Egypt Nobel winner Mahfouz dies
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Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arab to have won the Nobel Prize for literature, dies in hospital in Cairo.
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Adnan Al-Gul, the inventor of the Qassam rockets used by Palestinians to attack Israel, was killed yesterday in an air attack on Gaza.
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records would be given to Nasser al-Kidwa, Arafat&#39;s nephew and the Palestinian representative at the United Nations. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader died of an undisclosed illness at a French hospital on November 11.
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Ashraf Marwan, the controversial son-in-law of Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, has died, a state-run news agency reported Wednesday. He was 62.
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Sudan's powerful presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa, who was instrumental in signing last year's Darfur peace accord, died in a car accident in northern Sudan, a presidential source said on Wednesday.
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A billionaire son-in-law of a former Egyptian president who reportedly spied for Israel in wartime has been found dead in London, media reports said on Thursday.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, a Nobel Prize winner whose role in discovering the double helix structure of DNA has been overshadowed by more-celebrated colleagues for the past half-century, died Oct. 5 in a London hospital.
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died in France on Thursday, his  dream of a Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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CAIRO -- The son-in-law of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, named by Israeli officials as a source for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, died in London yesterday and the Egyptian state news agency quoted reports he had fallen from the balcony of his home.
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Scientists yesterday mourned Maurice Wilkins, sometimes called the forgotten man of DNA, who died in hospital on Tuesday aged 88. Wilkins, a professor at King&#39;s College London, shared the 1962 Nobel prize
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A top Sudanese presidential adviser who played a key role in Darfur peace negotiations died early Wednesday in a car accident, a government official said.
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Milosz, who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1980, died on August 14 at the age of 93 at his home in the southern city of Krakow.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting Egyptian life in his beloved corner of ancient Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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A 25-year-old Egyptian woman has died of bird flu, Egypt's Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
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Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died.
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Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1980, died at the age of 93, PAP news agency quoted his family as saying.
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Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the   only writer in Arabic to win the Nobel Prize for literature,   died on Wednesday in Cairo aged 94, doctors said.