State media: Vietnam Communist Party chief Trong dies at 80

FILE - Vietnam's General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and US President Joe Biden, unseen, deliver remarks at the Communist Party of Vietnam Headquarters, in Hanoi, Sept. 10, 2023.

Vietnam's Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has died, state media said on Friday, after holding the country's most powerful position for 13 years. He was 80.