Former Indian PM Vajpayee Dies After Long Illness

India's former three-time Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee died Thursday in New Delhi. Vajpayee was hospitalized at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital for more than two months for a kidney infection and chest congestion. He had been in critical condition and reportedly on life support shortly before his death. The politician and poet ordered nuclear weapons tests in 1988 that fueled concerns of a nuclear war with neighboring Pakistan. But Vajpayee later...

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