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Costis Stephanopoulos, Greek president between 1995 and 2005, died aged 90 of pneumonia in an Athens hospital overnight last night, a source at the hospital confirmed, Sputnik International reported.

A lawyer by profession, Stephanopoulos was born in Patras in the country’s southwest in 1926 and served in various ministerial portfolios in the right-wing government from 1974 to 1981.