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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

31 août 2026 à 20:16
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Author Wendell Berry in 2012. The historian Page Smith hailed him as “a prophetic American voice of our day.”

Édouard Balladur, Embattled French Prime Minister, Dies at 97

31 août 2026 à 15:57
His time in office coincided with France’s fraught role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the corruption scandal known as the Karachi affair.

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Édouard Balladur in 1995, when he ran a failed campaign for the French presidency; he had served as prime minister between 1993 and 1995.

Azriel Blackman, Airline Mechanic for 80 Years, Dies at 100

29 août 2026 à 17:09
With a career commemorated by Guinness World Records, he started as an apprentice in 1942 and worked on a panoply of propeller-driven and jet aircraft until he retired in 2022.

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Azriel “Al” Blackman, then 91, in 2017, the year American Airlines, his longtime employer, dedicated a Boeing 777-200 in his name.

George Cave, C.I.A. Agent With a Role in Iran-Contra, Dies at 97

28 août 2026 à 18:10
He worked throughout the Middle East before joining a secret team that tried to obtain the release of Western hostages in Lebanon in exchange for arms sent to Iran.

James Roche, Embattled Air Force Secretary, Dies at 86

28 août 2026 à 17:33
A former executive in the weapons industry, he led the Air Force amid reports of sexual assault at its service academy and a multibillion-dollar procurement scandal.

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James Roche at the Pentagon in October 2001. He was named Air Force secretary earlier that year after retiring from the Navy and working as a defense contracting executive.

Harald V, Norway’s King as Tradition and Modernity Collided, Dies at 89

28 août 2026 à 14:14
His 35-year reign opened an ancient monarchy to marriages with so-called commoners and to an incendiary association with Jeffrey Epstein.

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King Harald V of Norway at his consecration ceremony in 1991.

Ratko Mladic, Murderous ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ Dies at 83

27 août 2026 à 12:57
A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II.

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Ratko Mladic in Sarajevo in 1994. He was captured in 2011 and put on trial for genocide and war crimes.

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97

27 août 2026 à 05:40
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.

Man Who Told of a Childhood With Wolves Dies at 80

24 août 2026 à 16:11
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja’s improbable story of a wild youth became the subject of a study, and inspired a novel and film.

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Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, right, in Madrid in 2010 at the premiere of “Among Wolves,” a film based on his life, with Juan José Ballesta, left, and Manuel Camacho, the actors who played him as an adult and child.

Man Who Told of a Childhood With Wolves Dies at 80

24 août 2026 à 13:39
The improbable story of Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja’s wild youth became the subject of a study, as well as inspiring a novel and a film.

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Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, right, in Madrid in 2010 at the premier of “Among Wolves,” a film depicting his life.

Nancy Kassebaum, First Woman to Chair a Major Senate Panel, Dies at 94

22 août 2026 à 16:28
A moderate Republican from Kansas, she served three terms before tiring of political strife. “I couldn’t get elected today,” she said in 2013.

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Senator Nancy Kassebaum in 1995, outside her office on Capitol Hill. During the first of her three terms, she was the only woman in the Senate.

Frank Smith, Who Served 70 Years for Murder, Dies at 101

22 août 2026 à 09:32
One of the longest-serving prisoners in American history, he was sent to death row in 1950 before his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Yvette Roudy, France’s First Minister for Women’s Rights, Dies at 97

22 août 2026 à 05:02
Maintaining that access to abortion was as much a matter of economic equality as women’s rights, she successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions.

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Yvette Roudy in 2006. After her death, President Emmanuel Macron of France saluted her for “a life spent making equality between men and women a real right” and for her “untiring capacity for indignation.”

Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State, Dies at 92

20 août 2026 à 22:14
A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.

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Nancy Kissinger, then Nancy Maginnes, with her future husband, Henry A. Kissinger, in Jerusalem in 1970. She was a fierce defender of Mr. Kissinger, a polarizing figure with a hotly disputed reputation.

Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State, Dies at 92

20 août 2026 à 22:14
A foreign policy specialist, she was politically savvy and well versed in global issues, and traveled widely with her husband, Henry A. Kissinger, on his diplomatic missions.

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Nancy Kissinger, then Nancy Maginnes, with her future husband, Henry A. Kissinger, in Jerusalem in 1970. She was a fierce defender of Mr. Kissinger, a polarizing figure with a hotly disputed reputation.

Bou Meng, Rare Survivor of Khmer Rouge Torture House, Dies at 85

15 août 2026 à 21:34
Saved by his ability to paint, he was one of only a handful of prisoners to make it out of the brutal prison Tuol Sleng.

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Bou Meng, who was imprisoned at the notorious Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture facility Tuol Sleng, in 2009 at the prison, which became a genocide museum.

John Carro, Jurist Who Had Early Brush With Lee Harvey Oswald, Dies at 98

14 août 2026 à 16:04
Decades before his rise to the New York State appellate court, he was a probation officer who tried to help Mr. Oswald, then a teenager living in the Bronx.

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John Carro in 1998. Before he became a lawyer, he was a police office, a social worker and a mayoral aide.

Mary Morello, Free Speech Activist Who Defended Explicit Lyrics, Dies at 102

15 août 2026 à 11:38
An Illinois teacher — and the mother of the rock star Tom Morello — she took on Tipper Gore during culture war skirmishes over warning labels on records.

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Ms. Morello in 2016. She was in her mid-60s when, with a nudge from her rocker son, she retired from teaching to found Parents for Rock and Rap in 1987.

Johanna Fernández, Historian of the Young Lords, Dies at 55

12 août 2026 à 17:05
She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.

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Johanna Fernández at her home in 2014, with some of the police surveillance records which she used in her research.

Zhu Rongji, Former Premier Who Pushed China to a Market Economy, Dies at 97

12 août 2026 à 19:13
As a vice premier and then premier, he helped transform China into the world’s leading manufacturing power and led his country into the World Trade Organization.

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