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...United Nations flag flew at half-staff Monday outside the organization's mostly abandoned building in downtown Beirut. The scene was not as tranquil Sunday, when thousands gathered there to protest the killing of 54 Lebanese civilians in an Israeli air strike at Qana. "Resistance, Resistance," the protestors chanted, and a few of them, armed with clubs and tools picked up from nearby construction sites, attacked the building until the crowd was calmed by Muslim clerics. The Lebanese Army watched passively. By contrast, the turnout was tiny later that night at a peaceful candle light vigil in Martyr's Square...
Flags on Yale’s campus have been lowered to half-staff in memory of the students who were killed and injured. University officials cancelled or postponed all home athletic events Friday night and convened a service after notifying students of the accident in a campus-wide e-mail Friday afternoon, students said...
...attack's aftermath, Germany declared a day of national mourning. Flags were lowered to half-staff, and church bells tolled throughout Thuringia. In Erfurt thousands crammed into a church for an interfaith memorial service held just hours after the shooting. On Saturday, students, parents and teachers gathered in front of the school, where hundreds of bouquets, candles and toys filled the steps...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) flag flew at half-staff yesterday in recognition of the death of Francis Daniels Moore ’35, Moseley professor of surgery, emeritus...
...flag flew at half-staff, class schedules were disrupted and stunned students spoke in hushed tones of the apparent suicide, the first HMS has seen in eight years...