U.N. pays tribute to Waldheim, who writes "last word"
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The 192-nation General Assembly paid tribute on Friday to Kurt Waldheim, the fourth U.N. secretary-general, without mentioning his tarnished legacy as an officer in Nazi Germany's army in the Balkans.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called at an emotional tribute on Thursday for the prosecution of those behind the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people at the United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago.
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John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono is to unveil a light tower in Iceland on what would have been his 67th birthday.
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Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian president despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis, died Thursday, Austrian media reported. He was 88.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has picked Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney, a passionate advocate for an end to war and famine in Sudan's Darfur region, as the world body's latest Messenger of Peace, an official said Friday.
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About 150 diplomats, politicians, artists and others paid tribute at a concert by Pakistani musicians to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain in the city by Islamic militants.
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The United Nations has accorded Yasser Arafat honors as a head of state, holding a tribute in the General Assembly and flying the flag at half staff.
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The U.N. General Assembly will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of World War II Nazi concentration camps at a special session on Jan. 24, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called  at an emotional tribute on Thursday for the prosecution of  those behind the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people at the  United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago.
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Bob Woodward, Joan Didion and Seymour Hersh are among those who have agreed to participate in a short promotional film for David Halberstam's "The Coldest Winter," the final book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist who was killed last spring in a car accident.
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is a little relieved to be taking "The Lives of Others" outside Germany, where people responded emotionally and lavished the movie with seven Lolas (the country's equivalent of the Academy Awards).
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German contralto Wiebke Hoogklimmer announces an unusual programme - 'Der Krieg ist gestorben' ('The War has died') deals with the dream of peace in the imaginations of composers from Argentina, Mexico, ...
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The U.N. General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session Monday, and survivor Elie Wiesel and world leaders confronted a question that has long haunted the United Nations: whether the world body has the will to stop future genocide.
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French actor Gerard Depardieu will be  honored at this year&#39;s tribute of the Film Society of the  Lincoln Center which recognizes the extraordinary career of a  distinguished film artist each year.
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and LEO STANDORA. A small and solemn gathering of relatives, friends and fans quietly paid their respects last night to rapper ODB, whose short and stormy life ended suddenly in his Manhattan recording studio Saturday.
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Burmaâs democracy leader, Nobel laureate and General Secretary of The National League for Democracy (NLD), Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the honorary citizen of Paris by its city council in a ceremony held on 10 December.