Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee dead in Cuba
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who became an outspoken critic of Washington's Cuba policy, has died in a Havana hospital following ulcer surgery, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.
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David Mason, who reported for The Associated Press on the Suez crisis, Charles de Gaulle's rise to power and the Vietnam War in a 37-year career, has died following a long illness, his son said Wednesday. He was 85.
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A key rebel commander and fugitive from a U.S. drug trafficking indictment was killed over the weekend in an air attack on a guerrilla encampment, the Colombian military said Monday.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Abu Laith al-Libi, a top al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan who was blamed for bombing a base while Vice President Cheney was visiting last year, has been killed, according to a militant Web site.
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The Annapolis-trained submarine officer who rose to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and served as ambassador to Britain, has died at age 82
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A journalist who won national  attention with a series of later-discredited articles linking  the CIA with the spread of crack cocaine in Los Angeles has  died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Los  Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
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Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested.
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The man who was Meyer Lansky's driver and bodyguard during the Mafia's heyday in pre-Revolutionary Cuba died earlier this year, a curious footnote in a communist-run country whose past as a gambling mecca for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten.
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Ignacio Insua, a Cuban cameraman working   for Reuters Television in Havana, died on Monday of a heart   attack after suffering spine injuries in a car accident. He was   57.
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Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who found the officer who ordered his mother's death and turned that personal triumph into a relentless crusade to track down fugitive Nazis, has died at the age of 79.Comment
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was apparently poisoned in London, has died.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba severed diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday in anger at its outgoing leader  pardoning four Cuban exiles imprisoned for plotting to kill  President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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Sam Bith, a former Khmer Rouge guerrilla commander serving a life sentence for masterminding the abduction and murder of three Western tourists in 1994, died Friday, a government spokesman said. He was 74 years old.
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A Cuban exile who helped lead a group that tried for decades to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro has died. He was 88.
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Philippine troops killed a senior Islamic militant wanted by the United States after they raided his safe house in the restive south of the archipelago, officials said on Sunday.
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President Bush on Thursday mourned the recent death of Mario Chanes de Armas, who was at Fidel Castro's side in the Cuban revolution and later spent decades as a political prisoner in the leader's jails.
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A prisoner held as an "enemy combatant" at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, died Sunday of cancer, the U.S. military announced.