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Foreign leaders taking part in a ceremony marking 70 years since the end of World War II, light candles at the monument to Gdansk shipyard workers killed by the security and the armed forces in 1970, in front of the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, on Thursday, May 7, 2015. Present are U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Council President Donald Tusk, a native of nearby city of Gdansk, and the presidents of Ukraine and several Central European countries.
Czarek Sokolowski, AP
Foreign leaders taking part in a ceremony marking 70 years since the end of World War II, light candles at the monument to Gdansk shipyard workers killed by the security and the armed forces in 1970, in front of the shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, on Thursday, May 7, 2015. Present are U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, European Council President Donald Tusk, a native of nearby city of Gdansk, and the presidents of Ukraine and several Central European countries.
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Poland’s president is leading international commemorations on Thursday marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, a gathering meant as an alternative celebration to Moscow’s Red Square parade two days later.