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The death of Kissinger, hailed by many as the architect of American foreign policy, was announced on Wednesday. Andrea Blanco and Ariana Baio report

Henry Alfred Kissinger was a German-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazi regime with his family as a teen in 1938, eventually settling in New York City. He went on to serve as national security adviser, secretary of state or as a special adviser in five US presidential administrations, becoming…

Kissinger was the only person to be White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time

Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023 at the age of 100, stood as a colossus of U.S. foreign policy. His influence on American politics lasted long beyond his eight-year stint guiding the Nixon and Ford administrations as national security adviser and secretary of state, with successive presidents, presidential…

Brilliant, abrasive and ruthlessly ambitious, Henry Kissinger towered over post-World War II US foreign policy like no one else and shaped a fateful new course for the world's relationship with China.

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

Henry Kissinger is the only man to have served as secretary of state and national security advisor at the same time. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize but drew heated criticism.

Influential US secretary of state to Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and Nobel Peace Prize winner remembered as arch practitioner of ‘realpolitik’ who was revered and reviled in equal measure, writes Ariana Baio

The towering diplomat and Nobel prize winner shaped decades of US foreign policy but was seen by critics as a war criminal

The Treasury deputy secretary is laying out a new approach to the digital asset industry.

Australia is not on track to meet its emissions reductions, a report from the Climate Change Authority has found, leading to calls for greater action.