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The world may be abuzz over President Barack Obama 's decision to shake the hand of Cuban leader Raul Castro at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, but the late South African president most certainly would have approved.

This looks like solid evidence that vice presidential offspring and Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney's politics and personality were set in icy stone by the time she was college-age.

President Barack Obama talks with Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt during the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela The two men were sat either side of Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and smiled as she took the snapshot of the three leaders at the FNB Stadium in Soweto.

President Obama remembered Nelson Mandela as a ''man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness, persistence and faith" at a memorial in South Africa Tuesday, which, despite rainy weather, was attended by tens of thousands, including several Hollywooders.

By The Associated Press Another round of snow is in the forecast for the mid-Atlantic region, just in time for the morning commute.

South Africans were praised for the "dignified" way in which they have commemorated the death of Nelson Mandela as the memorial service for the anti-apartheid hero got under way.

Here's a selection of quotes from the speeches at the memorial service and from mourners attending the event compiled by The Associated Press: "He touched my heart, my soul, my life and those of the millions of South Africans," said Mandela family friend Andrew Mlangeni in his opening remarks at the memorial service.

So the prime minister of Canada and his wife and three former prime ministers get on a 30-year-old plane with two former governors general, four provincial or territorial premiers, the head of the Assembly of First Nations and the leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

In this file photo, Nelson Mandela stands on March 27, 1998 behind the bars of the former cell where he spent 18 of his 27 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island.

NBC's Brian Williams is anchoring his nightly newscast from South Africa early this week, covering the world's mourning for Nelson Mandela, but he won't have some of his usual company.

Fresh off a series of scandals over his high-flying lifestyle and expensive habits, Israel's prime minister says he will skip Nelson Mandela 's funeral on Tuesday due to the high cost of the trip.

President Barack Obama and three of his predecessors, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and many European leaders are among those expected to assemble at Johannesburg's 95,000-capacity FNB Stadium, the South African government said Monday.

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The anti-apartheid leader, who died Thursday, visited the South Los Angeles church in 1990 during a historic visit to the city shortly after his release from 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa.

More than 20 members of the U.S. House, mostly Democrats, and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz will travel to South Africa to honor and commemorate former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela wasn't on life support and had many family members and doctors close by in his final hours, a family friend who was at his bedside said Sunday.

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A choir sings hymns during a special service in the honor of late South African leader Nelson Mandela at the Holy Family Church, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday Dec. 8, 2013.

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