Nicaraguan presidential candidate dies
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites, who broke with the leftist Sandinista party to run against its leader Daniel Ortega, died of a heart attack Sunday, a close political ally said. He was 67.
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The family of a man believed to have died on a volcano in Nicaragua pay tribute to him.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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Abdullah Saleh al-Ashtal, who served as Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations for nearly 30 years, died in New York on Thursday after a long illness, Yemen's Foreign Ministry and its U.N. Mission said Friday. He was 66.
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Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates President and founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan died on Tuesday, his office announced.
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Fernando Poe Jr., 65, the Filipino action film star and presidential candidate who refused to concede May&#39;s election, died just after midnight Dec. 12 US time at a hospital in Quezon City after a stroke.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his brutal 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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A Spanish woman died on Saturday after  being wounded in an attack that killed seven Spanish tourists  in Yemen last week, a doctor said.
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Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, died Thursday, three days before elections to replace her son, the president&#039;s office said. She was 86.
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Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, a former Argentine rebel who claimed he led the squad that killed exiled Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, died Friday. He was 65.
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The top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank died Thursday morning after being gunned down by two assailants the night before near a Moscow football stadium, a medical source told Russia's state-run Interfax news agency.
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Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili dies of a heart attack, aides say.
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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.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973-1990, died on Sunday, a doctor from Santiago's military hospital said.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaraguan police found two  bodies on Friday on a volcanic island and said they were likely  the remains of an American and a Briton who went missing last  month.
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Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, president and founder of the United Arab Emirates, has died after many years of poor health, according to his office.
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Philippine movie legend Fernando Poe  Jr., who came close to unseating Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in  May's presidential election, died on Tuesday after suffering a  stroke, his family said.