Cuba Minister Simeon Said Dead at Age 61
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Rosa Elena Simeon, Cuba's minister of science, technology and environment, has died, state television reported. She was 61.
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Chile's former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet died at the age of 91, Chilean TV reports.
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A former army commander twice accused of plotting to overthrow Haiti's government was shot to death in an upscale suburb of the capital, police said Friday.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro broke his knee and fractured his arm after falling down on a stage. The 78-year-old had just finished a speech at a graduation ceremony.
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Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who exposed its undercover operations in Latin America in a 1975 book, died in Havana, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Wednesday.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a further assault on the embattled Afghan government, a suicide bomber killed six people yesterday at the funeral of a provincial governor who was assassinated by the Taliban. Four senior Cabinet ministers escaped injury.
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The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith died while visiting his mother in the hospital where the reality TV star and former Playboy playmate had given birth last week, a Bahamas police official said Monday.
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By OSCAR CORRAL  By OSCAR CORRAL  MIAMI - Picture this: Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies. Cubans board rafts and take to the seas. In South Florida, exiles board boats and head for Cuba to pick up desperate relatives.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his repressive 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday at 91 years old.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a roadside bombing near the capital that was blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, the military said.
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Philip Agee, a former CIA spy who exposed its undercover operations in Latin America in a 1975 book, died in Havana, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Wednesday.
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Acting President Raul Castro sat in for his ailing brother Fidel Wednesday at the 13th birthday celebration for Elian Gonzalez, the boy at the center of an international custody dispute nearly seven years ago.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - The daughter of Paraguay'sformer President Raul Cubas was found dead on Wednesdayunderneath a house near the capital, nearly five months aftershe was kidnapped, government officials said.
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HAVANA -- Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Gunmen shot and killed a  Baptist minister who was Haiti's most popular radio personality  on Monday, the radio station's owner said.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed Tuesday in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels near the island's capital and international airport, officials said.