Only king buried in U.S. to be sent home
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LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois: After an eventful but often tragic life, Yugoslavia's last monarch ended up in an unlikely spot: entombed in an ornately decorated suburban Chicago church that was intended to be his ...Comment
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France and is to be buried in his native United States, his wife said.
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The body of a relative of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden shot dead in Madagascar was flown to his family home in Saudi Arabia on Thursday after an autopsy.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remained in a deep coma and close to death at a hospital outside of Paris Wednesday, will be buried at his battered headquarters compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem, following a state funeral in Cairo, Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian officials said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarizes public opinion in his native Chile in death as he did in life, will be cremated on Tuesday following a military funeral.
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Thirty-seven years after he was forced to flee Greece, the country's last king was received yesterday in the central Athens mansion that for some six decades served as the royal palace.
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The last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was buried on Tuesday at a state funeral where thousands bid farewell to the monarch remembered for his peaceful reign who became known as the "father of the nation".
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Grammy Award-winning funk singer Rick James was laid to rest Saturday in his hometown, where 6,000 people waited for hours to pay their final respects.
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An article last Sunday about the collection at the Smithsonian Institution misstated the location of the burial site of the museumâs benefactor, James Smithson. His crypt lies inside the Smithsonian Castle, not near it.
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With his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, in a coma at home in western North Carolina, the Rev. Billy Graham announced yesterday that she will be buried in the city of Charlotte and not in her beloved mountains at the site she said she favored as recently as a week and a half ago.
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Elvis Presley's backing singer Solomon King, who sang with him in The Jordanaires, dies in the US aged 73
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France, June 6 â Beside a churning sea and an ocean of white marble crosses, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the United States and its European allies should honor the thousands of Americans buried here by strengthening the alliance they died defending.
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Ken Lay has taken his place alongside Elvis Presley in the pantheon of people whose deaths have not been fully believed.
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Washington: The United States on Friday declined to join a row over the potential burial of ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, adding that his death would not change US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Senators are now allowed to use taxpayer dollars to travel to the funerals of service members in their home states
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Tonga is making its last preparations to bury King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, with foreign dignitaries arriving to pay tribute to the man who ruled the Pacific island nation more than four decades.
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Bluesman B.B. King, who picked cotton  before picking up a guitar, and John "Buck" O'Neil, the  grandson of a slave who became Major League Baseball's first  black coach, are among this year's Presidential Medal of  Freedom recipients, the White House said on Thursday.