Chad PM dies in Paris from brain haemorrhage
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died from a brain haemorrhage in Paris on Friday after he was flown there for urgent treatment following a heart attack. He was 56.
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Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat died this morning in a French military hospital. He was 75 years old. Arafat spent the last three weeks of his life in France with an unspecified illness, and his last few days in a deep coma.
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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious military dictators, died Sunday in Santiago a week after suffering a heart attack.
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Yasser Arafat, the leader for decades of a fight for Palestinian independence from Israel, has died at a military hospital in Paris, according to news reports.
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Sudan's powerful presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa, who was instrumental in signing last year's Darfur peace accord, died in a car accident in northern Sudan, a presidential source said on Wednesday.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, one of the most controversial and divisive figures in Middle East politics, died in a Paris hospital early Thursday morning of a mystery illness, according to media reports.
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An anti-nuclear activist died in France on Sunday after having a leg cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France's SNCF railway operator said.
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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Japan's agriculture minister dies in hospital after being found hanged in Tokyo, reports say.
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Yasser Arafat, symbol of Palestinian nationhood for four decades, dies in a French hospital aged 75.
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A top Sudanese presidential adviser who played a key role in Darfur peace negotiations died early Wednesday in a car accident, a government official said.
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AVRICOURT, FRANCE - An anti-nuclear protester was killed in France Sunday when his leg was cut off by a train carrying radioactive waste to Germany.
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Henri Salvador, the French crooner credited with inspiring the bossa nova, dies in Paris at the age of 90.
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The leader of Senegal's powerful Mouride Muslim brotherhood has died, followers said on Saturday, throwing into mourning a movement that holds huge influence and whose trade networks span the globe.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- There&#39;s been a death of a leader in the Arab world. State-run media say the president of the United Arab Emirates has died.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died, Prime Minister Helen Clark said on Friday.
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One of the candidates Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was fielding in the Jan. 30 elections was killed in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, officials in Baghdad and Basra said.