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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
- Worked to over through the government
- Speaks five languages
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/army general
- Father was jailed
- Their daughter studies at Harvard
- Communist
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
- Social worker 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
- Won the Nobel peace prize
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
- Has four wives currently
David Cameron
- Prime minister of the UK
- At 7 was shipped off to a highly exclusive preparatory school
- Has a disabled son who died February 2009
- Rides a bike to work everyday
- Had his bike stolen a few times
- Youngest prime minister in over 200 years
- Went into office at 43
Queen Elizabeth II
- Queen of England
- 60 years in reign
- Her son prince Charles
Nicolas Maduro Moros
- Venezuela
- President
- Worked as a bus driver before becoming politically active
- Was selected to be president
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