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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Raf Casert and Marta Fiorin

Somber bugles and bells mark Armistice Day around the globe as wars drown out peace messages

ASSOCIATED PRESS

With somber bugles and bells from Australia to western Europe's battlefields of World War I, people around the globe on Saturday remembered the slaughter and losses just over a century ago that was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.”

Yet the rumble of tanks and the screeching of incoming fire from Ukraine to Gaza pierced the solemnity of the occasion and the notion that humankind could somehow circumvent violence to settle its worst differences.

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