Vichy collaborator and war crimes culprit Papon dead at 96
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Maurice Papon, the French Nazi collaborator who died at the age of 96, became the symbol of bureaucratic inhumanity after he was convicted for helping organise the deportation of Jews during the Vichy era.
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Maurice Papon was a prominent French functionary convicted in 1998 of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity during the German occupation in World War II.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday. He was 76.
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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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An 86-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect faces 164 counts of murder for his alleged part in the killings of Slovak civilians in three villages in early 1945, in what could be one of Germany's last World War II-era trials.
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JERUSALEM - Masked Palestinian gunmen killed a suspected collaborator in a public square in Tulkarem in the West Bank yesterday, throwing the bound man from their vehicle and shooting him before hundreds of schoolchildren and other onlookers, witnesses
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Josef Schwammberger, a former Nazi labor-camp commander who was known for his particular sadism and hid for 40 years in Argentina before being captured and returned to Germany for trial, has died in a prison hospital. He was 92.
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Maurice Papon, the only French Nazi  official to be convicted for his role in the deportation of  Jews during World War Two, has died at the age of 96, police  sources said on Saturday.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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Maurice Papon, who was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died, his lawyer said Saturday. He was 96.
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died in France on Thursday, his  dream of a Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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The son of Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, Brahim Deby, was killed Monday in the car park of his apartment building in the Paris region, a source close to the investigation said.
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AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 26 -- George Habash, whose radical PLO faction gained notoriety after the simultaneous hijackings of four Western airliners in 1970 and the seizure of an Air France flight to Entebbe, Uganda, died Saturday in Jordan. He was 81.
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French adjutant-chief Eugene Rouges died with several of his men when a German artillery shell exploded in their trench, on Nov. via PR-inside.com
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French actor Philippe Noiret, best-known for his role in "Cinema Paradiso", dies in France at the age of 76.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski - a wartime Polish underground courier and post-war radio broadcaster dies aged 91.
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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose  trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died,  French television said on Thursday. He was 76.