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Acclaimed Iranian film director Kiarostami dies at age 76

By NASSER KARIMI
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...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, dead at 87

By VERENA DOBNIK
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...
Elie Wiesel was a witness to evil and a symbol of endurance

By VERENA DOBNIK
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...
'Deer Hunter,' 'Heaven's Gate' director Michael Cimino dies

By ANDREW DALTON
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...
Correction: Obit-Scotty Moore story

The Associated Press
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...
Man believed to be oldest Pullman porter dies at 106

The Associated Press
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...
Former French PM Michel Rocard dies at 85

The Associated Press
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...
Caroline Aherne, comedian behind 'Royle Family,' dies at 52

The Associated Press
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...
Wiesel wrote more than 40 books about Holocaust, his life

By The Associated Press
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...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, dead at 87

By VERENA DOBNIK
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...

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