India prepares Rao state funeral
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Leading Indian dignitaries gather in Hyderabad for Saturday's state funeral of ex-premier PV Narasimha Rao.
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Hyderabad, Dec. 25: Twenty-one guns boomed to bid farewell to PV Narasimha Rao as his eldest son lit the funeral pyre on the banks of the Hussainsagar lake.
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Tonga is making its last preparations to bury King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, with foreign dignitaries arriving to pay tribute to the man who ruled the Pacific island nation more than four decades.
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PV Narasimha Rao, a former prime minister of India, has died of heart failure. Mr. Rao died in a New Delhi hospital two weeks after he was admitted for a cardiac problem.
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Yasir Arafat's body was flown to Cairo to lie in state before a military funeral on Friday to be attended by Arab leaders.
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A funeral is to be held for Chile's former military leader, Augusto Pinochet, in the capital, Santiago.
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MALEGAON, India  - A Muslim-majority town in   western India buried its dead as troops patrolled the streets   on Saturday to prevent religious riots, a day after bomb blasts   killed 32 people and wounded dozens.
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Egypt prepared Thursday for a strictly controlled military funeral for Yasser Arafat where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects, but where the people &#151; among whom Arafat was by far more popular &#151; will be mostly shut out.
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Thousands of followers of Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi attend his cremation in the northern India city of Allahabad.
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Celebrities, politicians and thousands of fans will attend the funeral of Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti.
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GIRIBANGUN, Indonesia  - Tens of thousands of people lined the roads around Indonesia's royal city of Solo on Monday for the state funeral of autocratic former president Suharto at the family's mausoleum.
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More than 5,000 people, including the prime minister, are expected to cram the "Crocoseum" at the Australia Zoo on Wednesday to say farewell to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin at a memorial service.
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Bangalore, Dec 24 - The Chief Minister, N Dharam Singh, several Union and State Ministers, MPs and political leaders have expressed grief over the death of the former Prime Minister, PV Narasimha Rao.
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Victims of bomb attacks near a mosque in an Indian town are buried, as police are on alert for communal violence.
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Relatives prepare to cremate around 300 Hindu pilgrims who died in a stampede at an Indian religious festival.
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The 83-year-old former Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao, has died of cardiac failure in a New Delhi hospital. In 1991 Narasimha Rao became first outside the Nehru-Gandhi family India&#39;s prime minister.
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HYDERABAD, India - Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, the father of Indiaâs economic reforms who died this week in political obscurity, was cremated on Saturday in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.