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Images show crowds paying tribute to the late Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP, the Traditional Prime Minister of the Zulu Monarch and Nation. Mourners wearing black or sporting Zulu warrior headbands, stream into a small stadium in Ulundi, the ancient capital of the Zulu kingdom and IFP heartland, for the funeral. IMAGES
Members of the public lay flowers to honour assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe, as thousands of Japanese and foreign dignitaries gather in Tokyo on Tuesday at a rare state funeral that has sparked controversy and protest. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Vietnam during a tour of Asia to attend the funeral of late communist leader Nguyen Phu Trong, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller announces during his press briefing. SOUNDBITE
Several hundred of people gather in Arras, northeastern France, to pay tribute to Dominique Bernard, the French teacher who was stabbed to death on Friday in his high school by a radicalized former student. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden arrives in Vietnam for a two-day visit to deepen cooperation between the two nations, in the face of China's growing ambitions in the region. IMAGES
Hundreds of protesters against the state funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gather in a street near the Nippon Budokan ahead of the state funeral. Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was shot dead on July 8 while campaigning, and a publicly funded state funeral honouring him will be held on September 27. IMAGES