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Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by...

>>William McDonald, The New York Times Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Updated: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Chadwick Boseman in Beverly Hills, Calif, Jan 30, 2018. Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. Boseman died on Aug. 28, 2020. (Brinson+Banks/The New York Times Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. It swept the world riding the back of the coronavirus. It galvanised a Black Lives Matter movement across the United States and abroad, sending people of all c...

The New York Times Log In By THE STAFF OF THE MORNING DEC. 30, 2020 Its been a newsy year. As 2020 comes to a close, how well do you remember it all? 1 of 30 Map colors refer to state-level results. Maine and Nebraska also award electoral votes based on congressional districts. By The New York Times. This map shows the 2020 presidential election — but with two states incorrectly flipped. Enter the name of one of the two states that show the wrong winner. (Blu...

Text size A growing number of world leaders and politicians -- most recently French President Emmanuel Macron -- have been infected by Covid-19, not least Donald Trump. Here is a roundup. Leaders infected Macron on Thursday became the latest world leader to test positive for Covid-19. He will self isolate for the next week, and "will continue to work and carry out his activities remotely," his office said in a statement. Before him US President Trump announced on October 2 he was positiv...

12:38 PM MYT FILE PHOTO: Argentinas soccer team head coach Diego Maradona smiles during their international friendly soccer match against Scotland at Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow, Scotland on November 19, 2008. One of the worlds greatest football genius died in November aged 60. - Reuters FOR many Asians, 2020 was a very hectic year mainly battling Covid-19 and others times it has been quite a sad outing after the 2020 Tokyo Games was postponed to 2021 and the world withnessi...

In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genre

A A The Arabs almost unanimously agree that most of the regional challenges facing them stem mainly from neighboring countries’ ambitions that seek to expand into the Arab world and revive their former expansionist glory. One reason to pose such questions at this time is that in the Arab world, as well as Europe and indeed the whole world, there is an effort to examine the direction that will be taken by the next American administration once President-elect Biden is sworn into offic...

2005: France and Netherlands vote against the Constitution The EU summit in Laeken, 14-15 December 2001. The Belgian presidency of the EU launched the Laeken Declaration which set in train the European Convention, chaired by Frances Valérie Giscard dEstaing (Photo: Council) Brussels, 23. Dec 2020, 07:12 Guy Verhofstadt MEP was Belgian prime minister from 1999 until 2008, the period that started with the Treaty of Nice and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon. In between, in 2001, under his leaders...

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 100. The two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to help reestablish democracy in his Peruvian homeland. March 4. Pierre Nkurunziza, 56. As president of Burundi, his 15-year-rule was marked by deadly political violence and a historic withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. June 8. William S. Sessions, 90. A former federal judge appointed by Preside...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87. The U.S. Supreme Court justice developed a cultlike following over her more than 27 years on the bench, especially among young women who appreciated her lifelong, fierce defense of women’s rights. Sept. 18. Rev. Robert Graetz, 92. The only white minister to support the Montgomery bus boycott and who became the target of scorn and bombings for doing so. Sept. 20. Michael Lonsdale, 89. An enigmatic giant of the silver screen and theater in France who worked with some of...