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Eugenie Blanchard, world's oldest person, dies at 114

Eugenie Blanchard, considered the world's oldest person, died Thursday at 114, news agencies reported.

Blanchard was born in February 1896, the sixth of 13 children, on the French Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy, but moved to Curacao and became a nun in 1920, according to Le Figaro.

A woman named Antisa Khvichava in the Republic of Georgia is said to be 130 years old, but her birth date cannot be independently verified, several news outlets reported.....

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