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Israel ex-president Peres suffers ‘major’ stroke

by Joe Dyke with Mike Smith in Jerusalem RAMAT GAN, Israel (AFP) — Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding fathers, suffered a “major” stroke and was breathing with the aid of a respirator in intensive care early Wednesday. Nationwide concern mounted over the condition of 93-year-old Peres, widely respected as an elder statesman both in Israel and abroad. Peres suffered “a major stroke today with a component […]