Commemorations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have begun in New York, at the site of the former World Trade Centre towers.
Crowds held a minute's silence at 8:46am, to mark the exact time that the first of two hi-jacked passenger jets struck the towers. Another minutes' silence at 9:06 is to mark the second impact. Two minutes of silence are also planned to mark the moments at which the towers collapsed. Services are also to be held in western Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon outside Washington, where terrorists crashed two other hijacked planes. Report: German Soldier Killed in Afghanistan ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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