As friends and relatives mounted vigil at the house until Mr. Abdullah's funeral on Friday, sipping thimble-sized cups of unsugared coffee, high-ranking Palestinian officials said the shooting boded ill for the peace talks.
The country's main television news channels offer live coverage of every twist and turn, while members of Parliament with dubious expense claims elbow their way past television crews and newspaper reporters mounting vigils outside their homes.
Protestors are now mounting a vigil outside Kensal Rise Library, the only one of the closed libraries in Brent that hasn't yet been emptied.
Marisela Escobedo was killed on Dec. 16 as she mounted a vigil demanding the arrest of the man who confessed to killing her daughter Rubí.
Or at least, he should have done.Mr Zuma's supporters have mounted a vigil in front of the court building for the duration of his trial, chanting for their champion and hurling verbal abuse at his accuser.
The parade, including a loudly cheered group of Gurkhas, marched briskly without registering another small group of Gurkhas who have been mounting a vigil at the feet of the towering statue of Monty, Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery, for the past fortnight.
Those charges had led directly to his sacking as the country's deputy president last June.Mr Zuma's supporters, who had mounted a vigil outside the court ahead of the decision, were ecstatic, and there was much singing, dancing and cheering outside the Johannesburg High Court.
Starting next year, women who were at Greenham, as well as those now mounting a vigil at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire (the US 'listening post' for their Star Wars project) and women from other peace camps are planning a year-long protest at Faslane base in the west of Scotland, home of the Trident submarines.
Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Arkhangelsk was bombed by the Luftwaffe, and Shanina and other townspeople were involved in firefighting and mounted voluntary vigils on rooftops to protect the kindergarten.
The protests largely fizzled, however, with fewer than 300 demonstrators mounting a noisy vigil outside the conference center in a drizzling rain.
Earlier in the day, an anti-war vigil mounted separately by the First World War Peace Forum, including Pax Christi, the Quakers, and the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) was mounted on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London's Trafalgar Square.
