Georgia opposition leader dies suddenly in London
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TBILISI/LONDON  - Wealthy Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, a leading opponent of President Mikhail Saakashvili, has died suddenly in London, his aides said on Wednesday.
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead Georgia's revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, died early Thursday in a friend's apartment from what officials claimed was an accidental gas leak from a heater.
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Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili dies of a heart attack, aides say.
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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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A Sri Lankan opposition minority Tamil parliamentarian was shot and killed on Tuesday, the military said.
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Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was apparently poisoned in London, has died.
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Ukrainian Transport Minister Heorhiy Kirpa, a supporter of the trailing candidate in Sunday's presidential election, was found dead in his house from a gunshot wound Monday, a spokesman for the nation's railways said.
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Bangladesh opposition Awami League&#39;s central leader Ivy Rahman, fatally wounded in the Aug 21 bomb attack on the party rally in Dhaka, died in the army hospital on Tuesday.
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Supporters of a candidate in a disputed  election in Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region stormed  government buildings on Friday and one protester was killed in  the melee, Russian media reported.
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Nanuli Shevardnadze, wife of former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, died Wednesday. She was 75.
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West Belfast Sinn Fein assembly member and councillor Michael Ferguson dies suddenly.
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Up to 1,000 people may have died in more than a week of riots and post-election violence in Kenya, opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Monday.
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An opposition lawmaker died at a hospital shortly after he was wounded in a shooting near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Tuesday, a hospital official said.
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Alfred Sherman, a one-time communist who later became a close adviser to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died at the age of 86.
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British police launched a major investigation Wednesday into the "suspicious" death of a wealthy Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet republic.
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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.