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  1. Gordon Brown

    Dr James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Minister for the Civil Service, the current Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and the Leader of the Labour Party since 27 June 2007. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from 1997 to 2007.

  2. Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.

  3. Ehud Olmert

    Ehud Olmert ; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert became Prime Minister on April 14, 2006 but had been exercising the powers of the office since they were transferred to him on January 4, 2006 after Ariel Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke. Olmert's title for that period was Acting Prime Minister. Olmert has previously been the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Finance minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, …

  4. Manmohan Singh

    Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, …

  5. Ariel Sharon

    "' (also known by his diminutive Arik אָרִיק"' is a former Israeli Prime Minister and military leader whose political career was ended by a massive stroke that he suffered in early 2006. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though the powers of his office were exercised by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Sharon's stroke on 4 January2006. At that time, Sharon fell into a coma; as of July 2007, …

  6. Benazir Bhutto

    She was elected co-chairwoman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) along with her mother, and when free elections were finally held in 1988, she herself became Prime Minister. At 35, she was one of the youngest chief executives in the world, and the first woman to serve as prime minister in an Islamic country.

  7. Vladimir Putin

    President Vladimir Putin said air strikes did nothing to settle the situation around Iraq and urged any action taken against it to be sanctioned by the United Nations.

  8. Kevin Rudd

    Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957), is the leader of the federal Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament. He has been a member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1998, representing the Division of Griffith, Queensland. Should Labor win a majority of lower house seats at the upcoming 2007 federal election, Rudd will succeed John Howard and become the 26th Prime Minister of Australia.

  9. Nicolas Sarkozy

    Nicolas Sarkozy is the current President of France and "ex officio" Co-prince of Andorra. He was elected President of the French Republic on 6 May, 2007 after defeating left wing Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the 2007 election. Before his presidency, he was leader of the UMP right wing party.

  10. Robert Mugabe

    Robert Gabriel Mugabe KCB (born on February 21, 1924) is the President of Zimbabwe. He has been the head of government in Zimbabwe since 1980, first as Prime Minister and later as first executive President. He rose to prominence in the 1970s when he led the Zimbabwe African National Union in guerrilla warfare against the white-dominated government of Rhodesia until the government accepted universal suffrage and black-majority rule.

  11. Margaret Thatcher

    She was born Margaret Hilda Roberts on October 13 , 1925 , in the town of Grantham , the daughter of a grocer. Educated at Somerville College, Oxford , she studied chemistry and worked as a research chemist. After marrying Denis Thatcher in 1951 , she returned to study law and later briefly worked as a tax lawyer . Her twin children, Carol and Mark were born in 1953 .

  12. Winston Churchill

    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history.

  13. Jacques Chirac

    Jacques René Chirac is a French politician and a former President of France. He served from 1995 until May 16 2007 and was re-elected in 2002. As President he was also an "ex officio" Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. After completing his studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration, Jacques Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics.

  14. Ehud Barak

    Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On June 12, 2007, he completed a political comeback by winning election to the Labor Party leadership. He was appointed as Israeli Minister of Defence, …

  15. Junichiro Koizumi

    is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. Widely seen as a maverick leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he became known as an economic reformer, focusing on Japan's government debt and the privatization of its postal service. In 2005, Koizumi led the LDP to win one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern Japanese history. Koizumi also attracted international attention through his deployment of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, …

  16. Nawaz Sharif

    Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was born on December 25, 1949 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

  17. Yitzhak Rabin

    "'"', <font color="white">a</font>(March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel with two periods in office, from 1974 until 1977 and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. In 1994 during his second term Rabin won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, for their efforts towards peace which culminated in the Oslo Accords.

  18. Anwar Ibrahim

    Dato' Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (born August 10, 1947) is a former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Malaysia. Early in his career, he became a protege of the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohamad, but subsequently emerged as the most prominent critic of Mahathir's administration. In 1999, he was sentenced in a highly controversial trial to six years in prison for corruption and in 2000 to another nine years in prison for sodomy.

  19. Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba. He led the revolution overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and shortly after was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba. Castro became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic. In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers.

  20. Sonia Gandhi

    Sonia Gandhi, born Sonia Antonia Maino on December 9, 1946, is an Italian-born Indian politician, the President of the Indian National Congress and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. She is the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in the Lok Sabha, and the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party.

  21. Shinzo Abe

    ; born September 21 1954is the current Prime Minister of Japan, elected by a special session of the National Diet on September 26 2006. He is Japan's youngest post-World War II prime minister and the first born after the war. Abe was born into a political family, and studied political science in Japan, and had studied in the United States. He worked in the private sector until 1982 when he began work in several government jobs.

