Veteran Republican senator Bob Dole dies

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US presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole at a Republican Party event in South Carolina in March 1996. Photo: Reuters

Bob Dole, who overcame grievous World War 2 combat wounds to become a pre-eminent figure in US politics as a longtime Republican senator from Kansas and his party's unsuccessful 1996 presidential nominee, has died. He was 98.

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