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Published 10/20/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - Sister Emmanuelle, a nun who lived for years among scavengers in Cairo's slums and who has been compared to Mother Teresa for her fight to defend the rights of the poor, died Monday at age 99.
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