A state funeral is taking place in Iran for around 60 people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, killed during the 12-day conflict with Israel. Coffins draped in the Iranian flag, bearing portraits of deceased commanders were flanked by large crowds near Enghelab Square in central Tehran. The conflict ended with a ceasefire earlier this...
Lakshmi Patel BBC Gujarati, Ahmedabad Samira Hussain BBC News, Ahmedabad Air India crash survivor attends funeral of brother who didn’t make it The British man who was the sole survivor of last week’s Air India plane crash has helped lay his brother to rest at a funeral in western India. Vishwashkumar Ramesh’s brother Ajay was...
After days of uncertainty and negotiations, the funeral arrangements for Zambia’s former president have been finalised. Edgar Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died 11 days ago in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. According to his family, he had left instructions that his political rival and current...
Hundreds of firefighters lined Queen’s Avenue in Bicester ahead of Ms Logan’s funeral Thousands of people gathered on Saturday morning to remember a firefighter who died alongside a colleague and a member of the public in a major blaze. Jennie Logan, 30, died in the fire at the Bicester Motion site on 15 May alongside...
PA Media Thousands of people descended on the Denbighshire village of Dyserth for Mike Peters’ funeral Thousands of fans gathered for the funeral of The Alarm’s Mike Peters on Thursday. The musician and charity fundraiser died last month aged 66 after living with cancer for 30 years, following his diagnosis of lymphoma in 1995 and...
Extinction Rebellion and other climate organizations on Saturday held a funeral for the Paris agreement’s 1.5ºC temperature target in Cambridge, England. “The mock funeral idea grew out of the need to process the enormity and sadness of this moment,” Alex Martin of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Cambridge said in a statement. “While many people are distracted...
Eve Watson BBC News, South West Jenny Hayward-Jones Jenny Hayward-Jones wanted to attend the funeral and travelled from Totnes A woman from Devon has queued from the early hours of the morning to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in Vatican City. The funeral and burial took place on Saturday with about 250,000 people in attendance around...
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Politicians and royalty joined thousands of mourners as Pope Francis’ funeral was held in St Peter’s Square. Later, huge crowds lined the streets of Rome to watch as the Pope’s coffin was carried in a procession to his final resting place, Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica. Video edited by Serene Khalifeh Read full article at source...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump have met in Rome ahead of Pope Francis’ funeral. Officials from both parties confirmed the meeting had taken place, with the White House describing it as “very productive”. No further details on the discussion have been released. Trump and Zelensky are attending the service in Vatican...
Reuters World leaders may be gathering on Saturday to pay their respects to a fellow statesman whose church has more members than their states have citizens. But they may also use the Pope’s funeral as a rare and unexpected opportunity to conduct a little impromptu diplomacy. For it will be one of the largest gatherings...
The Vatican has released the order of service ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday in St Peter’s Square. The booklet, published on the Vatican’s website, is 87 pages long and contains the service in English, Italian and Latin. There are also sections in several other languages including French and Portuguese. Thousands of...
Saturday’s three Serie A matches have been rescheduled to avoid a clash with Pope Francis’ funeral. The 88-year-old passed away on Monday, with the Vatican later confirming he died of a stroke. The Argentine’s funeral will take place in Vatican City at 09:00 BST on Saturday, 26 April. Como v Genoa and Inter Milan v...
The Prince of Wales will attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, Kensington Palace has announced. Prince William will represent the King and will join world leaders, including UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, US President Donald Trump and France’s President Macron, at the funeral service at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. King...
Pope Francis’s funeral will take place on Saturday at 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT) in front of St Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican says. The date was decided after cardinals met in Vatican City on Tuesday morning to discuss the funeral’s timing. Ahead of the funeral, Pope Francis’s body will lie in an open casket in...