Veteran foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has passed away at his home near Dublin of a suspected stroke. According to the Irish Times, the 74-year-old was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Hospital after becoming unwell on Friday and died shortly after. The award-winning journalist started his career at Britain’s Sunday Express before moving to Belfast in 1972 to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland for the Times. A fluent Arabic speaker, he later became the paper’s Middle East correspondent where he famously reported on the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) and the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which both happened in 1979, as well as the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). In 1989, after falling out with the Rupert Murdoch-owned […]
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2nd November 2020, 03:41 PM
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk dies at 74
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