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Desmond Tutu, South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies aged 90

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa`s struggle against white minority rule, has died aged 90, the presidency said on Sunday. Tutu was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the late 1990s and in recent years he was hospitalized on several occasions to treat infections associated with his cancer treatment.