Celebrated American expat Rosa Carr dies in beloved Rwanda
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Rosamund Carr, a New Jersey fashion designer who lived a colorful and tragic life for more than a half century in tumultuous central Africa, has died in Rwanda, friends and employees have said.
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Sierra Leone's former Defense Minister Sam Hinga Norman, on trial for war crimes at a U.N.-backed tribunal in the West African country, died on Thursday in Senegal weeks before a verdict was due.
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Hollywood film star Mia Farrow arrived  in Central African Republic at the weekend seeking to draw  world attention to what aid workers call a "forgotten crisis"  worsened by spillover from war in Sudan's Darfur region.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A leftist guerrilla who   led the group that assassinated Nicaraguan ex-dictator   Anastasio Somoza in 1980 died in Argentina of heart failure on   Friday at age 65, local media said.
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Susan Sontag, an intellectual and human rights activist who wrote on subjects as diverse as photography, philosophy and AIDS, died today in New York City.
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In her life, Rosa Parks was a civil rights symbol. In her death she has become a marketing phenomenon.
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Condolences poured in to former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday following the death of his mother Rosa Bossi in Milan at age 97, Italian media reported.
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Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to France and said it might break off diplomatic ties after a French judge said the Rwandan president and nine aides should be prosecuted over the death of his predecessor, the event that sparked the 1994 genocide.
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A senior US diplomat said Friday he is confident that Rwanda and Congo are committed to resolving their differences peacefully, despite two weeks of escalating tensions between the two neighbors.
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Allen Carr, an anti-smoking campaigner who helped millions quit after he kicked a 100-a-day habit, died from lung cancer on Wednesday, his spokesman said.
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KIGALI, Rwanda, Nov. 24  -- Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with France on Friday in protest of a French judge's call for President Paul Kagame to stand trial in the 1994 killing of one of his predecessors, the event that unleashed the country's genocide.
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An elderly American nun killed in the struggle to protect the Amazon rain forest from loggers and ranchers was buried in her adopted homeland after a funeral attended by thousands who remembered her courage and dedication.
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Arif Ali, regional product director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for The Associated Press, died of cancer at his home Thursday. He was 46.
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Adelaide Tambo, widow of South African anti-apartheid hero Oliver Tambo and a stalwart in the struggle against racial segregation, died Wednesday, officials said. She was 77.
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Georgia Frontiere, an occasional night-club singer and chorus line performer who hoped to become an opera star, was thrust into the pro football world in April 1979 when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, drowned near his Florida home.
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Beverly Sills, the world-renowned  soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in  modern times, died on Monday evening in New York from  inoperable lung cancer, her manager said.
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Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that had an 18 1/2-minute gap, has died. She was 87.