Nicaraguan presidential candidate dies
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack Sunday, his party&#039;s president said. He was 67. Dora Maria Tellez told The Associated Press Lewites, a former Managua mayor, died at a hospital in the capital.
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In an official message broadcast on national TV and official news agency Saba, Yemenâs president conveyed his condolences to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the demise of its president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan, who died at the age of 90
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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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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador  - Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega said on Wednesday he would revive health, literacy and agriculture programs that he made successful when his left-wing Sandinistas ruled in the 1980s.
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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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Antoine Ghanem, the eighth anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated since February 2005, died Wednesday in a car bombing just days before the presidential vote.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates president has died in Dubai after a long illness. He was 86. Sheik Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan had been the absolute ruler of the country, which is the
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- There&#39;s been a death of a leader in the Arab world. State-run media say the president of the United Arab Emirates has died.
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Philippine movie legend Fernando Poe Jr, who came close to defeating Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May's presidential race, died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke, his spokeswoman and political supporters said.
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United Arab Emirates President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan died Tuesday, official television reports. He was 86.
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A Spanish woman died on Saturday after being wounded in an attack that killed seven Spanish tourists in Yemen last week, a doctor said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday. He was 91.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday, a week after suffering a heart attack, a military doctor said.
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British police said Thursday that interim tests indicate Georgian billionaire Badri Patarkatsishvili, a presidential candidate in the ex-Soviet republic who claimed he was targeted for assassination, had died of natural causes.
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Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as a vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday, according to the office of Sen. Claire McCaskill.
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Fernando Poe Jr., 65, the Filipino action film star and presidential candidate who refused to concede May&#39;s election, died just after midnight Dec. 12 US time at a hospital in Quezon City after a stroke.
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LEON, Nicaragua  - An adulterated batch of   moonshine cane liquor has killed 23 people in Nicaragua, the   government said on Friday, and dozens more with symptoms of   poisoning flooded an overstretched hospital.