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Former US secretary Colin Powell dies of COVID complications
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Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former US secretary of state Colin Powell speaks at the State Department in Washington, September 3, 2014. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
Colin Powell, a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state, has died from complications from COVID-19, his family says. He was 84.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family says in a statement posted to social media.
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