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Hamid Karzai

• Afghanistan
• President
• Against the Taliban
• Knew what was going on with the Taliban
• Worked against them
• Warned the United States

Dilma Rousseff

• Brazil
• President
• Served three years in prison
• Was repeatedly tortured
• Divorced twice
• Degree in economics
• Underwent chemotherapy while being re-elected

Xi Jinping

• China
• President
• A son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongxun
• Married a folk singer
• Father was jailed
• Their daughter studies at Harvard  

Francois Holland

• France
• President
• No previous experience in national government position
• Had a 30 year relationship and four children
• Got divorced because he had an affair
• Extreme right physician father
• Public speaker mother

Joachim Gauk

• President
• Germany

Angela Merkel

• Chancellor
• Germany
• Been chancellor since 2005
• Top spot on FORBES list of most powerful women in the world for 8 of the past 10 years
• Degree in physics and physical chemistry
• Ph.D. in quantum physics

Pranab Mukherjee

• India
• President
• Taught Political Science
• Worked as a journalist
• One of the best financial ministers
• Had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi who took over as Prime Minister
• Started his own Congress/party

Ali Hoseini-Khamenei

• Iran
• Supreme Leader
• Took part in street protest against the U.S.
•  imprisoned multiple times
• Elected president twice
• Became Supreme Leader 1989
• Been in charge for 24 years

Hasan Fedeidun Ruhani

• President
• Iran
• Served on the Supreme National Security Council
• Doesn’t go along with the president before him
• Doesn’t want to drop a bomb on Israel

Shimon Peres

• Israel
• President  
• His family fled to Palestine in 1934
• Organized Israel's nuclear program
• Father of Israel's atomic bomb

Binyamin Netanyahu

• Prime minister
• Israel
• Nick name Bee-bee
• Lived in the US at a young age
• Brother was killed in 1976
• Believes that if Israel was established earlier the Holocaust would not have happened

Enrique Pena Pieto

• President
• Mexico
• Eldest of four siblings
• Father was an engineer
• Mother was a school teacher
• Teflon candidate because nothing sticks to him
• Had two affairs
• Three kids with two on the side
• Wife had a seizure
• Married again to soap opera actor Angelic Rivera
• Wants to clean up Mexico

Abdallah bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud

• Prime minister
• Saudi Arabia
• 22 children
• Many different wives
• Worth 21 billion dollars
• Commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard
• First Saudi monarch to meet the Pope
• In 2011 he granted women to vote and run in future elections