Thousands queue to see Mao on anniversary
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Thousands queued at Beijing's Mao   Zedong Mausoleum on Saturday for a glimpse of the embalmed   corpse of the former Great Helmsman on the 30th anniversary of   his death but Chinese state media kept coverage of the event   low-key.
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Thousands of people in Hong Kong paid  tribute to China's purged leader Zhao Ziyang at a candlelight  vigil on Friday, the largest gathering yet on Chinese soil to  mourn his death.
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Tens of thousands of  people turned out to greet Pakistan&#39;s suspended chief justice  as he traveled to a northwestern town on Saturday to forge  resistance to President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s attempt to sack him.
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Tens of thousands people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches through Yangon on Monday in the biggest demonstration against Myanmar's ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests 20 years ago.
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Filled with nostalgia and perhaps a little bitterness, a few thousand people gathered Wednesday on the capital's central square to mark the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, an event that many in Ukraine say failed to live up to its bright promises.
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Thousands of Argentines rallied outside the government palace on Tuesday calling for answers one year after the disappearance of a key witness in a trial of a human rights criminal from the 1976-1983 military regime.
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Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Beirut today on the second anniversary of the assassination of the former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.
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More than 2,000 people crowded Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s commitment to peace and equality and note the importance of his legacy in this election year
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China's most outspoken media voice discusses the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre and whether it could happen again.
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Demonstrators hold placards with pictures of the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown during a rally in downtown Hong Kong Sunday. Hundreds marched in the rain to commemorate the 1989 incident in Beijing. A separate candlelight vigil marking the 18th anniversary is planned for June 4.
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As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.
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Hundreds of mourners gathered in Paris and London on Friday to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, an object of enduring fascination around the world.
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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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Fidel Castro's 80th birthday celebration kicked off on Tuesday with the ailing Cuban leader nowhere in sight but hundreds of admirers from around the world were on hand to pay homage.
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As China marks the centenary of the birth of its late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese press lavishes praise on his achievements.
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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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Ceremonies are held in Nanjing to mark 70 years since a massacre in which hundreds of thousands of Chinese died.