Khaleda Zia, former prime minister of Bangladesh, dead

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Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s First Female Prime Minister, Dies
Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister, whose decades-long rivalry with another woman at the helm of a dueling political dynasty shaped the fate of the young South Asian nation, died on...

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Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of Hasina, dies at 80
Khaleda Zia, former prime minister of Bangladesh, dead at 80
Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh's first female prime minister, dies at 80
Khaleda Zia, who became Bangladesh ’s first female prime minister in 1991 and went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina as they spent decades trading power, died Tuesday after a long illn...

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Scenes outside hospital after former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia dies, aged 80
Bangladesh's first female prime minister Khaleda Zia dies aged 80
Khaleda Zia: 'Shy housewife' who led Bangladesh in the 1990s and 2000s
But, following her husband's assassination in 1981, she rose to lead his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and served two terms as prime minister - first in the 1990s and then in the early 2000s.

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The legacy of Bangladesh’s first woman PM Khaleda Zia: Arch-rival of Sheikh Hasina, movement against military rule, chequered past with India
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Bangladesh's first woman PM Khaleda Zia dies at 80; son Tarique Rahman returns to lead BNP

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at the age of 80 after a prolonged illness. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson passed away at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka, where she had been on ventilator support since December 11.
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