World says goodbye to Queen Elizabeth from cafes, consulates

HONG KONG/SYDNEY --- In Hong Kong, hundreds kept up with Queen Elizabeth's funeral on their phones as they queued for hours to pay their tributes. In Sydney, Australia, customers packed into pubs to watch the ceremony on screens. And in Paris, France, bar owner Thibaud Dupont showed off his new tattoo of the monarch on his forearm. "She was not our queen, but she reigned over Britain for 70 years. The only other one that reigned longer was Louis XIV. And so that's a common history," he told Reuters. Across the globe, crowds gathered outside British embassies and consulates and at cafes, bars, and other public places to bear witness to the pageantry unfurling thousands of mil...

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