translated from Spanish: World leaders commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of the first World War

dozens of world leaders with the power of war but with the duty to preserve the peace gathered Sunday to remember the end of the mat dence of the first world war 100 years ago, transforming to Paris at the epicenter of the global commemorations that sent a powerful message to the world: ‘Never again’. More than 60 heads of State and Government took part in a solemn ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier, the silent and powerful symbol of the sacrifice of millions of people who died between 1914 and 1918.El time in Paris – grey and wet – seemed appropriate to the remember a war waged between the mud and the relentless horror. The ceremonies began late, exceeding the exact moment in which, 100 years earlier, at 11 in the morning, the eerie silence of peace replaced the thunder of the guns in the West of France. While the campaigns that marked the time of the Armistice began to sound in all of Paris and in many nations affected by four years of slaughter, Emmanuel Macron French President and other leaders were still en route to the place of the ceremony of the centenary, in the arc of the Triunfo.El ceasefire came into force at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 and Sunday was supposed to 69 world leaders to commemorate the centenary of the event at the same time at the tomb of the unknown soldier under the Arch of the Tri unfo Paris.bajo Center in a sea of black umbrellas, a row of leaders headed by Macron and their spouse Brigitte, marched in a silent stone on the cobblestones of the Champs-Elysées, once they come down from their bus. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, arrived separately in a caravan that went ahead of two protesters with slogans against the war written in her breasts and that somehow mocked security measures. The protesters were quickly separated by police. The Femen group claimed responsibility. The last to arrive was the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a place of privilege between Trump and Macron, a powerful symbol of winners and losers are now together, shoulder to shoulder. Above their heads, several warplanes from France crossed the sky, leaving trails of red, white and blue smoke, the colors of the French flag. In four years of brutal fighting, trenches and gas use France, the British Empire, Russia and United States opposed a coalition headed by Germany which also included to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. Nearly 10 million soldiers died. France lost 1.4 million and Germany 2 million. However, even though it was a war that was supposed was to end all wars, the second world war faced back to both sides.

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