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April 26, 2018

Thousands gather for ANZAC Day memorials around world

SYDNEY: Thousands of people attended dawn war memorial services on Wednesday across Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Britain, France and in Thailand to commemorate ANZAC Day, the Gallipoli landings and the centenary of the final year of World War One.On April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, where they fought under their own flags for the first time.The date is seared into the national consciousness as a...