President Facts :)

Hamid Karzai

-He emerged as a resistance leader under Taliban rule and worked to undermine the regime.

-He is well versed in several languages, including his native Peshto, Persian, Hindi, French, and English.

-Several times in 2001, Karzai warned the United States that the Taliban were connected with the al Qaeda and that there was a plot for an imminent attack on the United States, but his warnings went unheeded.

(biography.com)

 

 

Dilma Rousseff

-She opposed Brazil's military dictatorship of the 1960's and 70's, and served three years in prison, where she was repeatedly tortured.

-She has been divorced twice.

-She has a degree in economics, and now rules the country with the eighth-biggest economy in the world.

-She underwent chemotherapy for lymphoma in 2009, and is now in remission.

(NYTimes.com)

 

 

 

Xi Jinping

-Xi Jinping is the son of revolutionary veteran Xi Zhongzum, one of the Communist Party's founding fathers.

-He married folk singer Peng Liyuan, who also holds the rank of army general, in 1987. To many in China, Ms. Peng was the better-known half of the couple before Xi Jinping became leader of the Communist Party.

-The couple have a daughter named Xi Mingze, who is studying at Harvard University in the US.

 

 

 

Francois Hollande

-Hollande has no previous experience in a national government position.

-The mother of his four children is Segolene Royal, with whom he shared a 30-year relationship.

-He was born in 1954 in the city of Rouen to an extreme-right physician father and progressive social worker mother.

 

 

Angela Merkel

-Graduated from University of Leipzig in 1978 with a degree in physics and physical chemistry; earned a PhD in quantum chemistry from the German Academy of Science in Berlin in 1986.

-Has been Chancellor since November 2005.

-Merkel has earned the top spot on the FORBES list of Most Powerful Women In The World for eight of the past 1 years.

 

 

Pranab Mukherjee

-He taught Political Science at the Vidiyanagar College, and worked as a journalist before entering politics.

-Mukherjee was rated as one of the best finance ministers of the world in 1984 and was adjudged the best parliamentarian in 1997.

-He had a conflict with Rajiv Gandhi (who took over as Prime Minister from his mother Indira after she was assassinated in 1984) and started his own party - Rashtryia Samajwadi Congress.

 

 

Khamenei

-In 1963, took part in street protests against the U.S.- backed Shah of Iran. After the uprising was quashed, Khamenei was exiled. Khamenei was imprisoned multiple times and, in 1975, was internally exiled to a remote region in southeastern Iran.

-Was elected President of Iran in 1981 and re-elected in 1985. Became Iran's Supreme Leader in 1989.

 

 

Hasan Fereidum Ruhani

-Mr. Ruhani had held several parliamentary posts, including deputy speaker and has also served on the Supreme National Security Council.

-Was just elected President of Iran - June 2013.

**-He has been openly

 

 

Shimon Peres

-Shimon Peres was born in Belarus. To escape the persecution of Jews there, the family fled to Palestine in 1934.

-When Arab forces launched their attack on the new state of Israel in 1948, Peres was given the chief responsibility for securing military equipment for Israel from abroad.

-Later he organized Israel's nuclear program and is regarded as the father of Israel's atomic bomb.

-As Israel's Minister of Foreign Shimon Peres was in charge of the Israeli of 1994 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his own Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

 

 

 

Binyamin Netanyahu

-As a child and youth he lived with his family in the US in the years 1956-58 and again in 1963-67

**-After his brother Johnathan (Yonni) was killed, in July 1967, in the course of the Entevve operation, of which he was one of the commanders, Netanyahu returned

 

 

Enrique Pena Pieto

-He was the eldest of four siblings in a middle-class family; his father, was an engineer for the electric company and his mother was a schoolteacher,

-Reports that he fathered two children in extramarital affairs while his wife Monica raised the couple's 3 children, plus the investigation into the sudden death if his wife at home in 207, have promoted many to call him the Teflon candidate because trouble seems to slide off him.

**-Two years later he announced his engagement to soap opera actress

 

 

Abdallah

-He has fathered 22 children, the youngest when he was 79.

-He is worth approximately 21 billion dollars.

-He was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabiam National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king.

-In November 2007, he visited Pope Benedict in the Apostolic Palace. He is the first Saudi monarch to visit the Pope. In March 2008, he called for a "brotherly and sincere dialogue between believers from all religions."

-In 211 he granted women the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, the biggest change in a decade for women in a puritanical kingdom that practices strict separation of the sexes, including banning women from driving (the only country in the world with such a ban).

 

 

David Cameron

-At the age of seven, the young Cameron was packed off to Heatherdown, a highly exclusive preparatory school, which counted Prince Edward and Andrew among its pupils. Then, following in the family tradition, came Eton, Britain's top private school.

-His first born child, Ivan, was born profoundly disabled and needed round the clock care, died in February 2009.

-The experience of caring for Ivan and witnessing at first hand the dedication of NHS hospital staff, is said by friends to have broadened Mr. Cameron's horizons. He had, friends say, led an almost charmed life to that point.

-Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister (43 when he took office) in over 200 years

 

Queen Elizabeth II

-Elizabeth became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953. her reign has lasted 60 years - and counting…