Thousands Mourn Ousted Chinese Leader
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Thousands in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil Friday for ousted Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who died Monday in his 15th year under house arrest for sympathizing with the Tiananmen pro-democracy protesters.
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Thousands of Palestinians, many shouting calls for revenge, on Monday buried a member of the militant group Hamas who was killed in a car bomb assassination in which Israeli security officials acknowledged they had a hand.
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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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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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China faces calls to reassess its suppression of the 1989 student protests after purged leader Zhao Ziyang dies.
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The funeral of purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who died on January 17, will take place on Saturday, his family and the government told AFP after days of wrangling about the service.
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Hundreds of thousands joined a chaotic funeral procession as the former prime minister was buried in her ancestral village.
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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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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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Taiwanese pay their respects to the infamous crime boss Chen Chi-li, who died earlier this month.
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Thousands gather in Bam to mourn some 30,000 victims of the earthquake that flattened the Iranian city a year ago.
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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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Anger and anguish spread throughout Pakistan as former PM is laid to rest
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Tens of thousands of Indonesians mourned former dictator Suharto during his state funeral Monday
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China holds a scaled-down funeral on  Saturday for Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief toppled in  1989 for opposing the army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square  demonstrations for democracy.
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Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral of the murdered student Meredith Kercher in south London.
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Up to 30,000 people attend the funeral of a Bangladeshi opposition politician killed in a grenade attack in Dhaka.