MANILA (Reuters): Benigno Aquino, the only son of the Philippines' two enduring democracy icons and a former president, died in a Manila hospital on Thursday. He was 61.
Known popularly as Noynoy, he rode a wave of public emotion all the way to the presidency after his mother, Corazon Aquino, died in 2009.
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