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Ex-US secretary of state Colin Powell dies

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KABUL (Pajhwok): Former US secretary of state Colin Powell has died from coronavirus-caused complications from at the age of 84 Covid-19, CNN reported.

In several Republican administrations, the first Black secretary of state helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st.

The ex-secretary’s family wrote on Facebook on Tuesday: "Gen. Powell, former US secretary of state and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19."

He was suffering from a cancer of plasma cells, Parkinson . . .

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