Yemen parliament speaker dies
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Three days of mourning begin for the speaker of Yemen's parliament, Abdullah al-Ahmar, after he dies of cancer.
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A Sri Lankan minister was killed by a roadside bomb planted by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels north of the capital on Tuesday, a senior hospital official said, the second MP killed in a week as a protracted civil war escalates.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
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Government officials in Yemen say security forces have killed a radical Muslim cleric, who led a three-month rebellion and staged violent protests against Israel and the United States.
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A Sri Lankan government minister died on the operating table on Tuesday after his vehicle was targeted by a suspected Tamil Tiger roadside bomb north of the capital, a senior hospital official said.
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Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili dies of a heart attack, aides say.
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A prominent Sri Lankan opposition Tamil parliamentarian was shot and killed on Tuesday, the military said, as the opposition charged that a lack of security made the government responsible for the death.
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Two suspected suicide bombers died Sunday when they prematurely detonated their bomb near the residence of a senior leader of the ruling party in eastern Pakistan, police said.
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SAN&#39;A, Yemen - Yemen&#39;s Defense and Interior ministries announced the death of a rebel cleric who has led his followers in fierce battles with the government for more than two months, the country&#39;s official news agency reported Friday.
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Bangladesh opposition Awami League&#39;s central leader Ivy Rahman, fatally wounded in the Aug 21 bomb attack on the party rally in Dhaka, died in the army hospital on Tuesday.
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Anti-Syrian Lebanese MP among at least four people killed in Beirut explosion, according to reports.
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An opposition lawmaker died at a hospital shortly after he was wounded in a shooting near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, a hospital official said.
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Baron Renton of Huntingdon, Britain&#39;s longest-serving lawmaker, died Thursday aged 98, a member of his household confirmed.
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JAKARTA - Backed by the Nationhood Coalition of political parties, a senior politician of Indonesia&#39;s largest Golkar Party was elected speaker of the House of Representatives early Saturday.
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The leader of a splinter faction of   Nepal's Maoist rebels said on Sunday his group had shot and   killed a member of the Himalayan nation's parliament.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan  - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi on Thursday, her party said.
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In an official message broadcast on national TV and official news agency Saba, Yemenâs president conveyed his condolences to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the demise of its president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan, who died at the age of 90