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Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died at the age of 84, her family has said. Her family said in a statement: “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr Madeleine K Albright, the 64th US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today. “The cause was cancer. She was …

Former US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.