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US TV news legend Cronkite dies

The former US TV newscaster Walter Cronkite, known to millions as "the most trusted man in America", has died at the age of 92. Journalist Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame, remembers a man who had been "a voice of certainty in an uncertain world".

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