Madeleine Albright: First female US secretary of state dies
Tributes are paid to the Czech immigrant who was the first woman to become the top US diplomat. …
As a diplomat, Albright helped shape the post-Soviet world during the Clinton administration, employing what she called “pragmatic idealism” to navigate uncharted geopolitical waters. That included, at times, an aggressive foreign policy that used US military might – in places like Iraq and the Balkans – when diplomacy failed.