Family, friends bid farewell to Stephen Hawking

CAMBRIDGE, Mar 31 (AFP): Friends, family and colleagues of Stephen Hawking gathered Saturday to pay their respects at his private funeral in Cambridge, where the British science great spent most of his extraordinary life.Hawking, who died on March 14 at the age of 76, was famously an atheist but his...

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Palestinians bury their bodies with calls for revenge

GAZA CITY, Mar 31 (AFP): Gazans buried their dead on Saturday with calls for "revenge" a day after a major demonstration led to clashes that saw Israeli forces kill 16 Palestinians in the bloodiest day since a 2014 war.But while anger seethed over Friday's events, only several hundred protesters had...

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