Ex-Brazil politician Magalhaes, 79, dies
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Sen. Antonio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhaes, one of Brazil's most influential politicians who held on to power as the country came under a military dictatorship and returned to democracy, died Friday, hospital officials said. He was 79.
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Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor known as the Angel of Death, died in Brazil 25 years ago lonely and cash-strapped but apparently unrepentant, according to documents published this week.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead the peaceful protests that forced Georgia's corruption-tainted administration from power two years ago, died early today in an apparent gas leak, the ex-Soviet republic's interior minister said.
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Former president Suharto, hailed as the father of development by some Indonesians during his 32 years in power and accused of corruption and rights abuses by others, died on Sunday after a long illness.
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By Leonardo Pedro BELEM, Brazil  - A 74-year-old American nun wasshot to death early on Saturday in Brazil's Amazon jungle,where she worked for decades to defend peasant farmers and therain forest from illegal loggers and ranchers.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist for 32 years, has died, a senior police official told reporters on Sunday at the hospital where he was being treated.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled from 1973-1990, died on Sunday, a doctor from Santiago's military hospital said.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases that had sought to bring him to...
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian president despite an international scandal about his secretive World War II military service for the Nazis, died Thursday, Austrian media reported. He was 88.
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 10 -- Thousands of jubilant Chileans streamed into the streets of Santiago after hearing that their former president, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, had died Sunday. Many danced and popped open champagne, while caravans of cars with horns blaring toured the capital for hours.
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Former Swedish prince Count Lennart Bernadotte has died aged 95 at his home in southern Germany, his family said in a local newspaper.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Josef Mengele, the infamousNazi doctor known as the Angel of Death, died in Brazil 25years ago lonely and cash-strapped but apparently unrepentant,according to documents published this week.
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An outside challenger Tuesday won the coveted post of speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress, handing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers Party their biggest political defeat since he took office in 2003.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Violent clashes over land increased during Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first term, disappointing rights groups that hoped the former union leader would alleviate rural tensions, a report issued on Thursday said.
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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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Former Sao Paulo Gov. Geraldo Alckmin forced a presidential runoff election by capitalizing on Brazilians' anger over scandals that reached ever-closer to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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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.