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Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State, dies at 84

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks before an interview in Washington, US. [Reuters]

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, her family said.

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