{"id":26676,"date":"2018-12-23T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26676"},"modified":"2018-12-23T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:22:43","slug":"former-uk-liberal-democratic-leader-paddy-ashdown-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26676","title":{"rendered":"Former UK Liberal Democratic leader Paddy Ashdown dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"71.0750507099\">\n<p>The former leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-kingdom.html\">UK<\/a>&#8216;s Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, has died at age 77 after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>Ashdown, born in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/india.html\">India<\/a> and raised in Northern Ireland, was a member of the Royal Marines and Special Services before turning to politics.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his domestic politics, Ashdown was also a force on the international scene, investigating war crimes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/bosnia.html\">Bosnia<\/a> and eventually giving evidence in the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Katia Lopez Hodoyan reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former leader of the UK&#8217;s Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, has died at age 77 after a brief illness. Ashdown, born in India and raised in Northern Ireland, was a member of the Royal Marines and Special Services before turning to politics. In addition to his domestic politics, Ashdown was also a force on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}