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Renowned wind energy campaigner and original crew member of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior ship, Steve Sawyer has died of lung cancer, the environmental group said...
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Former Spanish Socialist leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who as interior minister cracked down on armed Basque separatist group ETA, died on Friday aged 67...
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Prolific French composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and five Grammys during a career spanning more than half a century, died Saturday aged...
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Former Nigerian president Shehu Shagari, who was in power between 1979 and 1983, died Friday aged 93, the country’s current president said. “On behalf...
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Former South African foreign minister Roelof “Pik” Botha, whose long career in government straddled both the apartheid era and the presidency of Nelson Mandela,...
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Former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who died Thursday aged 93, will be remembered for declaring India a nuclear-armed state while struggling to...
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Ruud Lubbers, the longest-serving prime minister ever of the Netherlands and a former UN high commissioner for refugees, died Wednesday, the Dutch government announced....
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Amsterdam’s popular mayor Eberhard van der Laan, widely seen as the embodiment of the Dutch capital’s reputation for tolerance, has died of lung cancer...
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Dario Fo was one of the leading figures in modern farce and political theatre, whose brilliant satire earned him both a rebuke from the...
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Nobel prize-winning Egyptian chemist Ahmad Zewail, who served as a science and technology advisor to US President Barack Obama, has died in the United...