Greek Orthodox leader dies in crash
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ATHENS -- Egypt's Patriarch of Alexandria, a top Greek Orthodox leader in a post that traces its lineage back to one of the first disciples of Christ, was killed in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities said yesterday.
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Retired Archbishop James Aloysius Hickey, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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A senior Hamas leader was killed in anIsraeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City on Thursday night,Palestinian security sources reported.
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Eleni Ioannou, the Greek Olympic judo team member who was hospitalized after plummeting from her apartment balcony more than two weeks ago, died on Tuesday.
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The head of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who mended ties with the Vatican but clashed with the Greek state, died of cancer on Monday at the age of 69.
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Patriarch Petros VII, of Alexandria, Egypt, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Africa, was killed Saturday in a helicopter crash.
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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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Police on Wednesday investigated the death of a billionaire Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet state which they said was "suspicious".
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Egypt&#39;s Patriarch of Alexandria, a top Greek Orthodox leader in a post that traces its lineage back to one of the first disciples of Christ, has been killed in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities say.
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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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The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, dies, aged 69, after a battle with cancer.
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A British soldier serving with NATO forces in Kosovo (KFOR) died early on Friday morning in northern Greece in a hit-and-run car accident, police in the city of Salonika said.
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Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead Georgia's revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, died early Thursday in a friend's apartment from what officials claimed was an accidental gas leak from a heater.
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A low-key bishop described as an "enlightened conservative" was chosen by senior clergy Thursday to lead Greece's powerful Orthodox Church.
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Former president and CEO of what was once the world's largest group e-mail provider, dies in crash with daughter.
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A man is killed in a multi-vehicle crash, which blocked the M4 near Cardiff on Sunday.
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"They are trying to take away our society's Christian and Orthodox identity, using various groundless arguments, because they hate God and want to marginalize the church"  Greece's Orthodox Church leader, Archbishop Christodoulos, who eased centuries of tension with the Vatican but angered liberal critics who viewed him as an attention-seeking reactionary, died Monday at his home of cancer, church officials said. He was 69.Christodoulos, who headed the church for a decade, was first hospitalized in Athens in June before being diagnosed with cancer of the liver and large intestine.He spent 10 weeks in a hospital in Miami but an October liver transplant operation was canceled when doctors discovered the cancer had spread. He refused hospital treatment in the final weeks of his life. He died at his home in the Athens suburb of Psyhico. Read more