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LIMA, September 12, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori died Wednesday at the age of 86 in Lima, 'after a long battle against cancer,' confirmed his [...]

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Byline: Abubakar Ahmadu Maishanu Mrs Yar'Adua died in Katsina late Monday after a protracted illness. The mother of former Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, Dada Yar'Adua, is dead. Mrs Yar'Adua died [...]

Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's most celebrated authors, died on Saturday at the age of 93 after a long illness. 'Our thoughts are with her family and friends, in particular [...]

Byline: By, Ewan Gleadow Royal fans have been left divided over a video of Queen Camilla 'backing away' from another state figurehead during a public event last week. Camilla was [...]

The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran's supreme leader. Mr. Raisi's death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict [...]

Byline: Washington Post staff Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protege of the country's supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the [...]

ALBAWABA - Just two days after the announcement that Syria's First Lady Asma Assad is suffering from leukemia, an alleged obituary paper of Syrian President Bashar Assad's wife was posted [...]

PARIS (AP) — Robert Badinter, who spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty, campaigned against https://apnews.com/hub/anti-semitism and Holocaust denial, and led a European body dealing with the legal fallout [...]

Byline: AnneClaire Stapleton and Tara John, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has died in a helicopter crash in Chile, Pinera's office said in a statement. [...]

Byline: AnneClaire Stapleton and Tara John, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has died in a helicopter crash in Chile, Pinera's office said in a statement. [...]

Namibian President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82, his office has said, less than three weeks after it was announced he would undergo treatment for cancer. Geingob [...]

An American dating coach-turned-blogger who was accused of pushing Kremlin propaganda in (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/ukraine) Ukraine has died in jail there, the (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/state-department) State Department has confirmed. A spokesperson for the State [...]

Amalija Knavs, mother of former first lady Melania Trump, has died. Trump announced the death on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, without disclosing the cause. Donald Trump said [...]

BERLIN, December 27, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Former German Bundestag President and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble died at 81, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said in an announcement on [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Giorgio Napolitano, the long-serving Italian president and a pillar of stability in the hurly-burly of his country's politics, most notably in 2011 when he helped guide the [...]

France: Council of Europe has issued the following news release: It is with deep regret that the Venice Commission announces the death of Professor Laszlo Solyom, former President of the [...]

BUDAPEST, October 8, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Former Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom passed away on Sunday following a long illness. Solyom 'passed after a long illness endured with great [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani army general who seized power in 1999 and ruled the Muslim-majority nation for nine tumultuous years as president before being forced from office, [...]

As Angola's president for 38 years, Mr. dos Santos ended the country's civil war. He also launched an economic boom, but it mainly benefited his family and friends. José Eduardo [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Leonid Kravchuk, a onetime Communist apparatchik who became the first president of an independent Ukraine, playing a central role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's first president and a key force in its declaration of independence from the former Soviet Union, died Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials. He was [...]

Byline: Charles Posner and Keith Johnston Hugh O'Shaughnessy engineered and oversaw efforts in Mexico to deal with corruption in a body set up by the UN and the Organization of [...]

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LUANDA, July 8, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos died Friday in Spain after an illness, the government announced here. In an official communique [...]

MEXICO CITY, June 28, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday said most of the 50 migrants found dead inside a tractor trailer in [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine's first president and a key force in its declaration of independence from the former Soviet Union, died Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials. He was [...]

KIEV, May 10, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, died at the age of 88, Ukraine's Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said on [...]