HONG KONG — Yang Bing-yi, the founder of Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese restaurant chain whose signature soup dumplings have attracted crowds around the world and one of the rare Asian restaurants to win a Michelin star, has died at 96. The company announced his death in a statement on Saturday. It did not say […]
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Teacher in France Dies After Student Stabs Her, Government Says
PARIS — A teacher at a Catholic high school in a town in southwest France died on Wednesday after a 16-year-old student stabbed her, a spokesman for the French government, Olivier Véran, said. A local prosecutor, Jérôme Bourrier, said his office had opened a homicide investigation and that the student, who was not previously known […]
Hazel McCallion, No-Nonsense Canadian Mayor for 36 Years, Dies at 101
Hazel McCallion, who as the longest-serving mayor in Canadian history transformed the sleepy Toronto suburb of Mississauga into a multicultural dynamo and the country’s sixth-largest city, died at her home there on Jan. 29, nine years after she ended her 36-year run. She was 101. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario and a close friend […]
Solomon Perel, Jew Who Posed as a Hitler Youth to Survive, Dies at 97
Solomon Perel, a German Jew who saved himself from death by posing as a member of the Hitler Youth during World War II and later felt gratitude for the Nazi he pretended to be in order to live, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Givatayim, Israel, near Tel Aviv. He was 97. His […]
Mukarram Jah, Heir to an Opulent Throne He Abandoned, Dies at 89
As the Mughal Empire waned and the British came to control India in the 18th and 19th centuries, the nizams cooperated profitably with their colonial overseers. Mr. Jah’s predecessor as nizam, his grandfather Osman Ali Khan, saw an opportunity to expand the authority of the royal family in the 1920s, when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the […]
George Pell, Cardinal Whose Abuse Conviction Was Overturned, Dies at 81
Cardinal George Pell, an Australian cleric and adviser to Pope Francis who became the most senior Roman Catholic prelate sent to prison for child sexual abuse, before later being acquitted of all charges, died on Tuesday in Rome. He was 81. The cause of death was complications from hip replacement surgery, according to Peter Comensoli, […]
Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews
Adolfo Kaminsky was born on Oct. 1, 1925, in Buenos Aires. His parents, Salomon and Anna (Kinoël) Kaminsky, were Russian Jews who met in Paris in 1916. His mother had fled the pogroms in Russia; his father was a journalist for a Jewish Marxist newspaper. When the Bolsheviks overthrew the czarist government, France expelled sympathizers […]
Pope Benedict XVI Dies – The New York Times
The retired Pope Benedict XVI, left, with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2020.Credit…Vatican Media, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Pope Benedict XVI, the eminent German theologian and conservative enforcer of Roman Catholic Church doctrine who broke with almost 600 years of tradition by resigning and then living for nearly a decade behind Vatican […]
Pavel Antov, Founder of Russian Meat Company, Dies in India
A wealthy Russian businessman and lawmaker was found dead over the weekend in India, shortly after another Russian national he was traveling with died at the same hotel, local media reported, citing police. The two men, Pavel Antov and Vladimir Budanov, were part of a tourist group visiting the Indian state of Odisha. Mr. Budanov, […]
Jose Maria Sison, Philippine Communist Party Founder, Dies at 83
Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its long-running guerrilla insurgency, died on Friday in exile in the Netherlands, where he had lived for decades. He was 83. His death, in a hospital in Utrecht, was announced by a spokesman for the party, Marco Valbuena, who called him a […]