Members of France’s Socialist Party were quick to react to the news, with leader François Hollande saluting “a great lady” who was “among the first to join the resistance against Nazi occupied France."
Those who think that cutting government spending is the only way to deal with national debts and deficits should take a close look at the employment picture in austerity Britain.
Britain's architect of austerity, Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, says he is pleased that the economy grew by 0.5 percent in the third quarter ... he has had less to say on the fact that the unemployment rate is at a 17 year high and is expected by private employers to grow over the next year. (SIMON DAWSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Britain's austerity program is putting people of all ages out of work.
Nancy Wake, pictured March 2, 2004, sitting in front of the Australian war memorial during a ceremony at Hyde Park corner in London. The Australian World War II heroine — a prominent figure in the French Resistance was known as the "The White Mouse" for her ability to evade the Germans — has died in London. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)
One of World War II’s most celebrated heroines, Nancy Wake — Born in New Zealand but raised in Australia — died aged 98 in a London hospital, where she had lived since 2001.
BREENDONK, Belgium — The legacy of collaboration has become the latest battlefield between Belgium's deeply divided French- and Dutch-speaking politicians.
In what is billed as one of the last Holocaust trials, a 97-year-old Hungarian man faced court on Thursday over his alleged part in a 1942 massacre of hundreds of Jews, Serbs and Roma.
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