Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has died aged 84 of Covid-19 complications, his family has announced.
He was a former top military officer who rose to become the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican George W Bush.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” a statement said.
“We want to thank the medical staff… for their caring treatment,” it added.
The statement said that he had been fully vaccinated against Covid.
Mr Powell became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading US politicians.
He also saw service and was wounded in Vietnam, an experience that later helped define his own military and political strategies.
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Covid: Thousands of children left without parents in Iran
By Rana Rahimpour
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https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.44.0/iframe.htmlMedia caption, “She keeps asking where daddy is”: Eliza’s father died of Covid two months after her fourth birthday
More than 51,000 children in Iran have lost a parent to the Covid-19 pandemic, Iranian welfare authorities say.
One such case is that of Eliza, aged four.
Eliza was very attached to her father. They read together, sang together, and he was always there to put her to bed.
But then one day he started coughing and was taken to hospital. Her father, who was 40, died of Covid.
“She gets very nervous if I’m out of her sight for one minute, she thinks I might not come back, like daddy,” says Afrooz, Eliza’s mother.
Eliza is one of thousands of children who are coping with the loss of a mother or father to Covid in Iran.
Source: BBC
