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US flags fly at half-mast outside the Capitol, Washington DC
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.”
JOE DWYER of Sinn Fein reflects on the links between the Irish and Cuban struggles for independence and on Castro’s personal engagement with the cause of Irish freedom
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride