Iraqi security sources told Reuters that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an American-led military operation in Syria. The leader was reportedly shot while trying to get his family out of Idlib to the Turkish border. The operation, taken after the identification of his hiding place in Brisha, a [...]
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Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died "peacefully" in a hospital in Bern in Switzerland after a brief illness at the age of 80. Annan, born in Ghana in 1938, was the seventh UN Secretary General, from 1997 to 2006, the first African to lead the UN. [...]
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Sergio Marchionne, one of the most brilliant Italian business executives, naturalized Canadian, died at the age of 66. Hospitalized in Zurich, he underwent surgery on his right shoulder in June, but the conditions of the former CEO of FCA and Ferrari have worsened in recent days to make his state irreversible. The last time that Marchionne [...]
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