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6:14 CAT | 07 Jan 2017
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The former president of Portugal, Mario Soares, has died aged 92 in Lisbon. He had been hospitalised several days earlier.
Soares served as Portugal’s Prime Minister, twice, and then as President. Repeatedly arrested for political activity and exiled during the dictatorship, early in his career as a lawyer he defended dissidents.
He was born in 1924 in Lisbon, in the time of the short-lived First Portuguese Republic, still a colonial power then.
Source: Euronews
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