Veterans Day, in the United States, national holiday (November 11) honouring veterans of the armed forces and those killed in the country’s wars. The observance originated in 1919 on the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice that ended World War I and was known as Armistice Day. It was commemorated in 1921 with the burial of an unknown soldier from World War I at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Other countries that had lost soldiers in the conflict, such as Italy and Portugal, conducted similar ceremonies that year. The previous year, unknown soldiers had been interred at Westminster Abbey
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PARIS, March 24 ― French car giant Renault announced yesterday it was immediately suspending operations at its Moscow factory after Kyiv called for a boycott of the company for remaining in Russia. Renault is also considering “the possible options” for its Russian affiliate AvtoVAZ, the.