* Poland: A national week of mourning has been declared in the wake of a Saturday plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and 95 others.
* Thailand: At least fifteen protestors died in Bangkok during clashes between police and anti-government protestors.
* U.S.: The death toll rose to 29 due to a West Virginia mine explosion described as the worst coal mining accident in forty years.
* South Africa: The funeral was held for infamous white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche who was killed in a pay dispute with two of his workers.
Image – Los Angeles Times (“Mourners stand amid a flood of candles and flowers outside the presidential palace in Warsaw.”)
Online Sources- MSNBC, BBC News, CNN, Voice of America
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Weekend World Watch: Mourning in Poland
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accident,
Eugene Terreblanche,
Lech Kaczynski,
mining,
Poland,
protest,
South Africa,
Thailand,
violence,
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it's a time where people from across the world grant prayer request to intentions...it goes to show that in bad times, people get together and mourn together
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