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Elie Wiesel, who survived the Buchenwald concentration camp, became the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, and advocated on behalf of other oppressed people, dies at 87. Ashraf Fahim reports
Speaking in 2013 at the 20th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wiesel says his generation's memory will live on in younger generations. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Official funerals are being held in Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the victims of the bombing of a camp for displaced persons on May 3, a "war crime" according to the Congolese government, which is calling for sanctions against Rwanda. IMAGES
Mourners gather at a cemetery during the funeral of the victims of a wedding hall fire in Iraq's northern town of Qaraqosh. At least 100 people were killed when a fire ripped through a crowded Iraqi wedding hall, officials said, pointing to indoor fireworks as the likely cause for the blaze that sparked a panicked stampede for the exits. IMAGES
Images show people arriving and grieving during the funeral held for the victims of Kyiv's helicopter crash. 14 were left dead after the January 18 incident, among which figures Ukraine's interior minister Denys Monastyrsky and officials from his ministry. IMAGES