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S.Africa declares four-day national mourning for last white President de Klerk
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday declared four days of national mourning for South Africa's last...
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S. Africa’s de Klerk to be cremated at private ceremony on Nov 21, no state funeral
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The funeral of South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, who died on Thursday...
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F.W. de Klerk, South African president who oversaw end of apartheid, dies at 85
By Promit Mukherjee and Emma Rumney JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa's last white president, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, died on...
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Text of de Klerk’s video message to South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's last white president, F.W. de Klerk, who died on Thursday aged 85, apologised for the...
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S.Africa’s Ramaphosa says de Klerk played key role in country’s democracy, expresses sadness
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he and the government were saddened over the death of the...
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Key dates in the end of white rule in South Africa
(Reuters) - South Africa's last white president Frederik Willem (F.W.) de Klerk, who negotiated the end of white minority rule...
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South Africa’s de Klerk brokered end to white rule
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's last white president F.W. de Klerk, who died on Thursday aged 85, stunned the world...
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Brazil country singer Marilia Mendonca killed in small airplane crash
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian country singer Marilia Mendonca was killed on Friday along with her manager and...
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Greek socialist party leader dies at 57 after battle with cancer
ATHENS (Reuters) -Fofi Gennimata, leader of Greece's socialist opposition Movement for Change, died on Monday after a long battle with...
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AQ Khan, father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb and centre of proliferation scandal, dies
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Abdul Qadeer Khan, lionised at home as the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb despite admitting he was...
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Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) -Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France,...
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Eclectic French tycoon Tapie, dies aged 78
By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - Bernard Tapie's rags-to-riches life story of a failed pop singer-turned-tycoon who dabbed into politics,...
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Rwandan genocide ‘kingpin’ Bagosora dies in Mali prison – sources
BAMAKO (Reuters) - A former Rwandan army colonel who was accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800,000 people during the...
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Egypt’s former military ruler Tantawi, key figure in 2011, dies at 85
By Mahmoud Mourad and Mohamed Wali CAIRO (Reuters) -Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the military council that...
Read moreCharlotte Johnson Wahl, mother of UK PM Johnson, dies at 79 -The Telegraph
(Reuters) - Charlotte Johnson Wahl, a professional painter and the mother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has died at...
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Abimael Guzman, founder of Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, dies at 86
By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) - Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path rebels who nearly toppled the Peruvian state...
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Jorge Sampaio, who showed extent of Portuguese presidential powers, dies at 81
LISBON (Reuters) - Former Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio, who made national history in 2005 with an extraordinary use of his...
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