France's President Francois Hollande, right, hugs German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the end of a speech at the Verdun townhall, northeastern France, Sunday May 29, 2016, during a remembrance ceremony to mark the centenary of the battle of Verdun. Hollande and Merkel are marking 100 years since the 10-month Battle of Verdun, which killed 163,000 French and 143,000 German soldiers and wounded hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool), APTOPIX