade in San Andres to mark Colombia's Independence Day. IMAGES
The coffin of slain Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba returns to his home region for an emotionally charged tour and burial, more than six decades after his assassination. Lumumba earned his place in history as an anti-colonial icon when the DRC proclaimed independence from Belgium on June 30, 1960, delivering a fiery speech against settler racism. He was overthrown that September before separatists from the southern region of Katanga and Belgian mercenaries executed him and two close supporters, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, on January 17, 1961. IMAGES
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