The French embassy in Beirut has reportedly asked for a copy of a speech made last week by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who accused Paris of suggesting a “power triangle” in Lebanon.

An Nahar newspaper said Monday that the mission contacted Hizbullah official Ammar al-Moussawi to ask for the copy of the official document after Nasrallah mentioned the division of power among Sunnis, Shiites and Christians.

Nearly 900 European and American military parachutists filled the skies above Normandy on Sunday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

A large crowd watched as parachutists from France, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy jumped over the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, which played a major part in the Normandy landings during World War II. 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Saturday feted the 1944 liberation of a Breton village linked to his family and paid tribute to his country's "eternal" ties with France.

Kerry joined his first cousin Brice Lalonde, a former Green Party candidate for the French presidency and ex-mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, in paying respects to three U.S. soldiers who died on June 15, 1944 during the battle to free the wealthy seaside resort.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace on Saturday following D-Day commemorations with both sides pledging to deepen ties.

Hollande "thanked (Abbott) for his participation in the June 6 ceremonies and hailed the role of Australian soldiers who took part in the battle of Normandy alongside the Allies," the French president's office said in a statement.

Russia and Ukraine appeared to have made a long-awaited breakthrough in efforts to resolve a damaging crisis in their relations after conciliatory talks on the sidelines of Friday's D-Day anniversary ceremonies.

Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko embraced the spirit of the day that signaled the end of World War II by announcing they would jointly seek a ceasefire in the conflict between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in southeastern Ukraine.

French President Francois Hollande on Friday paid tribute to the "courage of the Red Army" and the "decisive contribution" of the former Soviet Union in winning World War II.

Hollande was addressing a score of world leaders and hundreds of D-Day veterans on the 70th anniversary of the landings, which this year has shared the limelight with a crisis in Ukraine that has pushed the West's relations with Russia to Cold War lows.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a working visit to Austria on June 24, where he will meet with leaders to discuss the situation in Ukraine, official sources in Vienna said Friday. 

Putin was to hold talks with President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Werner Faymann during the one-day flying visit, their respective offices told Agence France Presse. 

British Prime Minister David Cameron told Vladimir Putin to end Moscow's military meddling in Ukraine as he became the first western leader to meet the Russian president since Moscow's annexation of Crimea.

Putin, who has been cold-shouldered by the United States and its allies since the March seizure of the peninsula, met Cameron in Paris on Thursday ahead of talks later with French President Francois Hollande.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said he had "expressed some concerns" to France about its sale of warships to Russia.

"I have expressed some concerns, and I don't think I am alone," Obama said at a news conference in reply to a question about France's controversial decision to go ahead with a deal to sell two Mistral warships to Russia despite events in Ukraine.

D-Day veterans marched back to Normandy's beaches and villages on Thursday, in an emotional return marking 70 years since the launch of the biggest amphibious invasion in military history.

Royals, top brass and no fewer than 20 world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Russia's Vladimir Putin, will attend the main D-Day ceremony on Friday, amid ongoing diplomatic wrangling over the Ukraine crisis.