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South Africans mourn as Mandela buried.

The EU suspends talks with Ukraine.

South Africans said their final goodbyes Sunday to Nelson Mandela, who was laid to rest in his ancestral village of Qunu.

Musical and spoken tributes highlighted the state funeral.

VOA's Scott Bobb reports.

Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday among the hills of his ancestral homeland, eulogized by friends, family and admirers.

His longtime friend, Ahmed Kathrada, called Mandela his older brother and moved the 4,500 participants with memories from the decades of struggle against apartheid and prison.

"The last time I saw Madiba alive was when I visited him in hospital.  I was filled with an overwhelming sadness and emotion and I cried.  He held my hand and it was profoundly heart-breaking and it brought out all the emotions in me,"

Scott Bobb VOA News QUNU, SOUTH AFRICA.

Military officers, both black and white, rolled Mr. Mandela's flag-draped coffin to the family burial plot where a select number of guests took part in a graveside ceremony. Mr. Mandela's body was lowered into the grave after a 21-gun salute and a flyover by military helicopters and planes.

The service ended a 10-day period of tributes and mourning for Mr. Mandela, South Africa's first black president.

Chileans have handed moderate socialist former President Michelle Bachelet a new four-year term with a landslide victory in a runoff election.

Center-right opponent Evelyn Matthei conceded defeat after Sunday's results showed Ms. Bachelet received an unbeatable 62 percent of the vote.

Ms. Bachelet has promised to raise corporate taxes to pay for wide-ranging education reform, shred the dictatorship-era constitution and legalize abortion under certain circumstances.

She will take over in March from outgoing conservative President Sebastian Pinera.

At least eight people were killed in Bangladesh in clashes between police and rioting activists of an Islamic party who were protesting the execution of one of their leaders.

Police said the rioters torched houses and fought running street battles with officers in towns and cities during a third day of unrest since the execution of Abdul Quader Mollah for war crimes.

The United Nations has started to deliver humanitarian aid by air into Syria from northern Iraq.

Following weather delays, a cargo plane carrying food took off Sunday from the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan for a one-hour flight into northeastern Syria.

The U.N. World Food Program says food being sent during the next 12 days should be enough to feed more than 6,000 Syrian families for the rest of this month.

About 200,000 pro-European protesters gathered Sunday in the Ukrainian capital against President Viktor Yanukovych's outreach to Russia. At the same time the European Union indicated it is suspending association with Kyiv.

The EU took the action after President Yanukovych failed to sign a trade cooperation deal. The EU told Ukraine they halted the discussion to require a clear commitment to sign the agreement.

Demonstrators were reassured of continued U.S. backing by visiting Senators John McCain, who threatened sanctions if authorities use more violence to break up the protests.

A security official in Yemen says attackers repeatedly stabbed a Japanese diplomat in the capital of Sanaa in an apparent failed kidnapping attempt.

The kidnappers attacked the unidentified diplomat on Sunday not far from the Japanese Embassy.

The victim is hospitalized and is expected to recover.

British actor Peter O'Toole, who shot to instant stardom in the movie‘Lawrence of Arabia’has died at the age of 81 following a long illness.

Peter O'Toole was nominated eight times for an Academy Award,but never one.That's a Hollywood record.He accepted an honorary Oscar in 2003