Obituaries
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Acclaimed Iranian film director Kiarostami dies at age 76
Jul 04, 2016 7:00 am - TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film "Taste of Cherry" won the prestigious Palme d'Or and who kept working despite government resistanc...
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Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, dead at 87
Jul 03, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wies...
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Elie Wiesel was a witness to evil and a symbol of endurance
Jul 03, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The frail, dapper man who sometimes greeted reporters in his Madison Avenue office spoke in an almost hushed voice, but with urgency, his hands gesturing...
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'Deer Hunter,' 'Heaven's Gate' director Michael Cimino dies
Jul 03, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Michael Cimino, the Oscar-winning director whose film "The Deer Hunter" became one of the great triumphs of Hollywood's 1970s heyday and whose disastr...
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Correction: Obit-Scotty Moore story
Jul 02, 2016 7:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - In a story June 29 about the death of guitarist Scotty Moore, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Moore stopped working with Elvis Presl...
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Man believed to be oldest Pullman porter dies at 106
Jul 02, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man believed to have been the oldest living Pullman porter has died at 106. A family friend told The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/29ctLu1 ) that...
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Former French PM Michel Rocard dies at 85
Jul 02, 2016 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - French authorities say former Socialist Prime Minister Michel Rocard has died at age 85 in a Paris hospital. French President Francois Hollande issued a sta...
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Caroline Aherne, comedian behind 'Royle Family,' dies at 52
Jul 02, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Caroline Aherne, a sharp-witted writer and star of the bittersweet working-class comedy "The Royle Family," has died from cancer at 52, her publicist annou...
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Wiesel wrote more than 40 books about Holocaust, his life
Jul 02, 2016 7:00 am - For more than a half-century, Elie Wiesel voiced his passionate beliefs to world leaders, celebrities and general audiences in the name of victims of violence and oppres...
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Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, dead at 87
Jul 02, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wies...