China's ex-leader Zhao 'in coma'
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The health of China's ex-Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang has deteriorated sharply, reports say.
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Popular Philippine movie star and defeated opposition presidential candidate, Fernando Poe, is in a coma after suffering a stroke.
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FORMER Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had regained consciousness a day after a stroke sent him to hospital for emergency treatment, doctors said overnight.
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China holds a scaled-down funeral on  Saturday for Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party chief toppled in  1989 for opposing the army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square  demonstrations for democracy.
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BEIJING -- One by one, the mourners pinned on white flowers and stepped into the Beijing courtyard home where China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest for almost 16 years.
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on news reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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SEOUL, South Korea -- A South Korean boxer who lost consciousness after winning his WBO intercontinental flyweight bout was in a coma with a brain injury.
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Zhao Ziyang, a reformist toppled as  China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army  crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in  hospital on Monday, his family said. He was 85.
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Yasser Arafat is in a coma between life and death, a senior Palestinian official said on Friday, and some of the Palestinian president's powers have been transferred to his prime minister.
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Former Indonesian president Suharto, who has been in hospital in a critical condition for more than three weeks, has lapsed into a coma for the first time, one of his doctors said on Sunday.
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BEIJING -- China held a tightly controlled memorial for Zhao Ziyang today, barring dissidents and reporters from a government cemetery as relatives mourned the former Communist Party leader who was ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with democracy activists.
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Former International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch was taken to hospital on Wednesday after collapsing at a promotional event in the Spanish capital.
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Chinese citizens pay their respects to ousted Party leader Zhao Ziyang, under tight police surveillance.
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BEIJING -- In a major political tremor within China's ruling Communist Party, Shanghai's top party boss has been sacked on corruption charges stemming from a pension fund scandal.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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SANTIAGO  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized after suffering a stroke, the Military Hospital of Santiago said in a statement.
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South Korean boxer Choi Yo-sam, who lapsed into a coma last week defending his World Boxing Organization title, has been declared brain dead and will soon go off life support, a hospital official said on Wednesday.