Georgia opposition leader dies suddenly in London
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TBILISI/LONDON  - Wealthy Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, a leading opponent of President Mikhail Saakashvili, has died suddenly in London, his aides said on Wednesday.
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Badri Patarkatsishvili, the exiled Georgian oligarch who had accused the Georgian government of tilting toward autocracy and corruption, died unexpectedly.
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Georgia's President Saakashvili says he is taking charge of the government following the death of his prime minister.
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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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A Sri Lankan opposition minority Tamil parliamentarian was shot and killed on Tuesday, the military said.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Hundreds of Georgians gathered yesterday in the snow in central Tbilisi to mourn Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, whose death has left the struggling former Soviet republic concerned about its future.
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Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili dies of a heart attack, aides say.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - The prime minister of  ex-Soviet Georgia was found dead on Thursday in a bizarre gas  poisoning that robs the inexperienced president, Mikhail  Saakashvili, of a steadying hand to help run his turbulent  country.
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Georgians bid farewell Sunday to late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who died three days earlier in a friend's apartment, amid worries for the future of their struggling country and doubts about the official explanation of his death.
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Former Northern Ireland minister Sir Nicholas Scott has died at a London hospice, his family has announced.
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Lebanon's opposition buried on Tuesday an anti-government demonstrator whose death in a street skirmish has raised sectarian tensions and the army's commander warned his forces might not be able to control the streets.
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LONDON, Nov. 23 -- Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy and vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died Thursday night in a London hospital after being mysteriously poisoned.
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The body of Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili will be taken home for burial once British investigators have released their final report on the cause of his death, his family said on Friday.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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The head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, dies, aged 69, after a battle with cancer.
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Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga said police shot dead seven protesters in Nairobi on Thursday and more than 1,000 people had died in unrest since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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The parliament of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region says the opposition candidate won presidential elections.