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Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour. Queen Elizabeth II’s...
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Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour. – 1952: King...
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Yet another phone call comes in for Artur Palma, who is straining to cope with all the bodies piling up at his suburban Lisbon...
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Even in midst of a deadly pandemic, the Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye — an attitude on display at a...
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Undertakers clad in canary-yellow protective suits lowered the coffin into the cold soil as a mechanical digger waited nearby to smother the grave. Still...
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The coffins are sealed directly at the hospital morgue near the tiny Italian town of Revello on the French border. Everyone in Revello understands...
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In normal times, this mortuary in a northwestern corner of Paris receives two or three corpses per day. But the mounting coronavirus death toll...
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No one can escape Argentina’s biggest economic crisis in almost two decades — not even the dead. The cost of buying, renting and maintaining...
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The government of Iraq’s Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi ended Sunday after two months of violent unrest that has left more than 420 people...
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They wailed and clutched white roses, praying for their dead — families of two cousins who were among 39 Vietnamese found in a truck...