GENEVA — The Latest on the death of former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan (all times local):
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Former U.S. president Barack Obama says former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan “embodied the mission of the United Nations like few others.”
Obama says in a statement that long after Annan “had broken barriers,” he “never stopped his pursuit of a better world.”
Annan rose through the U.N. ranks to become the first black African secretary-general in 1997.
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