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epa06973168 (FILE) - A handout file photo made available by the US Navy on 26 August 2018 shows then US Navy Lieutenant John Sidney McCain III, 13 January 1964. US Republican Senator John McCain has passed away at his home in Cornville, Arizona, USA on 25 August 2018, at the age of 81. His family announced on 24 August 2018, that he discontinued treatment for his aggressive brain cancer. McCain - a former naval aviator shot down on a mission over Hanoi, in North Vietnam, in October 1967, captured and made a prisoner of war (POW) until 1973 - was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama. EPA/US NAVY HANDOUT -- BLACK AND WHITE -- HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES