Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz dies
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting Egyptian life in his beloved corner of ancient Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.
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Milosz, who won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1980, died on August 14 at the age of 93 at his home in the southern city of Krakow.
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday (October 5), Kings College London announced on Wednesday.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to someone in the Middle East three times, and the Middle East is still in flames. Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar got it in 1991, and is still under house arrest. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev won in 1990, then ordered a bloody crackdown in the Baltic Republics as he sought to save the Soviet Union from collapse.
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Maxime A. Faget, 83, a retired NASA aeronautical engineer whose innovative designs contributed greatly to manned spacecraft from Mercury to the space shuttle, died of cancer Oct. 10 at his home in Houston.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize in any category since the awards were first handed out in 1901...
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Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins, a British scientist who played a key role in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died on Tuesday, his university said on Wednesday.
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Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Sune Bergstroem, who shared the 1982 medicine award for research that led to new treatments for ulcers and menstrual pain, has died.
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Mumbai, Sept. 24 (NNN):One of India&#39;s most eminent nuclear scientists and the scientific mastermind behind the country&#39;s first atomic test, Dr Raja Ramanna, passed away in Mumbai early this morning after a cardiac arrest.
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Nuclear scientist Raja Ramanna passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Friday morning following an intestinal problem. Ramanna, 79, was admitted to Bombay Hospital on Thursday after he complained of giddiness and sweating.
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Yasser Arafat, the guerrilla icon turned  Nobel Peace prize winner who ended up isolated and locked in  renewed conflict with Israel, died in France on Thursday, his  dream of a Palestinian state unfulfilled. He was 75.
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Adnan Al-Gul, the inventor of the Qassam rockets used by Palestinians to attack Israel, was killed yesterday in an air attack on Gaza.
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ABU DHABI-The saddened, multinational business community in the capital termed the death of statesman, President of the UAE Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan as a death of an era best known
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In some ways, the life of Naguib Mahfouz charts the rise and fall of a generation of Arab intellectuals.
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Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates President and founding father Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan died on Tuesday, his office announced.
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BOMBAY: Raja Ramanna, the scientist who pioneered India&#39;s drive to become a nuclear power, died yesterday in Bombay at age 79.
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Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, a Bedouin tribesman who became president of the federation known as the United Arab Emirates and one of the Arab world&#39;s leading statesmen, died yesterday.