Malawi's memorials to late first lady raise eyebrows
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Malawi has pulled out the stops to mourn its late first lady, mounting a multimillion-dollar memorial roadshow that critics say is a political ploy by her embattled husband, President Bingu wa Mutharika.
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"She and the Prince of Wales could have been the best double act the country has ever had"  The mounds of flowers are long gone from the gates of Kensington Palace, but Princess Diana's presence lingers.It has been 10 years since Diana's death in a Paris car crash, when many Britons were poleaxed by grief for a vivacious and troubled woman who was at once style icon, charity worker and tabloid celebrity.The anniversary will be marked by a televised memorial service, special prayers _ and soul-searching in a country still unsure whether its sudden outpouring of emotion was a moment of madness or a fundamental softening of the stiff upper lip. Read more
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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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FOR a British Prime Minister to stay on holiday when the world is mourning more than 129,000 dead is a colossal act of disrespect.
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Ethiopia's president asks the Queen for the remains of a prince who died in Britain more than 100 years ago.
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The former President and the First Lady find a common cause
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President George W. Bush, basking in a hero's reception from Tanzania, on Tuesday commemorates one of the darkest episodes in Africa's recent history, the Rwandan genocide.
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During her recent vacation at the family ranch near Crawford, Tex., first lady Laura Bush was reading news articles about the ongoing strife in Burma, where the military government has been arresting dissidents and protesters in large numbers in recent weeks. When she returned to Washington last...
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Representatives of first families stretching back almost a half-century came to pay respect at the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson.
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Mahatma Gandhi's great-granddaughter scatters ashes in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Indian independence leader's assassination
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Thousands of women marked the 50th anniversary of a famed anti-apartheid demonstration with celebrations Wednesday soured by the reality that poverty, AIDS and crime have replaced political oppression as the scourge of South Africa.
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LUSAKA  - Presidents from three African countries laid wreaths Sunday to celebrate Zambia&#39;s 40th independence anniversary, while fighter jets flew overhead in a display of military might not seen for at least a decade.
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Hundreds of people cheered, clapped and snapped pictures Saturday in the presence of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, but most of the praise was not for the leader of the west African nation. Instead, it was for the hundreds of graduates of North Cobb High School&#039;s Class of 2006, including Sirleaf&#039;s granddaughter, Jenelle Elsa Sirleaf.
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Princes William and Harry hope a memorial concert will remind people of the "amazing things" their mother did.
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Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo dedicated a plaque here in memory of Filipino and American soldiers who died fighting side-by-side in wars of the Pacific.
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The wife of reggae star Bob Marley said Wednesday that she plans to exhume his remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his "spiritual resting place," Ethiopia.
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Nigeria's president paid tribute Wednesday to a colonial-era burial ground for blacks in lower Manhattan, a visit he said was intended to unite blacks from Africa and America who "have been separated in spirit for far too long."