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NEW YORK: Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York's Times Square in a photograph symbolizing the end of World War Two, has died at age 92, media reports said on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES: Michael Cimino, whose roller-coaster career as a Hollywood film director included Oscar-winner "The Deer Hunter" and legendary box office flop "Heaven's Gate," has died. He was 77.

ROME: At least 700 migrants may have died at sea this past week in the busiest week of migrant crossings from Libya towards Italy this year, Medecins San Frontieres and the UN Refugee agency said on Sunday.

ONTARIO: Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network's "60 Minutes" show for 46 years, has died at age 84, a few days after his retirement, the network announced on Thursday.

KARACHI: Renowned Urdu writer Fatima Surayya Bajiya passed away at the age of 85 on Wednesday evening, ARY News reported.

PARIS: The suspected mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital on Wednesday, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday.

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf has said at least 205 Pakistani pilgrims died during Hajj this year for reasons including Mina stampede and crane collapse.

PESHAWAR: Mullah Omar, founder of the Afghan Taliban, died of natural causes in Afghanistan, his son said in a statement calling for unity and quashing rumours about his father's mysterious death amid a leadership dispute.

ISLAMABAD: Former DG Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General (R) Hameed Gul died of brain hemorrhage today, ARY News reported.

ANKARA: Turkey's former president and prime minister Suleyman Demirel, a giant figure in the country's politics for over half a century, died Wednesday, the state Anatolia news agency said. He was 90.

LOS ANGELES: Leonard Nimoy, who won fame and fans with his portrayal of logic-bound, half-alien Mr. Spock in the "Star Trek" TV series and movies, died on Friday. He was 83.

ISLAMABAD: An official autopsy report on the death of Reuters journalist Maria Golovnina has concluded that she died of asphyxiation, the cause of which "at this stage cannot be established."