India, July 12 -- US President Donald Trump hailed Senator Lindsey Graham, a fellow Republican, as "a true American Patriot" upon his death. "Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!! DETAILS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO FOLLOW. So sad!" Trump posted on Truth Social.

Graham, the South Carolina senior senator and foreign policy hawk who changed from a Donald Trump skeptic to one of the US president's strongest allies, died on Saturday. He was 71.

The cause of death was "a brief and sudden illness", Graham's office said in a post on X that offered no additional details.

He was in Kyiv, Ukraine, as recently as...