Henry Kissinger is dead

Former US Secretary of State and Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger has died at his home, US media reports. He lived to be 100 years old.

Kissinger was Secretary of State between 1973 and 1977. In his role as US peace negotiator, he received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize during the ongoing Vietnam War, a prize he shared with his North Vietnamese counterpart Le Duc Tho, who refused to accept the award.

A few years later, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces, Kissinger offered to return the Peace Prize, but the Nobel Committee did not accept it.