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Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies

FILE - U.S. ambassador Madeleine Albright speaks to the Security Council on May 7, 1994. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File) FILE - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, right, swears in James C. Hormel, left, as the new ambassador to Luxembourg at a State Department ceremony on June 29, 1999, in Washington. Hormel became the nation's first openly gay ambassador. Timothy Wu, center, holds the Bible. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Khue Bui, File) FILE - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shakes hands with U..S soldiers during her visit to Air Base Eagle near Tuzla, Aug, 30, 1998. About 6,000 US soldiers are deployed in Tuzla area in a peace keeping mission in Bosnia. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022.(AP Photo/Amel Emric, File) FILE - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, shakes hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, at the start of their bilateral talks at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Berne, Switzerland, on Nov. 15, 1997. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File) FILE - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, center, gets briefing on the situation around the border between two Koreas from American Sgt. Tim Ingoldsby, left, during her visit to guard post Ouelletle in the border village of the Panmunjom, north of Seoul, Feb. 22, 1997. Standing at right is U.S. Gen. Richard B. Myers. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Pool, File) FILE - United States Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright speaks to reporters following Security Council consultations regarding the situation in Iraq at U.N. Headquarters, on Sept. 4, 1996. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/David Karp, File) FILE - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 26, 2016. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) FILE - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright smiles as she shakes hands with Russian acting President Vladimir Putin, right, in Moscow's Kremlin, on Feb. 2, 2000. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File) FILE - Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat greets U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before the start of U.S. President Bill Clinton's address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 29 , 2000. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File) FILE - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, left, talks with Botswana's Health Minister Joy Phumaphi, in Gaborone on on Dec. 11, 2000, where Albright announced a U.S. government donation of 200 trailers to be used as HIV counseling centers across Botswana. Phumaphi holds a symbolic key with an attached AIDS ribbon. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa, File) FILE - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, toasts with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a dinner in Pyongyang, on Oct. 24, 2000.Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Chien-min Chung, Pool) FILE - President Bill Clinton confers with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before delivering the final statement at the Middle East Summit in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, on Oct. 17, 2000. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) FILE - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 22, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on NATO. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) FILE - President Barack Obama awards Madeleine Albright the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House, on May 29, 2012, in Washington. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) FILE - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks at a reception celebrating the completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center Pavilion at the State Department in Washington, Jan. 10, 2017. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)