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Jazz adventurer committed to liberty

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Rupert Murdoch’s mother dies aged 103

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Nov 29, 2012

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Le Monde hit by sudden death of editor

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Enemy of Mexico’s drug cartels

María Gorrostieta, mayor of Tiquicheo, 1976-2002

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Valerie Eliot, literary executor, 1926-2012

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An astute chronicler of power relations

Former Financial Times reporter John Bourne dies, age 86

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Bard who mocked Somalia’s militants

Warsame Shire Awale, 1950s-2012, poet, playwright and performer

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Emile Allais, skier, instructor and innovator, 1912-2012

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Magazine magnate at forefront of finance

Padraic Fallon, writer and publisher, 1946-2012

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Former Cambodian king Sihanouk dies

Norodom Sihanouk lived his final years in Beijing

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Former US Senator Arlen Specter dies at 82

Switched from Republican to Democrat in 2009

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Jean Taittinger, vintner and politician, 1923-2012

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Obituary: Roy Bates, who set up a principality on an old sea fort

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Guerrilla who led Algeria’s democratic push

Ex-president Chadli Bendjedid, seen as ‘father of pluralism and democracy’, dies of cancer

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