Former Sen Zholtok Passes Away
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The veteran NHL player was playing hockey in his home city of Riga when he became ill near the end of a game. Zholtok was drafted by Boston in 1992, 55th overall, and played 588 NHL games with the Bruins, Ottawa
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Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, died Monday, President Hamid Karzai said. He was 92.
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Nashville Predators center Sergei Zholtok died at age 31 after becoming ill during a hockey game in his hometown of Riga, Latvia. A cause of death wasn&#39;t immediately disclosed by the Predators in a statement.
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Nashville Predators centre Sergei Zholtok has died of an apparent heart ailment at the age of 31. According to the NHL outfit, Zholtok died on Wednesday in his native Latvia where he was playing for Riga 2000 during the league lockout.
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Vietnamese political activists spanning the generations on Saturday bade farewell to onetime senior Communist Party member turned dissident Hoang Minh Chinh, who died in his late 80s earlier this month.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
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Alexander V. Litvinenko, who fell gravely ill early this month, apparently after being poisoned, died Thursday night after suffering a heart attack, the authorities said.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading  U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear  deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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MOSCOW, Nov. 29 -- Another mysterious illness has struck another prominent Russian. Former prime minister Yegor Gaidar became ill Friday at a conference in Ireland, vomiting and then losing consciousness for three hours, according to his spokesman.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital on Thursday three weeks after he was poisoned in what friends said was a plot orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, whose free-market economic reforms in 1991 launched India&#39;s shift from a bankrupt nation hobbled by socialist policies into a regional economic power, has died.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London three weeks ago, died on Thursday, the hospital treating him said.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's  Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing an army crackdown on  the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on  Monday, his family and the government said. He was 85.
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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.
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Borislav Boskovic, the Associated Press correspondent in the former Yugoslavia at the height of the Cold War, has died of emphysema. He was 87.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure, Austrian media reports.
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Former president Suharto, hailed as the father of development by some Indonesians during his 32 years in power and accused of corruption and rights abuses by others, died on Sunday after a long illness.