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Nelson Mandela has been laid to rest in South Africa's eastern Cape where he grewup.Friends,family and political leaders paid final tributes to him at the state funeral,rememberingthe qualities that turned a young activist into the world's most famous political prisoner andlater his country's first democratically elected president.From the village of Quru,MikeWooldridge reports.
For its most celebrated leader,South Africa has staged the biggest state funeral in itshistory.One of Nelson Mandela's granddaughters Nandi paid tribute to the man whose principalregrets about going to prison for 27 years was that he missed so much of a family life.
We shall miss your voice as you told us stories of your childhood.We shall miss your laughter.
In the most emotional tribute of all,Ahmed Kathrada in prison with Nelson Mandela on RobbenIsland said his life was now in a void.President Jacob Zuma pledged to continue promoting non-racialism,reconciliation,forgiveness and the other values for which Nelson Mandela wasrenowned.
Some 200,000 opposition supporters have converged on Independence Square in theUkrainian capital Kiev,demanding the resignation of the President Victor Yanukovych.It's thelatest protest over the government's refusal to sign a deal on closer integration with theEuropean Union.The US senator John McCain was cheered when he told crowds thatWashington supported them.
Ukraine will make Europe better and Europe will make Ukraine better,to all Ukrainians, Americastands with you.
The polls have now closed in Chile where people have been voting for a new president.Thesocialist candidate Michelle Bachelet's seen as the favorite.She found as short of the outrightmajority she needed in the first round.The electoral authorities say the turnout appears tohave been low despite repeated calls by both candidates for people to vote.
France says President Francois Hollande will not attend the opening ceremony of the 2014Winter Olympics in Russia,nor will any other top French official.The announcement was madeby the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in a radio interview,but he did not elaborate onthe reasons,unless,he said the Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated his personalprestige on staging a successful Olympics in an effort to showcase his country.
A human rights group in Saudi Arabia says one of its members has been sentenced to 4 yearsin prison and 300 lashes for calling for great democracy.Omar al-Saeed,he's the latest memberof the Saudi civil and political rights association to be jailed as the authorities continued theircampaign against the group.
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The German Chancellor Angela Merkal has appointed the country's first female defenceminister,she's Ursula von der Leyen,currently labor minister and a mother of seven.ChancellorMerkal was unveiling her new cabinet after the center-left Social Democrats voted to join agrand coalition with her center-right bloc.Stephen Evans reports from Berlin.
The headline may be the appointment of Germany's first Defence Minister Ursula von derLeyen,but other appointments may be more significant in terms of policy.She's unlikely to beany less reluctant on her male predecessor to get the German military involved abroad.Interms of the policy the big change may be the new foreign minister from the SocialDemocrats:Frank-Walter Steinmeier,the SPD is thought to be a keener on reaching anaccommodation with Russia despite concerns about President Putin's record on civil rights.
The Public Prosecutors' Office in the Brazilian city of Manaus has demanded the immediatesuspension of building work of the World Cup football stadium where construction workerwas killed on Saturday.The worker plunged more than 30 meters to his death from a roof.Theauthorities say the working conditions are unacceptably dangerous and the urgency to finish intime for next year's tournament connot cause more lives.
The actor Peter O'Toole who shot to fame in an Oscar winning film Lawrence of Arabiahasdied,he was 81,a mesmerizing and versatile actor.O'Toole was nominated for Oscar 8 times forroles ranging form Henry II and Becket to an alcoholic journalist in Jeffrey Bernad isUnwell.Although,he never won any of those,he accepted an Honorary Oscar in 2003 when hewas given a standing ovation.
Always a bridesmaid,never a bride my foot.I have my very own Oscar now to be with me tilldeath do us apart. 【不要走开，精彩内容请看下一页】
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