Madeleine Albright dies of cancer

Madeleine Albright is dead.

The first female US secretary of state died of cancer at the age of 84.Her family said Wednesday.

“She was surrounded by family and friends,” her family announced on Twitter. “We have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.” It said the cause was cancer.

President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the final four years of the Clinton administration, in 1997-2001.