21.   Thousands of students have rallied to commemorate the deaths of three students during days of rioting in Ujungpandang a year ago, press reports said here Friday.

22.   Several hundred anti-racist demonstrators including former socialist labor minister Martine Aubry commemorated the death of Brahim Bouraam on Sunday in a silent march to the site where he drowned.

23.   Seven to eight million Shiites perform the pilgrimage to Kerbala every year to commemorate the death of Imam Hussein, Ibrahim added.

24.   The deadlock forced local Orthodox Christians to flock to other churches to mark Good Friday, commemorating the death of Jesus, after the basilica was closed off.