[HIGHLIGHTS] Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who negotiated the first North American free trade agreement, dies at 84

Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who negotiated the first North American free trade agreement, dies at 84. The country's 18th prime minister (1984-1993) died peacefully and surrounded by his family, his daughter said in a post on X.

He led the country into the North American Free Trade Agreement, with the United States and Mexico, in 1992. He was close to US presidents Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush, promoted the thaw between Moscow and Washington in the aftermath of the Cold War.