Uneasy calm at aborigine funeral
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An aboriginal man who died in police custody is buried amid local anger in northern Australia.
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Friends and fans, including Hollywood stars and Australia's prime minister, bid farewell to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin on Wednesday at a service that veered from poignant tributes to belly laughs.
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Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the nation's capital is built on their land.
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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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Australia's parliament opened with a landmark Aboriginal ceremony Tuesday as a dramatic symbol of the new government's pledge to right injustices of the past.
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Australasia News, BRISBANE, Australia : Nine people have been arrested over a riot in an Aboriginal community in northern Australia triggered by anger at the death of a local man in police custody, but a top official has warned that violence could flare
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Australia on Sunday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Aborigines citizenship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders of the hardships facing the continent's original inhabitants.
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A tent city has sprung up near Australia's national parliament as Aborigines arrive in the nation's capital to hear the government apologize for past injustices against indigenous children and families.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aborigine Daryl Allen, 60, sits cross-legged in the dirt dreaming of the good times when his outback people lived hunting kangaroo and working as cattlemen, instead of drinking themselves to death.
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Australia is preparing to say a final farewell to &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin, as his family put the final touches to a public memorial billed as a celebration of his life.
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A funeral is held for Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner who became a leading anti-apartheid campaigner.
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Australia's government presents a formal apology for past wrongs inflicted on the Aboriginal community.
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Hundreds of people attended a funeral Monday for a woman killed in a shooting rampage at a Jewish charity, saying they hoped her violent death would prompt actions of peace.
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There was little outpouring of grief at the funeral for Indonesia's longest-serving leader -- only respect and a sense that an era had ended
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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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Australia on Sunday marked 40 years since a historic referendum granted Aborigines citizenship, but celebrations were muted by stark reminders of the hardships facing the continent's original inhabitants.
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The funeral of a man who died after an argument over litter is to take place.