Warm tributes are being paid to Mario Soares, Portugal's former president and prime minister, who has died aged 92.

Admitted to hospital on December 13, he had mostly been in a coma since.

Soares was a central figure in the country's return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship.

Portugal's current premier Antonio Costa described him as a man who throughout his life had struggled for freedom.

"The loss of Mario Soares is the loss of someone who is irreplaceable in o…
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