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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of...

Xi Jinping (simplified Chinese: 习近平; traditional Chinese: 習近平; pinyin: Xí Jìnpíng; born June 1953) is a senior leader of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as the country's Vice President, the top-ranking member of the Secretariat of...

Sonia Gandhi (Hindi: सोनिया गांधी; born Edvige Antonia Albina Maino in Lusiana, Italy on 9 December 1946) is the Italian-born President of the Indian National Congress and the widow of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. She also serves...

Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey (born July 8, 1945) is a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2002. She is head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (the Swiss foreign minister) and was President of the Confederation in...

Abdul Latif Sharif (1947 – June 1, 2006), was an Egyptian-born chemist and chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long murder spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in the early 1990s.

Dr. Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Nixon...

Melissa A. Hart (born April 4, 1962) is an American politician who is a former member of the United States House of Representatives for the Fourth Congressional District of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Hart became the first Republican woman in...

Martha Wangari Karua (born 22 September 1957) is a Kenyan politician. She is a Member of Parliament for Gichugu Constituency and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She was Minister of Justice until resigning from that position in...

Kathryn Ann "Kay" Bailey Hutchison (born July 22, 1944), is the senior United States Senator from Texas and a candidate for the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election. She is a member of the Republican Party and a Conservative. In 2001, she...

Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Persian:روح الله موسوی خمینی, pronounced [ruːhollɑːhe muːsæviːje xomejniː] ( listen))[add stress] (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which...