Mourners Bid Farewell to U.S. Rep. Matsui
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Hundreds of people gathered Saturday to mourn U.S. Rep. Robert T. Matsui, recalling how he rose from immigrant roots to serve in Congress for 26 years.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Nov 02 (SADA) - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Monday expressed his shock and grief over the killing of Shosei Koda by his captors in Iraq.
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NAUDERO, Pakistan  - Thousands of mourners wept and beat their heads in grief as the body of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's slain former prime minister, was carried out of her ancestral home on her funeral procession on Friday.
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Family, colleagues and supporters marched Friday in a mass funeral procession for a slain Lebanese lawmaker
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Thousands of mourners gathered in Auckland on Tuesday to bid farewell to New Zealand's national hero Edmund Hillary, the first man to stand atop Mount Everest, at a rare state funeral.
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Presidents and dignitaries from more than  50 countries say a last farewell on Friday to late Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat in Egypt, his second home and one of his  closest allies in years of struggle for a homeland.
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As politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying to come to terms with what her death means for their homeland
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TOKYO -- Every morning for the last three months, Yuko Tojo has prayed at a war shrine for Japan's fallen soldiers, including her grandfather, General Hideki Tojo, the executed World War II prime minister who ordered the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, Monday paid tribute to the &quot;brave souls&quot; killed in Tiananmen Square on the 18th anniversary of China&#39;s crackdown on democracy activists.
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Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects Sunday to Princess Kikuko, the emperor&#39;s aunt who was seen as one of the most progressive members of Japan&#39;s tradition-bound royal family.
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Allegations of a vicious dogfighting ring prompted an unusually emotional speech in the Capitol yesterday, as the Senate's longest-serving member fought tears and called for God's judgment on those who promote such activities.
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Hundreds of mourners paid their final respects Tuesday to a college student killed by a pepper-spray pellet fired by police during raucous celebrations after the Boston Red Sox won the American League pennant.
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Democratic Rep. Robert T. Matsui of California, who spent time in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as an infant during World War II and went on to serve 26 years in Congress, has died of complications from a rare disease, his family said Sunday.
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US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns expressed sorrow Monday at the suicide of Japan&#39;s farm minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka, who had been embroiled in a political funding scandal.
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TOKYO - A House of Representatives lawmaker belonging to a lawmakers&#39; group supporting abductees and their relatives said Monday the Japanese delegation that returned to Tokyo from Pyongyang earlier in the day brought bones believed those of Megumi
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Tom Daschle bade his fellow Senate Democrats farewell Tuesday with a plea that they seek common ground with Republicans yet continue to fight for the less fortunate.
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Hundreds of mourners marched in Beirut on Thursday behind the coffin of an anti-Syrian Lebanese legislator killed in a car bomb attack that increased tension with Damascus and deepened Lebanon's political crisis.