Family of China's Zhao Forgoes State Funeral
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The family of purged Communist Party  chief Zhao Ziyang has decided to forgo a state funeral, sparing  China's leaders a sensitive decision on whether to hold a  high-profile ceremony that they fear could trigger protests.
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Tens of thousands of Indonesians mourned former dictator Suharto during his state funeral Monday
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The family of China's purged Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang, has decided not to request the government to arrange a state funeral, a source close to the family said on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- The friends and family of a slain Fallujah tribal leader Alawi Ahmed Zuwaid decided to ignore a threatening leaflet and honor him yesterday with a public funeral. In return, the mourners were hit with the most deadly bombing of the day in Iraq.
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GIRIBANGUN, Indonesia  - Former Indonesian president Suharto, whose 32 years in power were marred by graft and rights abuses, was buried near the royal city of Solo in a state funeral with full military honors on Monday.
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Zhao Ziyang, a reformist toppled as  China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army  crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in  hospital on Monday, his family said. He was 85.
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Wildlife TV star Steve Irwin's grieving father turned down a state funeral for a son he described as &quot;an ordinary bloke,&quot; as a global wave of mourning astonished Australia.
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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BEIJING  - All 166 miners trapped after a gas blast in China were confirmed dead, sparking riots by hundreds of angry relatives who stormed a government office, smashed windows and beat officials.
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Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader who was deposed after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, is in a deep coma and may be close to death, a human rights activist said Saturday.
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Zhao Ziyang, former Chinese Communist  Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the Tiananmen  pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma on Sunday and could  die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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Hundreds of mourners braved police  checks Saturday to attend a low-key invitation-only funeral for  Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party chief purged for  opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
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Zhao Ziyang, the former general secretary of China's Communist Party, lived under house arrest for 15 years, not far from the government offices where he once led China.
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NAUDERO, Pakistan  - Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads in grief as the body of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's slain former prime minister, was carried out of her ancestral home on her funeral procession on Friday.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's  Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the  1989 Tiananmen Square protests, turned 85 on Sunday in poor  health and living his 15th year under house arrest.
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China's state newspapers stuck closely  to script on Sunday, printing only the official news agency's  report on the cremation of former leader Zhao Ziyang, purged  for opposing the use of force to end protests in 1989.
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Grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.