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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Helen Davidson, Andrew Roth, Chi Hui Lin, Justin McCurry, Lam Nguyen, Tom Phillips, Lorenzo Tondo and Rebecca Ratcliffe

Praise and criticism as world reacts to death of Henry Kissinger

Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger at the White House.
Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger at the White House on 24 January 1973. Photograph: AP

World leaders have offered condolences and praise for Henry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state, who died on Wednesday at the age of 100, as his death elicited sharply divided responses over his legacy.

Kissinger shared the 1973 Nobel peace prize for his role in negotiating an end to the Vietnam war but his foreign policy efforts in support of US interests were controversial, and his involvement in foreign conflicts and in overthrowing democratically elected governments around the world saw him branded by opponents as a war criminal.

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