Man Accused of Murdering Swedish PM Palme Dies
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The only suspect ever brought to trial for the shock 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme died on Wednesday, leaving the case unsolved almost 20 years on.
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CALGARY, Alberta  - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died on Sunday of kidney failure, CBC Television said. He was 82.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim dies of heart failure, Austrian media reports.
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Action film star and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., who refused to concede May's election, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke. He was 65.
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Dictator whose 30-year rule was based on ruthless repression, cronyism and manipulation of the world's rival superpowers dies after organ failure
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An Italian man accused of murdering his American ex-girlfriend died of a heart attack as he gave evidence about the case at his trial in Rome.
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Sir Anthony Meyer, the Tory backbencher who challenged Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership in 1989, has died.
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Filipino film star and failed  presidential candidate  Fernando Poe dies in hospital in Manila after a stroke.
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Cheating fertilizer salesman Scott Peterson killed his pregnant wife to achieve a fantasy lifestyle, prosecutors said in closing arguments on Monday in the high-profile double-murder case.
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Philippine movie legend Fernando Poe  Jr., who came close to unseating Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in  May's presidential election, died on Tuesday after suffering a  stroke, his family said.
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One of the best known theatre personalities in South Africa is killed in his home by armed men, police say.
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A former leader who quietly pressed for Syria to quit Lebanon was killed Monday.
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The top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank died Thursday morning after being gunned down by two assailants the night before near a Moscow football stadium, a medical source told Russia's state-run Interfax news agency.
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Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who was dogged by allegations of a Nazi past, dies aged 88.
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The man who killed former Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will serve his life sentence in prison, the Swedish Supreme Court has ruled.
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Sam Hinga Norman, a former government minister on trial for allegedly overseeing a militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, died Thursday at a Senegalese hospital, a court statement said.
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Ahmed Abu Laban, Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader and a central figure in last year's uproar over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, has died from cancer, his organization said Friday. He was 60.