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SKorea mourns sailors killed in sinking of warship (AP)

April 26th, 2010

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak watches portraits of the deceased sailors from the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan during a memorial service held at Seoul City Hall Plaza in South Korea, Monday, April 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Jo Bo-hee) ** KOREA OUT **AP - The scent of incense filled the air Monday as South Korea’s president bowed before a memorial for young sailors killed when their warship sank last month in an…

SKorea mourns victims of ship blast (AP)

April 26th, 2010

Members of the South Korean special warfare command salute in front of the portraits of the deceased sailors from the sunken South Korean naval ship Cheonan during a memorial service at Seoul City Hall Plaza in South Korea, Sunday, April 25, 2010. The defense minister says that a torpedo attack likely has torn apart and sank a South Korean warship that went down near the tense border with North Korea last month.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - South Korea’s president Monday bemoaned the “precious deaths” of dozens of sailors killed when an explosion destroyed their warship, as suspicion increasingly fell on a North Korean torpedo…

China mourns earthquake victims (AP)

April 21st, 2010

Four-year-old girl Cairen Baji is carried by a rescue worker after they dug her and an elderly woman out from a collapsed mud house near Jiegu town in earthquake-hit Yushu county in west China's Qinghai province on Monday, April 19, 2010. Relatives kept Wujian Cuomao, 68, and Cairen Baji alive for five days by sending them food and water through gaps in the rubble with the help of bamboo poles, state broadcaster CCTV said. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - Bowing their heads in silent tribute, thousands of officials, soldiers and civilians gathered Wednesday in ceremonies across China to mourn the 2,064 victims killed in a devastating quake…

As Poland mourns, leaders ponder new election (AP)

April 14th, 2010

Mourners line up to enter the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland Wednesday, April 14, 2010 to pay there respect to the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife .Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers on a slow-moving hearse and joined an enormous viewing line at the Presidential Palace to pay their respects Tuesday to Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife as their bodies lay in state.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Lawmakers have decided to wait until after Sunday’s state funeral for President Lech Kaczynski to decide when to hold an early election to replace him.


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Poland mourns as president and wife lie in state (AP)

April 13th, 2010

People mourn as the as the coffin of Maria Kaczynska, wife of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, arrives at the Presidential palace in Warsaw, Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers at a slow-moving hearse or joined an enormous viewing line at the presidential palace to pay their respects Tuesday to Polish President…

Poland Mourns a Plane Crash That Decimates Its Government (Time.com)

April 10th, 2010

People light candles and lay flowers in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, April 10, 2010, as news broke about the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski . The Polish presidential plane with Kaczynski and wife on board crashed near the airport in Smolensk, western Russia, early morning Saturday, April 10, 2010, killing all passengers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)Time.com - The country launches a week of mourning, and says it will launch its own investigation


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Russia mourns 39 dead in Moscow subway blast (AP)

March 30th, 2010

Special operations police, officers look at a man laying flowers near one of the entrances to the Park Kultury (Park of Culture) subway station, background, hit by an explosion, Moscow, Monday, March 29, 2010. Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing tens of people and wounding many more, officials said and blamed the carnage on terrorists from the restive Caucasus region that includes Chechnya.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Russians on Tuesday nervously returned to subway stations where two suicide bombers killed 39 people, lighting candles and leaving heaps of carnations at one site as the country…

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