Hanoi, Sept 2, 2025 (AFP) - Vietnam marks 80th independence anniversary with huge parade

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2025-09-02

Under fluttering flags and in a fever of national pride, legions of lock-stepped Vietnamese patriots marched through Hanoi on Tuesday in celebrations marking 80 years since the declaration of independence. Around 40,000 troops and civilians began parading just after dawn, feting the date when communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh declared a "Democratic Republic of Vietnam" free from French rule in 1945. Tanks, drones and missile batteries are poise......

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