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An international human rights group condemned Myanmar's junta Saturday for sentencing 19 people to die, in the first known use of the death penalty since the military seized power.
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Sarajevo -
Former Bosnian army general Jovan Divjak, who defended Sarajevo during an infamous 44-month siege, died on Thursday in the Bosnian capital aged 84, his organisation said.
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Dar Es Salaam -
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Saturday led mourners in paying their last respects to her predecessor John Magufuli, who died suddenly this week after an illness shrouded in mystery.
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Dar Es Salaam -
Tanzanian President John Magufuli died Wednesday aged 61 from a heart condition, his vice president said, after more than five years of divisive, authoritarian rule capped by his refusal to take Covid-19 seriously.
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Dar Es Salaam -
Tanzanian President John Magufuli died Wednesday aged 61 from a heart condition, his vice president said, after more than five years of divisive, authoritarian rule capped by his refusal to take Covid-19 seriously.
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Johanesburg -
Goodwill Zwelithini, the controversial but revered king of the Zulus, South Africa's largest ethnic group, died Friday aged 72 after weeks in hospital for a diabetes-related illness, the royal palace announced.
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Nairobi -
At least 20 people drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard during a crossing between Djibouti and Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday.
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Brisbane -
An Australian teenager has died after a suspected box jellyfish sting, authorities said Thursday, in a rare case believed to be the country's first such death in 15 years.
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Damascus -
Lebanese militant Anis Naccache, an accomplice of the notorious Carlos the Jackal, died Monday of coronavirus in a Damascus hospital at the age of 70, Syrian state media said.Naccache took part in the 1975 OPEC conference hostage-taking in Vienna.
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Buenos Aires -
Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was buried Monday in a ceremony with military honors in a Buenos Aires Islamic cemetery next to his late son.
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Islamabad -
A Bulgarian mountaineer fell to his death during an expedition on Pakistan's K2, his team said Friday, the second person to die on the world's second highest mountain in weeks.
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Islamabad -
A missing Russian-American climber died on a mountain while preparing to scale the world's 12th-highest peak, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, a spokesman for the expedition said Tuesday.
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Paris -
The onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, which has left nearly two million people dead, has seen Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh worshippers seek solace in prayer.
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Los Angeles -
US country music star Charley Pride, a pioneering Black singer who racked up 29 number one hits, died Saturday of Covid-19 complications. He was 86.Pride's family confirmed his death in a statement, saying he had passed away in Dallas, Texas.
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Montevideo -
Tabare Vazquez, who twice served as Uruguay's president and was a champion in the fight against smoking, died Sunday at the age of 80 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.
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Buenos Aires -
Stunned Argentines were plunged into grief Wednesday by the death of the country's favorite son Diego Maradona, a sublimely gifted sporting hero they saw as "the most human of Gods.
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Buenos Aires -
Huge crowds bade a grief-filled adieu Thursday to Argentina's favorite son Diego Maradona before he was buried on the outskirts of the capital after a farewell that at times descended into chaos.
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Prague -
Crematoriums in the Czech Republic are bursting at the seams as the coronavirus death toll soars, placing the country at the top of Europe's grim statistics.
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London -
Legendary actor Sean Connery, famous for playing the original on-screen James Bond, has died at the age of 90, prompting an outpouring of tributes for one of Britain's best-loved film heroes.
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Vienna -
Even in midst of a deadly pandemic, the Viennese seek to look death straight in the eye -- an attitude on display at a morbidly humourous museum devoted to death and burial.
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Paris -
The five percent of people in Britain predicted by a new tool to be at highest risk from Covid-19 accounted for three-quarters of deaths during the first wave of the pandemic, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Los Angeles -
Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose group is considered one of the greatest rock bands of all time, died on Tuesday following a long battle with cancer, his son announced.
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Los Angeles -
Eddie Van Halen, of the legendary hard rock group that bore his family name, died on Tuesday following a long battle with cancer, his son announced.
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Buenos Aires -
Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado, who created the beloved comic strip Mafalda, has died aged 88, his publisher announced Wednesday.
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Buenos Aires -
Argentine cartoonist Joaquin Salvador Lavado, creator of the comic strip Mafalda, has died aged 88, his publisher Daniel Divinsky announced Wednesday. "Quino has died.
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London -
Police across Britain on Friday paid silent tribute and flags were flown at half mast after a long-serving officer became the first to be shot dead in the line of duty in more than eight years.
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Lyon -
A terminally ill Frenchman who planned to live stream his death on social media has accepted palliative care after refusing food and medication for over three days.
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Wide -
Families in a mountainous community on Indonesia's Sulawesi island dig up their mummified relatives every three years, clean them and dress them in their favourite clothes to honour their spirits.
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A supermarket chain in Brazil apologized Wednesday for its handling of an employee's death at one of its stores, which covered the man's body with boxes and umbrellas and remained open for business.
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Sydney -
The owner of Australia's biggest theme park announced Tuesday it was facing charges over the deaths of four people on a popular water ride in 2016.
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Death Image
It has always been thought that drinking shortened your life span. But studies now show that moderate drinkers live longer than people who abstain from drinking. chelsea
The body of Ronnie Smith is pictured in the morgue at Benghazi Medical Center in Benghazi With permission by Reuters//Esam Omran Al-Fetori
Big crowds in Memphis. For the vigil alone, 75,000, it as noted. Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc.
The Alma tunnel in Paris, where Princess Diana died Erik1980
Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica. Ecumenical Necropolis Memorial in Santos
Indiana Bones, aka Indy, is the Los Angeles County Coroners Department first cadaver dog. With his trainer, Investigator Renee Grand Prix, Indy is dispatched to crime scenes where he sniffs out evidence. John Vande Wege
You can now eliminate Illinois from this death penalty map By crankyyankee1776
Old grave in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cemetery in China. Faungg's photo
The Capitol building of Texas
Photograph of graves on the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, Beijing, China. Taken 8 January 2012 Author Rolfmueller
Photo of cover of Death & Life of American Journalism by Robert McChesney and John Nichols.
The widows waiting at the Fairmont Mine Disaster in 1907 Mine Safety and Health Administration of Dept of Labor
“Dr. Chas. Drew, Blood Bank Founder, Killed,” Detroit Tribune (Detroit, MI), April 8, 1950. Library of Congress
The eternal struggle of the parking lot could be remedied by innovative solutions like Rover. Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The Aeternal is a futuristic hearse created to offer a luxurious and high-tech burial. Lunatic Koncepts
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FAMILY: The young gorilla on the right, Hasani, is the brother of Habibe, the gorilla who died Nov. 7 in an accident at San Francisco Zoo. Daniel Ramirez/Wikimedia Commons
Arrest photo of Joshua Komisarjevsky. www.ct.gov/
Princess Diana's coffin borne through the streets of London Paddy Briggs
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