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PARIS, France (CNN) — Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, 75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but was seen by many Israelis as a ruthless terrorist and a roadblock to peace, died early Thursday in Paris. … Read full story

John H. Waller, a former high-ranking official in the CIA who also wrote a half-dozen books on espionage and other topics, died of complications from pneumonia Nov. 4. He was 81. … Read full obituary

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Oilman Colin McMillan, who was awaiting Senate confirmation as Navy secretary, died at his ranch from an apparent gunshot wound, and investigators said Friday it might have been self-inflicted. … Read full obituary

Police searching for Dr David Kelly, an official adviser on Iraqi arms at the centre of a row about a Government dossier on weapons of mass destruction, found a body today. … Read full story

Josh Daniel Speer, a 21-year-old Marine who died in a single-vehicle wreck Sunday, poses with his weapons in Iraq.

A Marine who was home for the first time since fighting in Iraq died Sunday morning when the vehicle he was driving veered off State 11 and crashed into some trees, authorities said.

Josh Daniel Speer, 21, died instantly about 8 a.m. while en route to his fiancee’s house, said Kent Dill, a Greenville County deputy coroner. … Read full obituary

SAN ANTONIO — Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. James Burwell, one of the first military aviators to fly using cockpit instruments, died recently at age 100. … Read full obituary

JERUSALEM (AP) — Isser Harel, an Israeli spy-master who directed the capture of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in 1960, died Tuesday, hospital officials said. He was 91. … Read full obituary

Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British historian who wrote a best-selling account of Hitler’s final days in the Berlin bunker but damaged his reputation 35 years later by authenticating forged Hitler diaries, died yesterday in Oxford, England. He was 89. … Read full obituary

Philip F. Berrigan, the former Roman Catholic priest who led the draft board raids that galvanized opposition to the Vietnam War in the late 1960’s, died on Friday in Baltimore after a lifetime of battling “the American Empire,” as he called it, over the morality of its military and social policies. He was 79. … Read full obituary

Alec Campbell, the last of the Gallipoli Anzacs, has died at the age of 103.

His death yesterday marks the passing of a generation who fought in the Dardanelles campaign.

Mr Campbell suffered a chest infection earlier this week and his condition deteriorated rapidly yesterday. He died at his Hobart nursing home about 6pm.

Prime Minister John Howard described Mr Campbell as the last living link to that group of Australians that established the Anzac legend. “It is a story of great valour under fire, unity of purpose and a willingness to fight against the odds that has helped to define what it means to be an Australian.” …

“Not only is he the last Australian Anzac, he is also the last known person anywhere in the world who served in that extraordinarily tragic campaign,” Mr Howard told parliament last night. … Read full obituary

There were times during the 444 days that Malcolm Kalp was held hostage in a US embassy on the other side of the globe that he was sure his life was over. … Read full obituary

Desmond Plunkett, who was one of the 76 men immortalised in the Steve McQueen film The Great Escape, died on February 14, Valentine’s Day, the Royal Air Forces’ Association said. … Read full obituary