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Madeleine Albright, first woman US secretary of state, dies at 84

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has died of cancer, her family announced [File: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War II but rose to become the first female US secretary of state, has died at age 84, her family said.

Albright was a tough-talking diplomat in a United States administration that hesitated to involve itself in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 1990s – the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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