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Newshour: World Leaders Pay Tribute to Kofi Annan

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18/08/2018 GMT

World Leaders Pay Tribute to Kofi Annan

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World leaders pay tribute to former UN chief Kofi Annan, who has died at the age of 80

World leaders have been paying tribute to the former UN secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan, following his death at the age of 80. Also in the programme: victims of the Genoa bridge collapse in Italy have been given a state funeral, and President Putin puts on his dancing shoes at the wedding of the Austrian Foreign Minister, bringing Cossacks and controversy.

(Photo: Kofi Annan pictured in 2006. Credit: EPA/MATTHEW CAVANAUGH)

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