Former Swedish Foreign Minister dies
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Sten Andersson, a leading figure in Sweden's governing Social Democratic Party and one-time mediator in the Middle East peace process, has died, the party said Saturday. He was 83.
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Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer has died aged 64, Icelandic media report.
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a leading player in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy as ambassador to the United Nations, has died at the age of 80.
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Former Austrian president and UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim, who died on June 14, was buried in Vienna Saturday with political and religious leaders calling for reconciliation over his Nazi past.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who polarized Chile during his violent 1973-1990 military rule and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.
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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.
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Former Indian prime minister, PV Narasimha Rao, has died, the speaker of parliament's lower house announces.
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Former dictator who held an iron grip on Indonesia for 32 years, dies of multiple organ failure
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Jeane Kirkpatrick, a leading player  in former President Ronald Reagan's conservative foreign policy  as ambassador to the United Nations, has died at the age of 80.
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Former Indian Prime Minister P.V.  Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms but ended his  political career facing criminal charges, died of heart failure  on Thursday, the government said.
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Japan's agriculture minister dies in hospital after being found hanged in Tokyo, reports say.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who had been fighting for his life in recent days after an apparent poisoning, has died, the hospital where he was being treated said.
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Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations secretary-general and Austrian president, died on Thursday aged 88 after a short but severe illness, the Austrian presidency and a family spokesman said.
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Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms but ended his political career facing criminal charges, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, whose legacy of economic development was marred by graft and human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, died on Sunday, aged 86, after suffering multiple organ failure.
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A man convicted and then acquitted of the murder of former Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme dies of unclear causes.
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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, one of the world's most notorious military dictators, died Sunday in Santiago a week after suffering a heart attack.