Meanwhile, Nato foreign ministers debate increased weapons spending as police investigate the bloc’s purchases of military equipment
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John McCain dies at 81
US flags fly at half-mast outside the Capitol, Washington DC
President hoped to give voters chance to decide on 8-hour work days and double pay for holiday work
LONG-SERVING Arizona senator John McCain died at the weekend from a brain tumour, just hours after announcing that he would discontinue medical treatment.
The former naval pilot, who was shot down over the Vietnamese capital Hanoi in 1967 and held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, was routinely eulogised as a war hero by political allies and opponents in the US.
Former president Barack Obama, who defeated Mr McCain in the 2008 election, said that, despite their differences, they shared a “fidelity to something higher — the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed.”
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