Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger dies aged 100

Mr Kissinger was born in southern Germany in 1923 before he fled Nazi Germany to the US in 1938

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Picture: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg News

Henry Kissinger, the US secretary of state who dominated foreign policy under former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, has died aged 100, his consulting firm Kissinger Associates said.

The firm said in a statement Mr Kissinger died at his home in Connecticut and is survived by his wife Nancy, two children, David and Elizabeth and his five grandchildren.