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Cecily Gemmell, Winston Churchill’s Last Surviving Secretary, Has Died

8 octobre 2026 à 16:11
Starting with the British leader at age 18, she traveled the world with him. “I was terrified of him,” she later recalled.

Margaret Papandreou, American-Born First Lady of Greece, Dies at 102

8 octobre 2026 à 14:53
The wife of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, she led reforms in the 1980s that helped legalize abortion and end other legal and social restrictions on women.

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Margaret Papandreou in 1986. “The women’s movement is a political movement,” she once said. “It is a social revolution.”

Nana Patekar, Indian Actor Who Embodied the Everyman, Dies at 75

8 octobre 2026 à 12:18
He brought the intensity of the stage to the screen and was praised for his craft and philanthropy. He was also accused of sexual harassment.

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Nana Patekar in 2023. He was a theater actor who brought intensity and coarse baritone to the screen.

‘Maricarmen,’ Whose Eviction Enraged Spaniards, Dies at 87

8 octobre 2026 à 02:37
María del Carmen Abascal, aged and ailing, became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis when she was evicted two weeks ago, prompting mass protests and triggering national elections.

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María del Carmen Abascal packs a bag with her belongings in Madrid last month.

Bill Harris Has Died. He Kidnapped Patty Hearst in 1974.

6 octobre 2026 à 22:19
He was a disillusioned Vietnam veteran looking for purpose when he joined a revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Bill Harris, center, after being captured in 1975, the year after the S.L.A. kidnapped Patty Hearst. Her family, he later said, “was in control of a media empire that we viewed as an arm of propaganda for the United States government.”

Jim Bakker, TV Evangelist Felled by Fraud and Sex Scandals, Dies

6 octobre 2026 à 01:38
With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.

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Jim Bakker in 1987. The television ministry he founded with his first wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, brought in as much as $129 million annually before he was felled by a sex scandal.

Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98

6 octobre 2026 à 09:55
The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane in 2011. Mr. Kane subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the African people.

Biljana Plavsic, a Former Bosnian Serb Political Leader, Has Died

4 octobre 2026 à 13:25
Biljana Plavsic, a Bosnian Serb, pleaded guilty to one count of crimes against humanity. She later recanted and said she “would do the same again.”

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Biljana Plavsic during her first appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague in 2001.

Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101

1 octobre 2026 à 17:32
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

Catherine Ringer, French Pop Icon of Eclectic Style, Dies at 68

25 septembre 2026 à 16:17
With her guitarist-partner, Fred Chichin, she formed Les Rita Mitsouko as a band that embraced a more multicultural France.

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Catherine Ringer performing in 2007.
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