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Peter Arnett died in Newport Beach, California, at age 91 from prostate cancer, his family said, following a long career as a frontline war correspondent who reported from Vietnam and Baghdad.Born in Riverton, New Zealand, in 1934, Arnett worked for the Southland Times, Bangkok World and The Associated Press before joining AP’s Saigon bureau in 1962 and winning the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.He joined CNN in 1981, became a household name during the 1991 Gulf War by remaining in Baghdad while many colleagues left, resigned from CNN after a retracted 1999 report, continued to report for international outlets, taught at Shantou University from 2007 and retired to Southern California in 2014; he is survived by his wife Nina Nguyen and their children Elsa and Andrew.
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Peter Arnett died in Newport Beach, California, at age 91 from prostate cancer, his family said, following a long career as a frontline war correspondent who reported from Vietnam and Baghdad. Born in Riverton, New...

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