Waterloo Bridge

Britain's Royal Navy has disposed of a suspected World War II bomb discovered in London's River Thames close to parliament, leading to the closure of two bridges, police said on Jan. 20.

"Victoria Embankment has now reopened after police and the Royal Navy worked together to remove a suspected WWII ordnance," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Bulgaria's President, Rosen Plevneliev, has unveiled a statue of the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, who was assassinated on Waterloo Bridge in London in 1978 in one of the most infamous targeted killings of the Cold War era.

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