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Coup underway in Burkina Faso, the president, the prime minister and the whole cabinet are being "held hostage" right now. Not sure how this will end but Africa has a bad reputation for such events..

 

Yes this is true. However the only report I have found is sketchy in detail but not particularly hysterical

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There are a bunch of articles about Helmut Kohl but they're all in German. I think it says that he's getting better but would someone look and tell us what's going on (I flunked German).

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There are a bunch of articles about Helmut Kohl but they're all in German. I think it says that he's getting better but would someone look and tell us what's going on (I flunked German).

 

He's recovering, can't attend his mates memorial service due to illness (Gleamed from google translate, pinch of salt advised)

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Coup underway in Burkina Faso, the president, the prime minister and the whole cabinet are being "held hostage" right now. Not sure how this will end but Africa has a bad reputation for such events..

The President has been freed

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34288932

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The governor of the Falkland Islands during the 1982 Argentinian occupation Mario Menendez has died http://zh.clicrbs.com.br/rs/noticias/noticia/2015/09/morre-repressor-argentino-mario-menendez-ex-governador-das-malvinas-4851705.html

Thatcher has sent a task force to greet him in He[you fill in the rest of this word]

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Former Japanese Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa dead at 93:

 

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/19/national/former-finance-minister-shiokawa-dies-at-93/#.Vf03nPntlBc

 

He also was a mentor of former PM Koizumi, transport minister, education minister and chief cabinet secretary.

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I know time is running out for me getting a unique and unnatural-death hit with Alexis Tsipras, but I applaud him for really doing everything to provoke it. I feared he was gone after announcing the snap elections, but there he's back again...

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Corbyn may like Hamas but at least he draws the line at ham arse

 

I'll get me coat!

 

But is it true David Cameron's pet name for his wife is...Babe!

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The political death has just occurred of the top republican politician in the USA John Boehner, who has just quit as House Speaker effective from late October. he has also quit his seat in Congress. http://www.bbc.com/news/34362675 The tea party finally won out :(

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High-ranking official of the Greek military junta, and prominent torturer, Theodoros Theofilogiannakos has died of cancer:

 

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/09/25/greek-military-junta-high-ranked-official-passes-away/

 

This leaves 102-year old Stylianos Pattakos as the last surviving junta official.

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LOL I was going to say...that's like 9. But goodness I'm running out of fingers.

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I would like to thank Denise Marshall for dying on 24 August, and as a result, as she was my joker, I was voted Player of the Month - August

 

It is a rare and much appreciated honour. I have sent her a message on her twitter which appears to be still active.

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Longest-serving U.S. congress member in history John Dingell hospitalized for heart procedure:

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-former-us-rep.-john-dingell-hospitalized-for-heart-procedure-2015-10?IR=T

 

Just yesterday, I checked his twitter feed and he seemed safe for this year. Still, most likely he's just another one of my growing list of death teases in my DDP team that also includes The King of Thailand, Helmut Kohl and Valerie Harper. I guess there are quite a couple of parallel universes where my team has decent 7-8 hits.

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Longest-serving U.S. congress member in history John Dingell hospitalized for heart procedure:

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-former-us-rep.-john-dingell-hospitalized-for-heart-procedure-2015-10?IR=T

 

Just yesterday, I checked his twitter feed and he seemed safe for this year. Still, most likely he's just another one of my growing list of death teases in my DDP team that also includes The King of Thailand, Helmut Kohl and Valerie Harper. I guess there are quite a couple of parallel universes where my team has decent 7-8 hits.

Whoa! That's big news (as you see he's on my one main list), many of my DP participants are from Michigan where Dingell served, and needless to say they'll be excited errrrrr sad to hear this.

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Longest-serving U.S. congress member in history John Dingell hospitalized for heart procedure:

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-former-us-rep.-john-dingell-hospitalized-for-heart-procedure-2015-10?IR=T

 

Just yesterday, I checked his twitter feed and he seemed safe for this year. Still, most likely he's just another one of my growing list of death teases in my DDP team that also includes The King of Thailand, Helmut Kohl and Valerie Harper. I guess there are quite a couple of parallel universes where my team has decent 7-8 hits.

Whoa! That's big news (as you see he's on my one main list), many of my DP participants are from Michigan where Dingell served, and needless to say they'll be excited errrrrr sad to hear this.

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I looked into it some more and was a bit surprised to see how quickly he has declined physically, for example, here: http://michiganjournal.org/2015/09/22/photos-former-us-congressman-john-dingell-visits-um-dearborn-for-student-governments-constitution-day/

Still, I think I probably chose him one year too soon, but I am not convinced of it anymore.

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