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Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet leader, dead at 91
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow aged 91, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday. "Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness," the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said, quoted by the Interfax, TASS and RIA Novosti news agencies.
Madagascar police confirm killing 19 civilians after albino kidnap
Madagascar police confirmed Tuesday that officers killed 19 people and injured 21 others after opening fire on what was described as a lynch mob angered over the kidnapping of an albino child. "Nineteen people lost their lives and 21 are injured and are still being treated" at Ikongo hospital in the country's southeast, the national police said in a statement.
Outgoing UN rights chief Bachelet to be temporarily succeeded by deputy
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, whose term ends Wednesday, will be temporarily replaced by her deputy until her successor is named, the UN secretary-general's spokesperson said Tuesday. Until the appointment of a replacement, as "of the first of September, Nada Youssef Al Nashif, who is a deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, will be the officer in charge," he added.
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