But like most of the information coming out of Tehran, it is impossible to verify her name -- Neda -- or the circumstances of her apparent death.
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Mr Assad senior plucked his son from an ophthalmology course in London and brought him to Syria as heir-apparent on the death of his brother, Basil, in 1994.
His last public appearance, before his death of apparent cardiac arrest, was to announce a series of 50 sold-out concerts in London.
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The news of Khalouf's apparent defection and the death of Hasan came the same day a human rights group accused Syrian forces of using an increasing number of cluster bombs in residential areas.
The abolitionists' success, after nearly two centuries of trying, has occurred everywhere despite apparent public backing for the death penalty.
The next day an executive from a company implicated in the same scandal fell to his death in another apparent suicide.
Her clothing had been set on fire following her death in an apparent effort to cover up her injuries and destroy evidence.
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Cambridgeshire Police said her clothing had been set on fire following her death in an apparent effort to cover up her injuries and destroy evidence.
After one death due to an apparent side effect, Biogen (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people ) and partner Elan (nyse: ELN - news - people ) pulled their multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri, which had been approved with rapid speed by the Food and Drug Administration only four months before.
Some Suharto-watchers attribute the apparent breakdown of family discipline to the death of the president's wife, Tien, in April 1996.
Instead, no one has contacted them and it is apparent now that Taylor is using this death to further injure the Armstrongs.
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Mr Assad, who trained as an eye doctor, never wanted to succeed his father but was made heir-apparent after his elder brother's death in a car crash.
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The official said the family has been notified of the death and that it is being investigated as an apparent suicide.
It is an impression of the moment of death, and only at the last is it apparent that this circular movie may have been one long flashback.
Her death comes exactly five weeks, almost to the hour, after the apparent suicide of David Wilson, her record producer boyfriend and father of her infant boy.
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An unhinged gun fanatic was thrown in jail last night for making a series of anonymous death-threat phone calls to Rep. Carolyn Maloney -- in apparent protest of her proposed legislation requiring gun owner insurance.
As the world responded to Jackson's death, some observers paused from the accolades to reflect on celebrity's apparent toll.
In 1988, Michael Dukakis lost a double-digit lead and then the election after he answered without any apparent feeling or emotion, moderator Bernie Shaw's question as to whether he theoretically would support the death penalty for someone who raped his wife.
The launch plans mark a setback to apparent progress in U.S. efforts to negotiate a halt to North Korea's nuclear ambitions after the death of dictator Kim Jong Il and the ascension of his son, Kim Jong Eun.
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