Mourning Nelson Mandela (PHOTOS)
The world commemorates the life and death of South Africa's great anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela.
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Guests attending the funeral service for former South African President Nelson Mandela take cell phone photos and watch as Mandela's casket is taken to its burial place in Qunu.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, right, Nelson Mandela's former wife, and Nelson Mandela’s widow Graca Machel, centre, walk from the funeral service to the burial site of former South African president.
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A girl looks on as former South African President Nelson Mandela's coffin is taken to the family gravesite for burial at his ancestral village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape province, 900 km (559 miles) south of Johannesburg.
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The coffin of South African former president Nelson Mandela is carried on a gun carrier for a traditional burial during his funeral in Qunu on December 15, 2013. South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday, followed by a traditional burial attended by family and friends.
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People watch the big screens at the site where former South African President Nelson Mandela will be buried on his family's property in his childhood village.
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A group of people stand on a rock overlooking the funeral service of the former South African President Nelson Mandela during his state funeral on December 15, 2013 in Qunu.
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A couple hugs holding a south african flag near the funeral site of South African former president Nelson Mandela.
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Villagers at a public viewing point react while watching Nelson Mandela's body being moved to its final resting place on a large broadcast screen from a nearby hill top in Qunu.
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A family watch a television showing the funeral service of former South African President Nelson Mandela at their home in the Soweto township.
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Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela, left, watches as military soldiers stand at attention over former South African President Madela's casket before his burial in his home village of Qunu, South Africa.
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People queue to see the casket of Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, where his body lies in state for three days. Each morning his remains will be transported from the mortuary to the government buildings.
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Navy officers guard the coffin of former South African President Nelson Mandela during the lying in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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People queue to catch a bus to see the remains of Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Mourners dance after waiting for hours to get into a bus to go to the Union Buildings.
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Photographs of former South African President Nelson Mandela and current President Jacob Zuma, top two on left, are used in picture frames for sale in a photo processing store in Pretoria, South Africa.
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A choir sings at the Anglican Saint George's Church in Singapore at a mass. The church service was attended by members of the diplomatic community in Singapore .
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A mourner wearing a badge bearing the image of former President Nelson Mandela, waits with others to go to the Union Buildings.
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Vice President Joe Biden delivers a tribute during the National Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela at the National Cathedral in Washington.
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People at the tribute concert to Madiba in Cape Town, South Africa.
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FC Barcelona and Celtic CF's players pose with a banner in honor of Nelson Mandela "Madiba" before their Champions League soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.
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The body of Nelson Mandela is transported to the Union Buildgings Pretoria, South Africa.
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Onlookers chant and sing as Mandela's procession makes its way through the streets of Pretoria.
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A soldier guards a closed road as military escorts accompany the funeral cortege carrying Mandela's coffin.
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South African mourners hold posters of Nelson Mandela while chanting slogans and singing tributes to the national hero, as the convoy transporting his body passes by.
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People react as the cortege carrying the coffin of former South African President Nelson Mandela passes through the city center of Pretoria.
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A young man kneels on the street shortly after the funeral cortege.
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A flame burns near a portrait of Mandela at the Mandela Museum in Qunu.
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In addition to government officials from around the world, members of the public attended the Nelson Mandela memorial service at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. Not even the rain could hinder attendence, with the stadium quickly filling to capacity.
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President Barrack Obama gestures as he speaks on stage during the memorial service for anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. The crowd erupted into cheers as Obama took the stage. Thanking South Africa for sharing Mandela with the world, President Obama stated, "His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph ... your democracy is his cherished legacy."
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A mourner kisses a poster with Mandela's image during the memorial service for the former president at the FNB Stadium. President Jacob Zuma was not welcomed with the same reverence, but consistantly booed during the proceedings.
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A family watches an address by Barack Obama during the official memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg.
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South Africans hold covers of the Afrikaans daily Beeld inside Orlando Stadium in Soweto as they take part in a retransmission of the memorial service.
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Flowers and candles are seen in the snow around pictures of Nelson Mandela outside the South-African embassy in Oslo, Norway.
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Pakistani kids hold placards during a rally in Islamabad to pay respect and tribute to Nelson Mandela.
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As South Africa prepares for a week of mourning after the death of esteemed statesman Nelson Mandela, admirers around the world pay tribute in their own small ways. Here, activists hold a candlelight vigil in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
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A woman weeps amid a sea of bouquets sent to the house where Mandela died on December 5, 2013.
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Churchgoers wait for a memorial service for Mandela at the Regina Mundi Church in Soweto, which under apartheid was a potent symbol for the poverty and entropy engendered by the country's strict policy of racial segregation.
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Tehran, Iran: Citizens living under one of the world's most repressive regimes gather in front of the South African embassy to honor a freedom fighter half a world away.
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A Johannesburg street vendor busks buttons with pictures of Mandela during South Africa's week of mourning.
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Schoolchildren in Jammu, India, perform a prayer ceremony for Mandela.
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