Longtime AP journalist Ed Blanche has died at age 76

BEIRUT (AP) — Family members say Ed Blanche, a longtime correspondent and Middle East editor for The Associated Press who covered transformative events from Northern Ireland to Lebanon, has died. He was 76.
Blanche died Sunday in Beirut after losing a battle with cancer, said his wife, Mona Ziade.
Blanche joined the AP in London in 1967 and went on to cover various crises around the world, including the 1967 Arab-Israeli war soon after he was hired as well as the Northern Ireland conflict.