Morocco&#39;s former interior minister, Driss Basri, dies aged 69
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Morocco&#39;s former interior minister, Driss Basri, died Monday, aged 69, in a Paris hospital, to be mourned in some circles as a loyal servant of the crown and condemned by others as a ruthless axeman.
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Jacques Martin, the French television personality once married to now-first lady Cecilia Sarkozy, died Friday. He was 74.
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Gunmen have killed a senior official in Iraq&#39;s communication ministry as he was driving to work in central Baghdad. Kassim Imhawi was hit by gunmen who pulled up beside him as he travelled into the city from a western suburb.
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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.
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Maurice Papon, a former Cabinet minister who was convicted of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews during World War II and became a symbol of France's collaboration with the Nazis, died Saturday. He was 96.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon A former Lebanese Cabinet minister has been wounded and his driver killed in an early morning car bombing in Beirut.
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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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A former leader who quietly pressed for Syria to quit Lebanon was killed Monday.
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Political author, Independent columnist and Nelson Mandela's biographer Anthony Sampson dies aged 78.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - The acting police chief in the  northern Iraqi town of Samarra was killed Sunday, a police  official said.
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RABAT, Morocco  - Double Olympic champion Hicham  El Guerrouj, the greatest middle distance runner of his  generation, plans to retire in 2006 after trying to break the  5,000 meters world record next year.
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One of the candidates Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was fielding in the Jan. 30 elections was killed in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, officials in Baghdad and Basra said.
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Sudan&#39;s powerful presidential adviser  Majzoub al-Khalifa, who was key to signing last year&#39;s Darfur  peace accord, died in a car accident in northern Sudan on  Wednesday.
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Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms in the early 1990s in the South Asian nation, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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Former Indian prime minister, PV Narasimha Rao, has died at the age of 83 after a heart attack.
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Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, died Monday, President Hamid Karzai said. He was 92.
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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.