Hella Pick, the Guardian’s esteemed and pioneering former foreign correspondent and diplomatic editor, has died at the age of 96. Her career spanned more than seven decades, during which she covered geopolitical upheavals and tectonic shifts in global power, and met numerous world leaders. Her last article, on the war in Gaza, was published in January. Pick’s godchildren Matthew Fyjis-Walker and Jemima Fyjis-Walker said she died in the early hours of Thursday. Although she was very weak and struggled to speak, she had insisted on listening to the lunchtime news on Wednesday, a day of particularly bleak reports. After breaking...