Activists join funeral of elder Vietnamese dissident
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Vietnamese political activists spanning the generations on Saturday bade farewell to onetime senior Communist Party member turned dissident Hoang Minh Chinh, who died in his late 80s earlier this month.
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Vietnamese dissidents say a Catholic priest prominent in the democracy movement has been arrested.
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The funeral of former hunger striker and IRA commander Brendan Hughes has taken place.
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Senior Lebanese politicians are expected at the funeral of assassinated anti-Syrian MP Antoine Ghanim.
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SANTIAGO -- About 5,000 supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned yesterday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses.
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Vietnamese police have accused a prominent dissident Catholic priest of disseminating propaganda intended to undermine the communist government, officials and state media said Monday.
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Friends and family of murdered South African reggae star Lucky Dube attend a memorial service and protest march.
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High-ranking Egyptian officials attended the funeral of the billionaire son-in-law of former president Gamel Abdel Nasser in Cairo on Monday despite his mysterious death amid reports he spied for Israel.
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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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Filipinos buried movie legend turned politician Fernando Poe Jr with sorrow and spectacle on Wednesday as warnings and rumors of plots failed to materialize among the large, peaceful crowd for the funeral.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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Thousands of Nicaraguans turned out Wednesday for the funeral of former presidential candidate Herty Lewites, whose unexpected death appeared to increase the chances of Sandinista ex-President Daniel Ortega returning to power in November's election.
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Filipinos buried movie legend turned  politician Fernando Poe Jr with sorrow and spectacle on  Wednesday as warnings and rumors of plots failed to materialize  among the large, peaceful crowd for the funeral.
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Mourners at funeral of anti-Syrian MP killed in bomb blast chant slogans against Syrian president.
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The funeral of China's purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is due to be held on Saturday.
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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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Under tight security, thousands of people gathered in Kabul on Thursday for the funeral of lawmakers who died in the country's deadliest-ever suicide attack, a strike that killed some 73 people, many of them schoolchildren.