JUST IN: Former powerful US Secretary of State, Colin Powell dies of COVID-19 complications

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Former powerful United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell has died of COVID-19 complications.

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Tributes have been pouring for Powell who died on Monday aged 84, his family announced.

He rose to become the first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush.

Powell, who was fully vaccinated, later prompted controversy for his role in garnering support for the Iraq War.

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“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said in a statement, thanking the staff at the Walter Reid Medical Center “for their caring treatment”.

Obituary: Colin Powell
George W Bush was among the first to pay tribute to “a great public servant” as well as “a family man and a friend” who “was such a favourite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom – twice”.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair – who worked closely with Powell during the early years of the Iraq War – said he was someone of “immense capability and integrity” who was “a great companion, with a lovely and self-deprecating sense of humour”.

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Mr Powell, a moderate Republican who broke with his party to endorse Barack Obama in 2008, 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.

However, he would say himself that his own legacy had been damaged by a speech to the United Nations Security Council which used faulty intelligence to back the invasion of Iraq.

“It was painful. It’s painful now,” Mr Powell told ABC News in 2005.

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