Political Affairs

Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (Polish: [ˈlɛx vaˈwɛ̃sa] ( listen), English: /ˌlɛk vəˈwɛnsə/ or /wɔːˈlɛnsə/ ; [1] [2] born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity...

Profile photo of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS , née Roberts (born 13 October 1925) is a British politician, the longest-serving (1979–1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of...

Helmut Kohl - Chancellor of Germany (1982–1998) and architect of German Reunification Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛlmuːt ˈkoːl] ; born 3 April 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany...

The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; pron.: / ˈ n eɪ t oʊ / NAY -toh ; French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN) ), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic...

ayatullah khamenei Ali Hosseini Khamenei (Persian: سید علی حسینی خامنه ای ,Azerbaijani: سید علی حسینی خامنه ای – Seyyid Əli Xameneyi ,pronounced [ʔæˈliː hoseiˈniː xɒːmeneˈʔiː] ( listen); born 17 July 1939) [2] is the Supreme Leader of Iran, [3] and a...

English: Mahmoud Abbas Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس , Maḥmūd ʿAbbās; born 26 March 1935), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (Arabic: أَبُو مَازِن , 'Abū Māzin), an Arab of the Sunni-Muslim faith, has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation...

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی , Akbar Hāshemī Rafsanjānī , Hashemi Bahramani هاشمی بهرمانی, born 25 August 1934) is an influential Iranian politician and writer, who was the fourth president of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Persian: محمود احمدی نژاد , Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād [mæhˈmuːd(-e) æhmædiːneˈʒɒːd] ( listen), [2] [3] [4] born 28 October 1956) [5] [6] is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of...

Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba as a result of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (Spanish: [fiˈðel ˈkastro] ; born August 13, 1926) is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976,...