Tongan king laid to rest after 41-year reign
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Tonga has buried King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV at a grand state funeral that brought thousands of mourners onto the streets of the Pacific nation to bid farewell to their ruler of 41 years.
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Thousands of people gathered in parks, halls and churches around New Zealand on Tuesday as the country buried Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest.
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Benazir Bhutto was  laid to rest next to her father in the family mausoleum on  Friday after the opposition leader's assassination plunged  Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests.
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Fiji's defiant military ruler declared he is the boss in the South Pacific country as the prime minister returned to the capital on Saturday, a day after his cabinet went into hiding over concerns of a coup.
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SANTIAGO -- About 5,000 supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned yesterday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses.
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Tribal chiefs wearing wreaths of green leaves opened a traditional mourning period Wednesday for the revered queen of New Zealand's indigenous Maori.
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Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, one of the world's longest reigning monarchs, dies in a New Zealand hospital.
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LOME, Togo -- The president of Togo, Africa's longest-ruling leader, died yesterday as he was being brought to Europe to be treated for a heart attack, officials said. His son was named the new leader.
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Indonesiaâs former strongman was buried with an overlay of the Javanese mysticism that, for some people, had given him the aura of a king.
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A U.S. soldier killed in Iraq who was the son of a king in this African country was buried here Saturday in a princely ceremony.
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As former Indonesian President Suharto lay dying in a Jakarta hospital last night, it seemed the nation, which he ruled with a repressive and often brutal hand for 32 years, had almost forgiven him
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Vilma Espin, the former guerrilla fighter who was communist Cuba's most politically powerful woman, was laid to rest with full military honors Friday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Monday, praying, crying and paying their respects to a man who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday he would take a "deserved rest," and urged the military leaders of the country to quickly arrange for new national elections.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of Chileans, some praying and many in tears, filed past the coffin of Augusto Pinochet on Monday as his family criticized the government for denying the former dictator a state funeral.
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NUKU'ALOFA  - His coffin carried aloft by 1,000   pallbearers dressed in grass mats, Tongan King Taufa'ahau Tupou   IV was buried on Tuesday in a ceremony combining Christian   hymn-singing and ancient Polynesian ritual.
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Police have arrested more than 700 people in connection with a deadly riot that destroyed most of Tonga's capital in November, police said Thursday.