Colin Powell, former US secretary of state, dies of coronavirus complications

Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who became a war hero in the United States and the first black secretary of state but saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died on Monday of Covid-19 complications. He was 84.“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” his family wrote on Facebook, noting he was fully vaccinated.US President Joe Biden hailed Powell for embodying “the highest ideals of both warrior and…

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