N. Korean Leader's Mistress Reported Dead
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A mistress of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il &#151; whose son with him is considered a possible successor &#151; has died of an illness, according to media reports.
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A suspected militant leader died of heart failure and not under torture, says Kuwait's interior minister.
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North Korean media have dropped most laudatory references to leader Kim Jong-il, just days after reports that his portrait had been removed from some public places, an analyst at Radiopress, a Japanese news agency that monitors North Korean media, said on Wednesday.
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A Vietnamese spy who worked for the CIA and Western media while remaining a communist agent dies.
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South Korean government officials are struggling to confirm persistent reports from North Korea of the recent death of its leader Kim Jong Il&#39;s favorite mistress, a former
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One of the 14 sailors missing from a cargo ship that sank off South Korea's south coast last week was found dead Saturday, the Coast Guard said.
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U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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The Air Force's second-highest-ranking procurement official was found dead Sunday night at his Virginia home in an apparent suicide, an internal Air Force memo said.
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KUWAIT CITY -- The alleged ringleader of an anti-American terrorist group died of heart failure nine days after he was detained, the government said yesterday, raising questions over whether he was tortured.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has  visited a military unit, the country's official KCNA news  agency reported Wednesday, just hours after reports surfaced  that his portrait had been removed from some public places.
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TOKYO - A Japanese civilian taken hostage in Iraq by militants has been killed, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday, citing Japanese government officials.
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The alleged top al-Qaida operative in Lebanon, who was arrested 10 days ago after authorities uncovered a plot to bomb embassies of Italy and Ukraine, and kill diplomats, died of a heart attack Monday, hospital officials and the Interior Ministry said.
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An al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq has confirmed the death of Abu Maysara, a top operative who the U.S. military said was killed in a clash last month, according to a recording posted on the Web on Saturday.
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A senior Al-Qaeda leader in  Afghanistan, described by Western authorities as one of Osama  bin Laden's top six lieutenants, has been killed, U.S.  officials and an al-Qaeda-linked Web site said on Thursday.
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A Japanese civilian taken hostage in Iraq by militants has been killed, Kyodo News agency reported Saturday, citing a member of Japan's ruling party. But national broadcaster NHK said the government was still trying to confirm the information.
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The Philippine military is verifying reports that Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group leader Khadaffy Janjalani was killed in an aerial assault in the southern Philippines, a local television reported Monday.
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A Chinese engineer held hostage by al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan was killed on Thursday but his colleague was rescued in a commando assault that killed their five kidnappers, officials said.