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Vietnam’s Communist leader dies aged 80 creating power vacuum
Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died aged 80, creating a power vacuum. Trong died early on Friday afternoon “after a period of illness”, according to his medical …