President pays tribute to Mahfouz
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Egypt's Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz dies in hospital in Cairo, at the age of 94.
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President Bush is to honour those who have "dedicated their lives" to rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
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From the Vatican to the Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan, tributes poured in today for Yasir Arafat, a man regarded as an international leader by many and a terrorist by others.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian negotiations minister Saeb Erakat paid tribute to outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell Tuesday as a man who commanded respect but said his successor had to show more balance in the Middle East conflict.
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SHEIKH Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, died yesterday after more than three decades in power.
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Although he did not live to see Palestinian statehood, Yasser Arafat was given a funeral yesterday worthy of a head of state and attended by kings and presidents from around the world.
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Thousands of Lebanese attended the funeral today of an anti-Syrian lawmaker whose assassination further rocked Lebanonâs political order.
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PARIS When I heard George W. Bush and Ghazi al-Yawar, the interim Iraqi president, speak of elections as the &quot;savior&quot; for freedom-hungry Iraqis in the midst of war, I was reminded with Queen Marie Antoinette&#39;s infamous solution to the starving French
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I must start by thanking the French government and people for honoring President Yasser Arafat who spent his last days in their hospitality.
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Arab leaders and other dignitaries prayed Wednesday over the body of United Arab Emirates President Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, paying final respects
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Tens of thousands of Afghans paid tribute  Wednesday to Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Masood,  slain by al Qaeda two days before the Sept. 11 attacks but  still a key political icon three years after his death.
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President APJ Abdul Kalam, Vice-President Bhairon Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were among the leaders who visited the residence of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao to pay tributes to him.
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Mourners pay tribute to the assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was buried in her family's mausoleum at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh
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MANY mourned his death by crying, lighting candles, chanting their idol&#39;s name, or waving banners and small flags calling him President.
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Presidents and dignitaries from more than  50 countries say a last farewell on Friday to late Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat in Egypt, his second home and one of his  closest allies in years of struggle for a homeland.
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Tony Blair pays tribute to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat after his death in a French hospital aged 75.
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy leads the tributes to mime artist Marcel Marceau, who has died aged 84.