Portugal mourns Fatima seer
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Portugal has declared Tuesday a day of mourning and politicians cut back election campaigning to mark the death of Lucia de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary at Fatima.
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Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of Japan's scandal-hit agriculture minister, following his suicide.
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Nuns of Mother Teresa's order marked the seventh anniversary of her death with special prayers for the children who died in Russia's school hostage crisis.
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Jose Fialho Gouveia, a pioneer of television entertainment in Portugal, died Saturday.
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The Netherlands mourned filmmaker  Theo van Gogh killed last week by a suspected Islamic militant,  while Dutch Muslims rallied to urge reconciliation on Tuesday  after a wave of attacks on mosques and churches.
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Hundreds of visitors started gathering at the tomb of Mother Teresa in eastern India on Wednesday to pay tribute on the tenth anniversary of her death, with many hoping for the nun&#39;s sainthood.
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Portugal made good Tuesday on a promise to help restore the reputation of one of its diplomats who saved thousands of Jews during World War II, only to be fired in disgrace by his neutral government over fears of angering Nazi Germany.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 11 -- When the Mass concluded with a benedictory prayer Monday afternoon, several hundred mourners mingled quietly for a moment around the glass-topped coffin of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, crossing themselves and stealing one final look at the pale visage of a man who ruled this...
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The last of three children who say the Virgin Mary appeared before them in Portugal in 1917 dies aged 97.
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More than 2,000 people joined the family of Margaret Hassan in Westminster Cathedral yesterday at a memorial service for the aid worker who was murdered while a hostage in Iraq.
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Lucia dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917, has been buried after a procession marked by tears, flowers and white handkerchiefs.
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MANILA Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos joined the funeral Wednesday for Fernando Poe Jr., the country&#39;s most popular actor, who nearly unseated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the presidential election this year.
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FILIPINOS buried the film legend Fernando Poe jnr yesterday with sorrow and spectacle but without the violence that many had feared would mar the funeral of the former presidential candidate.
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Pope John Paul II praised Portugal's visiting president Friday for his nation's conservative Catholicism, saying it could inspire hope amid a "grave crisis" in modern values.
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Portugal planned a national day of mourning Tuesday for Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima.
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Jose Fialho Gouveia, a pioneer of television entertainment in Portugal, died Saturday. He was 69.