  22. Dmitry Medvedev

    Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев; born September 14, 1965 in Leningrad), is a Russian politician and businessman. He was appointed first deputy prime minister of the Russian government on November 14, 2005. Formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, he is also the chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, a post he has held for the second time since 2000.

  23. John Major

    Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a former British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. During his time as Prime Minister, the world went through a period of transition after the end of the Cold War. This included the growing importance of the European Union and the debate surrounding Britain's ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.

  24. Shaukat Aziz

    Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan.... ... Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan....

  25. Indira Gandhi

    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (November 19, 1917 - October 31, 1984) was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 to 1984. Born in the politically influential Nehru dynasty, she grew up in an intensely political atmosphere. Her grandfather Motilal Nehru and father Jawaharlal Nehru were prominent Indian nationalist leaders. While studying at Somerville College, University of Oxford, …

  26. Michelle Malkin

    Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. She is a social and political conservative who makes frequent guest appearances on national syndicated radio programs and on television networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, and C-SPAN. As well as her written blog, she posts regular video blogs.

  27. Menachem Begin

    "'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Though revered by many Israelis, Begin’s legacy remains highly controversial and divisive. As the leader of Irgun, Begin played a central role in Jewish military resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine, but was strongly deplored and consequently sidelined by mainstream Zionist leadership.

  28. Rafik Hariri

    Rafik Baha ad-Din Hariri - (November 1 1944 - February 14 2005), a self-made billionaire and business tycoon, was the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on 20 October 2004. He headed five cabinets during his tenure. Hariri played a leading role in the reconstruction of Beirut. Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005 when explosives equivalent to around 1000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove past the St.

  29. Rajiv Gandhi

    Rājiv Ratna Gāndhī (August 20, 1944 - May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from the Gandhi family) from his mother's death on 31 October, 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following a general election defeat. Becoming the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40, he is the youngest person to date to hold that office.

  30. Ismail Haniyeh

    Ismail Haniyeh ; born January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. In the wake of Hamas' military seizure of control of the Gaza Strip, he was dismissed from office on June 14, 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; however, …

  31. Bertie Ahern

    Bertie Ahern , Prime Minister

  32. Fouad Siniora

    Fouad Siniora , the Prime Minister of Lebanon, is mightily vexed by Israel.A military solution to Israel’s savage war on Lebanon and the Lebanese people is both morally unacceptable and totally unrealistic. We in Lebanon call upon the international community and citizens everywhere to support my country’s sovereignty and end this foll

  33. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

    Atal Bihari Vajpayee (born December 25, 1924),(ਅਟਲ ਬਿਹਾਰੀ ਵਾਜਪੇਈ) was the Prime Minister of India, briefly in 1996, and again from March 19, 1998 until May 19, 2004. He retired from active politics in December 2005, but still comments on and participates in national debates of policy, welfare and defence. He is a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Indian politics in general.

  34. Jawaharlal Nehru

    Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. He was also a key figure in International politics in the post-war period, and was one of the founding figures of the non-alignment. Popularly referred to as Panditji ("Scholar"), Nehru was also a writer, scholar and amateur historian, …

  35. Lee Hsien Loong

    Lee Hsien Loong (born February 10 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He also serves as the Minister for Finance. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the government-owned Temasek Holdings.

  36. Jacqui Smith

    Jacqueline Jill Smith is a British politician who has been Home Secretary since June 28, 2007 and is the current Member of Parliament for Redditch, since 1997. She was made a Member of the Privy Council in 2003. Smith is the first female Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, and only the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State — after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary).

  37. Asif Ali Zardari

    President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday offered peace talks to militants in Pakistan's troubled northwest even as security forces claimed to have killed more than 50 rebels in an operation in the tribal belt. ... Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said Thursday that Pakistan would continue to pursue a resolution of the Kashmir dispute based on the wishes of the Kashmiri people.

  38. Meles Zenawi

    Meles Zenawi is an Ethiopian politician, and the Prime Minister of the country since August, 2000.

  39. Lee Kuan Yew

    Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH (born September 16, 1923; also spelled Lee Kwan-Yew), was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. Since stepping down from office he has remained one of the most influential politicians in Singapore. Under the administration of Singapore's second prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, he served as Senior Minister. He currently holds the specially created post of Minister Mentor under his son Lee Hsien Loong, …

  40. Khaleda Zia

    Khaleda Zia (born 15 August 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman in the country's history to hold that position, and then again from 2001 to 2006. She is the widow of assassinated President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman, and leads his old party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. After 35 years of independence of Bangladesh she has ruled the country for about 10 years (longest period).

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