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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2010, file photo, Michael Somare, Prime then Minister of Papua New Guinea addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. Somare, a pivotal figure in Papua New Guinea’s independence and the South Pacific island nation's first prime minister, has died. He was 84. He died Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, after being diagnosed with a late-stage pancreatic cancer and admitted to a hospital on Feb. 19, his daughter Betha Somare said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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