Date set for Zhao Ziyang funeral
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The funeral of China's purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang is due to be held on Saturday.
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BEIJING (CP) - Conservative MP Jason Kenney paid his respects Friday at the home of Zhao Ziyang, the late Communist party leader purged for showing too much sympathy for the Tiananmen Square protesters in 1989.
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Zhao Ziyang was stripped of power for supporting students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
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City workers on Saturday prepared for the body of Mayor Bob O'Connor to lie in state, a day after the city leader died from a rare form of brain cancer at age 61.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy demonstrations, is in hospital, the government and sources close to the family said Tuesday.
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MATESIH, Indonesia  - Tens of thousands of people lined the roads around Indonesia's royal city of Solo on Monday as the body of autocratic former president Suharto arrived for a state funeral at the family's mausoleum.
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SYDNEY : Australian cricketing legend Keith Miller will be given a state funeral next week after passing away at the age of 84, officials said.
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China will hold a memorial for ousted Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang at its main cemetery for revolutionary heroes but it hasn't been decided whether he will be buried there, a relative said Thursday.
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The Chinese authorities will hold a low-key funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, the purged Communist Party chief.
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The family of purged Communist Party  chief Zhao Ziyang has decided to forgo a state funeral, sparing  China's leaders a sensitive decision on whether to hold a  high-profile ceremony that they fear could trigger protests.
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China's Communist Party is due to wrap  up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang  Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a  historic leadership succession.
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Yasser Arafat will get a military funeral  in Egypt on Friday before burial in the smashed West Bank  compound where he spent his final years encircled by the  Israeli army without realizing his dream of a Palestinian  state.
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China's state newspapers stuck closely  to script on Sunday, printing only the official news agency's  report on the cremation of former leader Zhao Ziyang, purged  for opposing the use of force to end protests in 1989.
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Ordinary Chinese bade farewell Wednesday to Zhao Ziyang as security agents watched, filing past a black-draped portrait of the late Communist Party leader in the villa where he spent 15 years under house arrest after being ousted for sympathizing with democracy activists.
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Palestinians prepare for the funeral and burial of their veteran leader as officials warn of his imminent death.
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The country's Communist leadership convened a series of emergency meetings to manage the consequences of the death of Zhao Ziyang and confront the legacy of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
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The following dignitaries are expected at Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo on Friday, according to Palestinian and Egyptian planners and other officials.