Yemeni Ambassador to United Nations Dies
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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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Kurt Waldheim, a former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president who became tainted by revelations that he hid his past in Nazi Germany's officer corps, died on Thursday aged 88.
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One Saudi policeman died in a clash with  militants linked to al Qaeda who have been waging an 18-month  campaign of attacks in the oil-rich kingdom, an Interior  Ministry official said Wednesday.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto died from multiple organ failure on Sunday, a local police official told reporters at the hospital where he was admitted on January 4. He was 86.
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Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed an al-Qaida suspect who was convicted of an attack on a French oil tanker and escaped from prison earlier this year, security officials said.
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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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Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under former President Ronald Reagan, has died, the American Enterprise Institute, where she was a senior fellow, said on its Web site on Friday.
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A United Nations peacekeeper who was among a small group of reinforcements sent to Darfur was shot to death at his residence &#151; the world body's first casualty since its long-negotiated arrival in the troubled region, officials said Saturday.
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ABU DHABI, Nov 2  - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, who died Tuesday after ruling the United Arab Emirates (UAE) since the birth of the federation more than three decades ago, enjoyed the role of elder statesman in a conflict-torn region.
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An alleged top operative of al-Qaida in Lebanon arrested 10 days ago died of a heart attack on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
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A man suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody last week and authorities are investigating whether he was tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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Yemeni forces killed anti-U.S. rebel  cleric Hussein al-Houthi and dozens of his supporters on  Friday, ending over two months of clashes in which over 200  rebels and troops have died.
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IBB, Yemen  - At least 42 people were killed and   more than 80 injured in a stampede on Tuesday in a Yemeni   stadium where President Ali Abdullah Saleh was holding a   pre-election rally, a Yemeni official said.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates president has died in Dubai after a long illness. He was 86. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan had been the absolute ruler of the country, which is the
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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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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House on Thursday paid tribute to United Nations envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed in the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad one year ago.