Pomp, ceremony but no public at Mahfouz's funeral
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Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz   was given a state funeral on Thursday but the everyday   Egyptians his novels depicted were kept out of sight by heavy   security.
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Egypt was preparing to give Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a full military funeral at a ceremony near his childhood home in Cairo to be attended by scores of foreign leaders but closed to the public.
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Arab leaders and other dignitaries prayed Wednesday over the body of United Arab Emirates President Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, paying final respects
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After the deafening protests of around 20,000 people in central Amsterdam in memory of slain Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh his funeral services passed in a subdued mood with some 700 people following the gathering on giant screens.
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Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s coffin is loaded onto an aircraft for it&#39;s flight to Cairo after being carried by a French military honor guard, foreground, at Villacoublay airbase south-west of Paris, Thursday Nov. 11, 2004.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Hundreds of wailing mourners gathered to bury five slain police officers yesterday as gunfire crackled around the capital, where clashes between supporters of the US-backed government and ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide have plagued peacekeepers. Photographs of three officers who were beheaded sat beside their cremated remains in a police academy where the funerals were held, while the open ...
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NAUDERO, Pakistan  - Thousands of mourners began the funeral on Friday of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination plunged the nuclear-armed country into one of the worst crises in its 60-year history.
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The funeral of Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat began on Friday when Egypt's top Muslim cleric  said prayers over his coffin at a military base in Cairo.
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BEIRUT -- The funeral for an anti-Syrian lawmaker killed by a car bomb swelled yesterday to tens of thousands of mourners, who angrily blamed the Damascus government and its ally Hezbollah for the latest political killing in Lebanon.
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High-ranking Egyptian officials attended the funeral of the billionaire son-in-law of former president Gamel Abdel Nasser in Cairo on Monday despite his mysterious death amid reports he spied for Israel.
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ELEANOR HALL: But first to Egypt, where preparations are underway for the funeral of the man who for almost half a century was one of the most dominant figures in Middle East politics.
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as warnings and rumours of plots failed to materialise among the large, peaceful crowd for the funeral. journey through the streets of Manila to his family&#39;s tomb on Wednesday.
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Mourners attend the funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by New York police a week ago.
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Thousands of Lebanese attended the funeral on Friday of an anti-Syrian Christian legislator whose assassination this week fuelled tensions ahead of Lebanon's bitterly contested presidential election.
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Yasser Arafat's funeral will begin Friday inside a military compound on the outskirts of Cairo, in what will be a brief and solemn ceremony attended by scores of world leaders but closed to the public.
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Yasir Arafat's body was flown to Cairo to lie in state before a military funeral on Friday to be attended by Arab leaders.
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Families of Israelis killed in last year's war in Lebanon held a memorial ceremony at the national military cemetery on Monday, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not attend, drawing harsh criticism.