Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100

A Republican party giant and Nobel peace prize winner, the former national security adviser was a key architect of US foreign policy

Henry Kissinger, who was national security adviser and secretary of state to Richard Nixon before becoming an eminence grise of world affairs, has died. He was 100.

His consulting firm Kissinger Associates announced his passing in a statement on Wednesday evening, but did not disclose a cause of death.