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Vietnam’s Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong dies at 80: State media
Government says Trong died at a military hospital ‘due to old age and serious illness’. Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who was seen as the most powerful figure in the country, has died, according to state media, ending more …