Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State passed away on Wednesday, her family has confirmed. She was 84 years old.
Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two, was the first woman to hold that position. READ MORE: Amanda Bynes released from conservatorship after nearly 9 years Albright was a tough-talking diplomat in an administration that hesitated to involve itself in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 1990s – the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr.
Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th U.S. Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today.
The cause was cancer,” her family said on Twitter. READ MORE: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard $100M lawsuit: Elon Musk, James Franco among celebs to testify Meghan McCain reacted to the news, calling her a “champion of all women in politics”.
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