Mom of Mexican President Vicente Fox dies
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Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, died Thursday, three days before elections to replace her son, the president&#039;s office said. She was 86.
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Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
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Vilma Espin de Castro, 77, a daughter of privilege who became one of the most powerful women in Communist Cuba -- as the de facto first lady for her brother-in-law, Fidel Castro, and as a champion of women's rights -- died June 18 in Havana. Her husband, Defense Minister Raul Castro, is acting pr...
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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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A cousin of Mariano Rivera&#39;s wife and the cousin&#39;s son died Saturday after being electrocuted on the grounds of the New York Yankees closer&#39;s home in Panama.
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Leftist protests forced President   Vicente Fox to abandon plans to lead Mexico's main independence   day ceremony in the capital on Friday, reducing the risk of   violence over a hotly contested election.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 14 -- President Vicente Fox backed away from a confrontation with AndrÃÂ©s Manuel LÃÂ³pez Obrador on Thursday, announcing that he wouldn't hold his annual Independence Day celebration at the capital's main Zocalo plaza to avoid protesters.
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Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, whose brassy, tough-talking persona and trademark white hair cut an indelible profile in Democratic politics, died Wednesday evening at her home in Austin, surrounded by her family, her spokesman, Bill Maddox said.
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Raul Velasco, who hosted one of Mexico's most popular and enduring television programs, "Siempre en Domingo," died Sunday at his home in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, his network said. He was 73.
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A Salvadoran woman believed to be 128 years old and possibly the world's oldest person, has died, a family friend said on Friday.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox is  running out of time to deliver on a key pledge to punish  wrongdoers in a decades-old "dirty war," and the job may get  tougher as political tensions rise ahead of 2006 elections.
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The woman treated at Harborview Medical Center this summer for a mysterious brain ailment related to mad-cow disease has died.
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President Vicente Fox fired Mexico City's police chief Monday for allegedly bungling the response to a mob attack that killed two federal police officers. Fox's action sharply increases a political clash with leaders of the opposition-led capital ahead of the 2006 presidential race.
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Nellie Connally, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. The 87-year-old was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, who   sparred with former President George H.W. Bush and later lost   the state's top job to his son, President George W. Bush, died   on Wednesday. She was 73.
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Vilma Espin, a key figure from Cuba's Communist revolution and wife of acting president Raul Castro, dies.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay  - The daughter of Paraguay's  former President Raul Cubas was found dead on Wednesday  underneath a house near the capital, nearly five months after  she was kidnapped, government officials said.