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The Romani emancipation Memorial Day, marked each year on February 20, evokes a moment of great importance for the Roma minority in Romania, but also a fundamental historical step of our country towards democracy and modernity, President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday in a message.

President Barack Obama heralded the first U.S. Memorial Day in 14 years without a major ground war in an annual ceremony of remembrance on May 25 for fallen American forces.

Sci-fi adventure-drama ?Tomorrowland? starring George Clooney went straight to the top of the North American box office on its debut weekend, estimates showed May 24.

The Disney movie, which has had mixed reviews, was projected to pull in $40.7 million over the Memorial Day long weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

BELGRADE - The Memorial Day for the victims of Jasenovac marks the date of the liberationv of this concentration camp run by the Ustasha, one of the worst death camps in World War Two Europe, which some historians have dubbed the Serbian Auschwitz.

Israel accused Turkey's parliamentary speaker Jan. 28 of "misusing" a Holocaust commemoration to criticize Israeli policy, the latest exchange in a bitter row between the former allies.

The Taliban on Wednesday condemned President Barack Obama's announcement that US troops would stay in Afghanistan until the end of 2016.
      

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay EUR 90 M over the invasion of Cyrpus in 1974.

Monday's judgment also says the damages ascribed to Ankara were a compensation for losses the island's population suffered during the invasion, according to the Wall Street Journal.