Goodbye, Madiba: The World Mourns Nelson Mandela (PHOTOS)
Flowers and tributes fill the streets of South Africa and beyond as the world mourns the loss of Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid hero who died peacefully at the age of 95 Thursday.
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Flowers and tributes are left on the Nelson Mandela statue on Parliament Square in London December 6, 2013. Mandela died peacefully at home at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man revered as a moral giant.
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People gather on Vilakazi Street on December 6, 2013 in Soweto, South Africa to mourn the loss of the country's anti-apartheid hero.
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Workmen unfurl a giant banner with a photo of Mandela to cover the facade of the Quai d'Orsay Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris.
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A man raises his fist in reaction to the death of South Africa's first black president at the country's embassy near Trafalgar Square in London, England.
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A Chinese security officer walks past images of Mandela at the Embassy of South Africa in Beijing, China.
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Young Indian schoolchildren hold candles and portraits of Mandela as they pay tribute to the late former South African president on hearing of his death, at a school in Ahmadabad, India.
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Australian and English cricket fans observe a minute's silence on the second day of the second Ashes cricket test match in Adelaide.
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Two women light candles and lay down flowers at the Union Buildings in the Johannesburg suburb of Houghton.
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South Africans sing as they pay tribute to their former president. Mandela, who was elected South Africa's first black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, was the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century.
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Keaton Anderson, 10, poses for a photograph for his father Dijon Anderson, of Bowie, Maryland as they visit the statue of Nelson Mandela at the South African Embassy in Washington.
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A young girl carries a with poster displaying Mandela's face and his clan name "Madiba", as she marches with others to celebrate his life in the street outside his old house in Soweto, Johannesburg. Flags were lowered to half-staff and people from black townships to mostly white, upscale suburbs to South Africa's vast rural grasslands commemorated Mandela with song, tears and prayers on Friday while pledging to adhere to the values of unity and democracy that he embodied.
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U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he makes a statement about Mandela's death at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House following South African President Jacob Zuma's announcement that the beloved leader had died at 95.
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A crying woman holds a candle and a flower outside Nelson Mandela's house in Houghton.
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The marquee of New York City's Apollo Theatre pays respect to the legendary life of Nelson Mandela.
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A poster communicates the news that Mandela, known as Tata Madiba, or the Father of the Nation, passed away quietly on the evening of December 5, 2013 at his home in Houghton with family.
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