Nelson Mandela marks his 89th birthday
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Nelson Mandela celebrated his 89th birthday Wednesday by joining with other Nobel peace laureates, politicians and development experts to form a "council of elders" dedicated to fostering peace and resolving global crises.
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Some of the world's best ever football players play a match for Nelson Mandela's 89th birthday.
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The film industry salutes the legendary actor.
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) holds a celebration day on Tuesday to mark 50 years of work. Heads of states, including French President Jacques Chirac and King Juan
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South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one  of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against  AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to  the disease on Thursday.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives in South Africa this week on a highly symbolic visit to honour Mahatma Gandhi who helped free both countries through his &quot;passive resistance&quot; drive launched here 100 years ago.
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Chile's ex-military ruler Augusto Pinochet marks his 89th birthday amid news that a judge has frozen more of his assets.
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When Nelson Mandela speaks, South  Africa usually listens. But his message on AIDS still has  trouble getting through.
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A statue of Nelson Mandela will be unveiled in central London.
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The funeral has taken place of Dr Beyers Naude, one of the leading anti-apartheid campaigners in South Africa, who died earlier this month aged 89.
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela threw his annual children's party Friday &#151; what he calls the favorite part of his weeklong birthday celebrations.
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The Spice Girls would love to perform  for former South African President Nelson Mandela, but said on  Monday they had not yet been formally asked to be part of his  planned 90th birthday celebrations in June.
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Beijing marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of its late supreme leader, Deng Xiaoping.
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Britain honored Nelson Mandela on  Wednesday by unveiling a bronze statue of South Africa&#39;s first  black president alongside those of statesmen such as Winston  Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 17 -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela plans to announce on Wednesday the creation of "the Elders," a group composed mostly of retired global leaders that will seek to tackle urgent world problems unfettered by the politics of any one nation, officials with the group...
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South Africa and the world must strive to uphold Nelson Mandela&#39;s legacy as a peacemaker as the anti-apartheid icon enters his dotage, former US president Bill Clinton said on Thursday.
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Mazisi Kunene, the first poet laureate of a democratic South Africa whose works recorded the history of the Zulu nation, has died at age 76.