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Robert Browning

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:09:46 -0800

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1892) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

George W. Bush

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:09:56 -0800

George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being sworn in as President on January 20, 2001. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. Preside

Amy Klobuchar

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:10:17 -0800

Amy Jean Klobuchar (pronounced /ˈkloʊbəʃɑr/, born May 25, 1960) is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party. She is the first elected female senator from Minnesota and is one of seventeen fem

Condoleezza Rice

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:10:27 -0800

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is a professor, diplomat, author, and national security expert. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice was the first black woman, second African Ameri

Osama bin Laden

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:10:38 -0800

Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎ Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin `Awaḍ bin Lādin; with numerous variations) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the September 11 attacks on the Un

Vladimir Putin

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:06:42 -0800

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, pronounced [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn] ( listen); born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well

Dmitry Medvedev

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:06:53 -0800

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дми́трий Анато́льевич Медве́дев (help·info), Dmitrij Anatol′jevič Medvedev; Russian pronunciation: [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪˈdvʲedʲɪf]; born September 14, 1965) is the third and current President of Russia, inaugurated on 7 May 2008. He won the pre

Mahmoud Abbas

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:07:03 -0800

Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس‎ Maḥmūd ʾAbbās) (born 26 March 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن‎), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005

Pervez Musharraf

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:07:14 -0800

Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرويز مشرف) (IPA: /ˈpəɹ.vɛz muˈʃɑɹ.əf/) NI, HI (born August 11, 1943) is the current and twelveth President of Pakistan. Previously, he was Chief Executive of Pakistan as well as former Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. On 19 August, 2008, he announced his resignat

Ehud Olmert

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:08:06 -0800

Ehud Olmert (Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט‎, IPA: [ɛˈhud ˈolmeʁt] ( listen), born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli political figure, and former Prime Minister of Israel having served from 2006 to 2009. Olmert was the mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset and be

Nouri al-Maliki

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:08:17 -0800

Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل محمّد حسن المالكي, transliterated Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī; born June 20, 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government also succeeded the Iraq

Robert Gates

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:31:44 -0800

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bus

William J. Fallon

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:32:05 -0800

William Joseph Fallon, (born December 30, 1944), was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who retired after serving for over 41 years. He served as Commander of the U.S. Central Command from March 2007 to March 2008. ADM Fallon was the first naval officer to hold that position. His other fo

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:32:15 -0800

General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (Urdu: اشفاق پرویز کیانی ) (also spelled Pervez Kiani or Kiyani; born April 1952, Gujar Khan, Punjab) is a Pakistani general and the current Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army. Kayani replaced Pervez Musharraf as the leader of the army on November 28, 2007. Kayani

Kofi Annan

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:32:36 -0800

Kofi Atta Annan, GCMG (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.

Angela Merkel

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:32:47 -0800

Angela Dorothea Merkel (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈaŋɡela doʁoˈtʰeːa ˈmɛɐ̯kl̩]; born Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany), is the current Chancellor of Germany. Merkel, elected to the German Parliament from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of t

Muqtada al-Sadr

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:07 -0800

Muqtadā al-Ṣadr or Moktada al-Sadr (سيد مقتدى الصدر) (born August 12, 1973) is an Iraqi theologian and political leader.

Salam Fayyad

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:39 -0800

Salam Fayyad (Arabic: سلام فياض‎; b. 1952 Deir al-Ghusun) is a Palestinian politician and the current Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority after being reappointed on 19 May 2009. His first appointment, on 15 June 2007, was justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "nationa

Ehud Barak

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:33:50 -0800

Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק (help·info), born Ehud Brog on 12 February 1942) is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party.

Amir Peretz

allvoices / people in the news page — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:34:00 -0800

Amir Peretz (Hebrew: עמיר פרץ‎, Arabic: عمير بيريتز‎; born Armand Peretz on 9 March 1952) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for the Labour Party. He is a former Defense Minister of Israel and former leader of the Labour Party, having left those positions in June 2007.