Machel, Mandela's third wife who he married on his 80th birthday, said the messages "from South Africans, Africans across the continent, and thousands more from across the world" had lightened "the burden of anxiety" and brought "love, comfort and hope."
The news comes as Britain begins hosting the G8 summit, which will likely be the backdrop of some hard questions about the reaches of surveillance by the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters and its American counterpart, the National Security Agency.
NEW DELHI — Indian politics are in for a major shake-up after a powerful regional party pulled out of the country's main opposition coalition, less than a year before the next general election.
New data from India's National Crime Records Bureau revealed that victims knew their rapist in the majority of reported rape cases, shedding light on an assault epidemic that has elicited considerable international attention in the past few months.
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