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Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, a key figure throughout five decades of Irish politics, has died.

Ireland’s state broadcaster RTE reported the death on Tuesday.

The 66-year-old former IRA commander resigned as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland and retired from politics in January, citing an unspecified illness.

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