The former president of India and long-serving opposition figure has died in hospital following an emergency surgery. Doctors confirmed that Mukherjee also tested positive for COVID-19 before passing away.

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Former President Barack Obama lamented the lack of U.S. leadership in the fight against climate change during a visit to Paris on Saturday, in a veiled rebuke of his Republican successor's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.