War of Independence

The French may adore Hollywood cinema, country music and the allure of the American Dream, and celebrate ties that date back to America's war of independence, but they have kept some distance too - shunning what's known here as "Le Woke-isme" and, today more than ever, celebrating President De Gaulle's determination to build an entirely French-owned nuclear deterrent separate from both Nato and the US.

Algeria was once a prized French colony and fought a dogged war of independence eventually winning its sovereignty in 1962.

But his demise was heralded when veterans of the 1970s war of independence withdrew their support for him.

It's also the first time any of the camps, which were established in the early 1950s for Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes during Israel's War of Independence, have been almost completely evacuated.

Thousands more were injured in the worst violence Bangladesh has seen since its war of independence in 1971.