Afghanistan's former King dies aged 92
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Former King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign until his exile in 1973 coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in Afghanistan's recent history, died on Monday aged 92.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his repressive 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday at 91 years old.
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Former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah died on Monday, aged 92, presidential palace sources said.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist for 32 years, has died, a senior police official told reporters on Sunday at the hospital where he was being treated.
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More than 20,000 Afghans gathered in  Kabul on Wednesday to remember Northern Alliance military  commander Ahmad Shah Masood, slain by al Qaeda operatives two  days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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Former Indonesian dictator Suharto -- the "smiling general" who ruled his country with an iron fist for three decades -- died Sunday at a hospital in Jakarta, said his doctor. He was 86.
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Suharto, who was ousted from power in 1998 after 32 years of authoritarian rule, dies at 86.
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The caretaker of Afghanistan's only functioning synagogue and one of the last remaining Jews in Kabul has died. But the man now believed to be the sole survivor of this once-thriving Jewish community, who feuded bitterly for years with the deceased, said Tuesday he was not sad to see him go.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in a raid in southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.    Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, reportedly a former inmate at the U.S...
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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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The Afghan transitional government on Wednesday celebrated the &quot;Martyrs Week&quot; by commemorating the late resistance leader Ahmad Shah Masoud and thousands of others who lost their
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A British soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, the Ministry of Defence said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.
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A British soldier died from a gunshot wound sustained in an &quot;enemy contact&quot; in Afghanistan&#39;s southern Helmand province on Thursday, the defence ministry here said.
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Former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in the country's recent history, died on Monday, aged 92.
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The funeral is held in Kabul of Afghanistan's last king, Zahir Shah, who died on Monday aged 92.
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Morocco&#39;s former interior minister, Driss Basri, died Monday, aged 69, in a Paris hospital, to be mourned in some circles as a loyal servant of the crown and condemned by others as a ruthless axeman.