INQUIRER.net: World celebrates ailing Mandela’s 95th birthday

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World celebrates ailing Mandela's 95th birthday Jul 16th 2013, 03:11 JOHANNESBURG—Global celebrations and charity events will mark Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday Thursday, but the critically ill anti-apartheid hero himself may still be confined to his Pretoria hospital bed on life-support.   Volunteers will spend 67 minutes on hundreds of community upliftment projects -- a minute for every year of his activism.   But his hospitalization for a recurring lung infection and bitter infighting among his relatives have tempered the festive spirit.   The United Nations in 2010 declared the Nobel peace laureate's birthday Mandela Day -- to encourage people around the world to do just over an hour of good deeds.   ... Keep on reading: World celebrates ailing Mandela’s 95th birthday Media files: Mandela1.jpg (image/jpeg)

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