Armistice Day

King Charles III led the United Kingdom in honouring Britain’s fallen soldiers in a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London.

Vandals defaced a Cenotaph war memorial in Rochdale, England with graffiti that read “Free Palestine” on Tuesday.

The Metropolitan Police begged pro-Palestine activists to “reconsider” protesting on Armistice Day in London on Saturday.

Rishi Sunak warned that the pro-Palestine rally planned for November 11th could “desecrate” the memory of those who died in battle for Britain.

Schools, businesses, and streets fell silent Thursday morning as the nation honoured war dead on the 103rd anniversary of armistice day.

The Extinction Rebellion activist that staged a protest on the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day has further insulted the UK’s war dead by describing the annual Armistice Day service as a “little ritual”.

The eco-extremist group Extinction Rebellion staged an impromptu protest on Wednesday at Britain’s war memorial, the Cenotaph, hanging a wreath and a banner on the monument which read “Honour Their Sacrifice, Climate Change Means War”.

A number of war memorials around the United Kingdom have been vandalised ahead of Armistice Day, when the country marks the end of the First World War. 

Queen Elizabeth II left isolation for the first time since March to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, as Britain attempts to commemorate the fallen despite the coronavirus lockdown.

The Royal Family and members of Britain’s Armed Forces will be barred from singing the national anthem on Armistice Day, over fears that the patriotic songs will spread the Chinese coronavirus.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the Great War Armistice centenary Sunday to lash out at populism and nations that do not conform to narrow ideas of globalism, making a series of apparently thinly veiled attacks on U.S. President Donald Trump.

Even as Emmanuel Macron is zapping President Trump for being a nationalist, the French president will be pushing, in Trump’s absence, a whole new initiative built around—you guessed it—globalism. And guess who is funding Macron’s “Paris Peace Forum”?

Aaron Bastani, a Labour Party member and media talking head, launched an astonishing attack on the Poppy Appeal, the Royal British Legion, and the Invictus Head ahead of the First World War centenary.

The standard view of World War I is that it is a testament to the futility of war. But maybe the better lesson to learn on the 100th anniversary of WWI’s end is that if war comes, it is better to win than to lose.

(AFP) — President Donald Trump paid tribute to the “great warriors” who died in World War I as he visited a U.S. cemetery in France, a day after drawing fire for cancelling a similar trip due to bad weather.

Dr. Matt Naylor, president of the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss this year’s centennial commemoration of WWI’s armistice. Sunday will mark 100 years since WWI’s conclusion.

PARIS (AP) — The feminist activist group Femen has claimed responsibility for topless protesters who disrupted U.S. President Donald Trump’s motorcade on its way to a ceremony commemorating the end of World War I.

PARIS (AP) – A hundred years later, their words can still pierce hearts. Fighters writing home from opposing front lines of World War I, a Chinese labourer marvelling at the war’s end, a woman dreaming of reuniting with her soldier love.

Leading military and political figures have condemned the Tory government’s decision to exclude Rhodesian veterans from services commemorating the centenary of the First World War while inviting Germany to participate.

British Prime Minister Theresa May and her Belgian Counterpart Charles Michel’s motorcade was involved in a car collision Friday morning as the two leaders were travelling between Great War centenary memorial events. 

For those on the ground in Europe the last twenty-four hours before the cessation of hostilities on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, that day was nothing less than hell on earth.

Nearly half of female Millennials would seek to dodge conscription if the United Kingdom introduced a military draft to fight a hypothetical future war, research has found, with just one-in-ten Brits willing to volunteer.

On Monday, President Donald Trump said that even though he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will both be in Paris for the Armistice Day commemoration on November 11, they would “probably not” hold a meeting. The Kremlin on Tuesday contradicted Trump and said Putin does expect to meet briefly with him in Paris.

Vandals have wrecked the Garden of Remembrance opened to commemorate the fallen ahead of the First World War centenary in Edinburgh, Scotland.

James O’Brien, the angry LBC talk show host who has a built a career on saying dumb, left-wing things in order to get attention has found a new way to be annoying: he has announced that conservatives have no right to wear Remembrance poppies because fascism.

UK police forces and units up and down the country have plastered their cars with poppies to commemorate our Armed Forces on the centenary of World War One.

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided against holding a military parade on the Great War Armistice centenary as it may offend Germans.

Cambridge University students have rejected a proposal to honour British veterans on the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, with activists claiming it was “imperialist propaganda” that “valourised” war.

As Memorial Day approaches, this a fitting time to reflect upon the achievements of one of the forgotten war’s forgotten heroes, Edward Younger.

A writer for The New European newspaper has elicited disgust after speculating on how many elderly Brexit voters will die in the winter, and predicting that their grandchildren will “spit on their graves”.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage told Breitbart News Daily listeners that visiting historic battlefields will help them understand the sacrifices their countries made as the U.S., Britain, and Europe begin to re-embrace the nation-state.

LONDON (AP) — People across Britain have paused for Armistice Day ceremonies to remember those killed in war.

Military historian Patrick K. O’Donnell, author of the best-selling book Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about the long history of American military courage commemorated on Veterans Day.

Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings against England and Scotland for displaying poppies on their kits during a World Cup qualifier on Armistice Day.

Locals in Maesteg, Wales, have been left shocked after two thieves stole poppy collection tins from a Royal British Legion club in the early hours of Armistice Day. Six poppy appeal collection tins were taken in the raid – just hours

Member states across the Commonwealth of Nations including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are marking Armistice day today. New Zealand and Australia were the first to remember the millions of men and women who fell in the service