Afghanistan's former King dies aged 92
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Former King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign until his exile in 1973 coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in Afghanistan's recent history, died on Monday, aged 92.
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Mohammad Zahir Shah returned to Kabul from exile in 2002. He had been deposed in 1973 after a 40-year reign.
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ISLAMABAD, 25 August 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday announced he would free the last 400 Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taleban and had been languishing in decrepit Afghan jails since late 2001.
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Gen. Andi Muhammad Jusuf, a former Indonesian army chief who played a pivotal role in the rise to power of former dictator Suharto nearly four decades ago, has died. He was 76.
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Former Prime Minister Raymond Barre, one of France's most prominent centrist politicians, has died, his family said Saturday. He was 83.
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NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao has passed away in New Delhi Thursday following a cardiac arrest. He was 83. Rao was prime minister from 1991 to 1996 and Manmohan Singh, now prime minister, was his finance minister.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in a raid in southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.    Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, reportedly a former inmate at the U.S...
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Â· Victims of Afghanistan attack aged 18 and 23Â·  Interpreter died after airlift to medical centre
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Tributes are played to a British soldier killed in Afghanistan after he is named by the Ministry of Defence.
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November 5, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday there was no future for the warlords or drug barons who flourished during three decades of conflict in Afghanistan.
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The funeral is held in Kabul of Afghanistan's last king, Zahir Shah, who died on Monday aged 92.
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One of the most prominent Shia clerics in Bahrain, Abdul Amir al-Jamri, dies at the age of 69.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto, whose iron-fisted rule became a byword for corruption and bloody repression but also brought economic growth, died Sunday after a long fight for life.
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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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Indonesia's former president Suharto, whose legacy of economic development was marred by graft and human rights abuses during his 32 years in power, died on Sunday, aged 86, after suffering multiple organ failure.
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The 83-year-old former Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao, has died of cardiac failure in a New Delhi hospital. In 1991 Narasimha Rao became first outside the Nehru-Gandhi family India&#39;s prime minister.
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SHEIKH Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, died yesterday after more than three decades in power.