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Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (April 24, 1941 – December 13, 2010) was an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker.
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WASHINGTON -- Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, a special U.S. envoy on the Afghanistan war, remained in critical condition Sunday after surgery to fix a tear in t...
WASHINGTON -- Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke received telephone calls from the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan as he recovered from lifesaving surgery, co...
World leaders on Tuesday praised Richard Holbrooke as the "Bulldozer" diplomat who engineered the end of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II and sought to...
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Born: April 24, 1941 in New York City to German-Jewish refugeesWife: Kati Marton, journalist and rights advocateChildren: Two sons, David and Anthony, born during hi...
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U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Pakistan dies after heart complications
WASHINGTON -- Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan , died Monday after undergoing emergency heart s...
BRUSSELS -- World leaders on Tuesday praised Richard Holbrooke as the "Bulldozer" diplomat who engineered the end of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II a...
Richard Holbrooke , who has just died at the age of 69, never became the diplomatic titan he always dreamed of being: But he was a real man for all that.There was al...
US officials abandoned plans to open a consulate in northern Afghanistan over security concerns -- despite spending more than $80 million on the site, The Washington...
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The president's year-end Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review wasn't expected to contain any major course corrections. But with the sudden loss of his top diplomat i...