French novelist Sagan to be buried in home region
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The best-selling French writer Francoise Sagan, who has died aged 69, is to be buried on Tuesday in a village near where she was born in southwestern France, family friends said.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be buried at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah when he dies, Palestinian officials said Wednesday.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot; at the age of 18 and courted controversy throughout her life, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
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France said Sunday it will bury the bodies of 18 people believed to be migrants who were seeking new lives in Europe and were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea by a naval frigate.
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The funeral of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, who has died aged 94, takes place in Cairo.
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By Jane Wooldridge, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -- A solitary grave sits near the top of the 10,000-foot pass, a simple monument with a yawning view of the bleached and scarred valley so loved by British geologist Sydney Hollingworth that he asked to buried here.
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The body of an elderly  rebel chieftain killed during a clash with Pakistani security  forces last weekend was hastily buried on Friday in his  hometown in Pakistan's restive southwest province of  Baluchistan.
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The northern French town of Lens has been selected as the site of an annexe to the Louvre museum in Paris as part of a plan to culturally and economically boost neglected parts of the country.
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France on Saturday mourned the loss of a "friend" with the death of Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who with more than 37 years at the helm was Africa's longest-serving leader.
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Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France's top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.
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Francoise Sagan, the French novelist who penned &quot;Bonjour Tristesse&quot;, an anthem to disillusioned youth that became one of the best-known books of the 20th century, died aged 69, family friends said.
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The remains of Czech-born American pianist Rudolf Firkusny are to be laid to rest in a cemetery in the Czech Republic 10 years after his death.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to present Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, in hiding in India after death threats, with an award in Paris, the French Embassy in India said Thursday.
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French author Francoise Sagan, who shot to fame with her first novel "Bonjour Tristesse" at the age of 18, died on Friday, a hospital spokesman said. Sagan, who was 69, courted controversy throughout her life and lived the Bohemian lifestyle she portrayed in her writing. She was a longstanding friend of late President Francois Mitterrand and was convicted of taking drugs and for tax fraud.
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A prominent French political figure who ordered hundreds of Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II will be buried wearing his Legion of Honor medal, his lawyer said Sunday, even though the deceased man was stripped of his right to wear the decoration in 1998.
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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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DERA BUGTI, Pakistan  - An elderly rebel chieftain   whose killing by Pakistani security forces last weekend sparked   violent protests was hastily buried on Friday in his hometown   in Pakistan's restive southwest province of Baluchistan.