John McCain, a war hero and towering figure in US politics, known for reaching across the aisle in an increasingly divided nation, died Saturday following a battle with brain cancer. “It’s been quite a ride,” McCain, who was tortured during five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, wrote in a memoir published earlier this year. Friends and colleagues traveled to Arizona to bid McCain farewell in the months since his cancer diagnosis in July 2017. “We are all in his debt,” said Obama, the Democrat to whom McCain lost the presidency in 2008. “Thank you Senator McCain for your service to the nation,” First Lady Melania Trump tweeted.

Source: Egypt Independent August 26, 2018 06:56 UTC