21st Century

Kabila, the veteran guerrilla who had marched to power at the head of the Rwanda and Uganda backed alliance in 1997, had broken wi...

Djindjic, the philosopher and opposition leader who organized the Bulldozer Revolution and delivered Milosevic to The Hague in 200...

Hariri, the construction billionaire who rebuilt Beirut after the civil war as prime minister through the 1990s, had broken with t...

Politkovskaya had reported the second Chechen war from inside the wreckage of Grozny, exposed torture in the filtration camps, cat...

Bhutto, the first woman to head a Muslim-majority government, had returned from exile weeks earlier to contest the postponed elect...

Nemtsov, the reform governor of Nizhny Novgorod and first deputy prime minister of the 1990s who became the most credibly national...

Karlov, a career diplomat serving as ambassador to Turkey during the Syria war rapprochement, was speaking at the Cagdas Sanatlar ...

Cox, a first-term MP and former Oxfam aid worker who chaired the all-party group on Syria and campaigned for refugees, was walking...

Moise, a businessman elected in 2016 and ruling by decree after parliament lapsed, faced gangs, protests, and constitutional dispu...

Abe, the dominant politician of the Heisei and Reiwa eras whose Abenomics and security redefined Japan role, was speaking for a lo...

Villavicencio, a journalist and assemblyman who had investigated state oil corruption and received death threats he attributed to ...

Pim Fortuyn, a former sociology professor and columnist, founded his own party, the Pim Fortuyn List, in 2002 and rose rapidly in ...

Anna Lindh was a Social Democrat who served as minister for the environment and then foreign minister of Sweden from 1998, and was...

Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the Lion of Panjshir, was a commander of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet occupation, repeate...

Hrant Dink was an Armenian-Turkish journalist and editor-in-chief of the bilingual weekly Agos, who advocated dialogue between Tur...

Jamal Khashoggi was a veteran Saudi journalist and former adviser to members of the royal family who became a critic of the polici...

Daphne Caruana Galizia ran Running Commentary, a widely read blog that investigated corruption in Maltese politics and business, i...