Thousands mourn Mandela's son
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Thousands of mourners are expected to join Nelson Mandela at the funeral of his son, Makgatho.
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The only surviving son of former  South African President Nelson Mandela died on Thursday in  Johannesburg following an undisclosed illness, a hospital  official said.
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Thousands of mourners gather in the Lebanese capital for the funeral of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, killed in a car bombing.
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Thousands of mourners gathered in Auckland on Tuesday to bid farewell to New Zealand's national hero Edmund Hillary, the first man to stand atop Mount Everest, at a rare state funeral.
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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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GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan  - Chants of Koranic verses and somber hymns resonated throughout Benazir Bhutto's ancestral village in southern Pakistan on Thursday as thousands gathered at the assassinated former prime minister's tomb to mark a 40th and final day of mourning.
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Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the antiapartheid struggle yesterday as Britain unveiled a towering statue in his honor outside the Houses of Parliament, saying it symbolized the sacrifices made by all who fight oppression.
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Many mourn at a train station where hundreds perished.
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Millions of ordinary Poles offered prayers Wednesday for their country's most famous son, Pope John Paul II, who is hospitalized in Rome.
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AMSTERDAM  - Some 20,000 people gathered in Amsterdam to pay homage to controversial Dutch filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh who was murdered in the street.
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KARACHI - Blotting tears with tattered and dusty head scarves, mothers of dozens of bodyguards killed while protecting Benazir Bhutto cling to the belief that their sons died for Pakistan.
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Thousands of mourners streamed into daredevil naturalist Steve Irwin's zoo ahead of a public memorial service that will be watched by millions of viewers across the world.
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Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Japan's scandal-hit agriculture minister, following his suicide.
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South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one  of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against  AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to  the disease Thursday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, paying their respects to a former dictator who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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Thousands of grieving people and top politicians attended a grim funeral service held to bury some 160 Congolese Tutsis slaughtered in a refugee camp in Burundi.
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Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of controversial Dutch director Theo van Gogh, killed by a suspected Islamic radical in an attack that has shocked traditionally tolerant Dutch society and fueled ethnic tensions.