HANOI — Thousands of black-clad mourners, including top Vietnamese officials, gathered in Hanoi on Thursday for the funeral of Communist party leader Nguyen Phu Trong as two days of national mourning began.
The 80-year-old, who died at a military hospital in the Vietnamese capital last week "due to old age and serious illness," was the most powerful leader the Southeast Asian country had seen in decades.
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