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Winston S. Churchill served as the British Prime Minister during most of the Second World War (1940–1945).

During the First World War, the British Prime Minister was Herbert Henry Asquith (1914-1916), followed by David Lloyd George (1916-1918).

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Goh Chok Tong, the Prime Minister of Singapore, initiated the idea of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in 1994.

It is an informal forum for cooperation and dialogue between Asia and Europe.

It was launched in 1996 with 26 partners.

It has since grown to 53 partners.

The three main pillars of ASEM cooperation are political, economic, and socio-cultural.

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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz  was a Cuban revolutionary and politician

Born: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz 13 August 1926 Birán, Oriente, Cuba

Died: 25 November 2016 (aged 90) Havana, Cuba

Resting place: Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, Santiago de Cuba

Political party: PCC (from 1965)

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The 16th President of the USA was Abraham Lincoln.

He served from 1861 to 1865.

The short list of Prime Ministers of USA:

• 1st. George Washington
• 2nd. Adams John Adams
• 3rd. Thomas Jefferson
• 15th. James Buchanan
• 16th. Abraham Lincoln
• 17th. Andrew Johnson
• 44th. Barack Obama
• 45th. Donald Trump
• 46th. Joe Biden (Current)

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Sanna Marin became Finnish PM: December 2019

Sanna Marin became the youngest person to became PM in Finland at the age of 34.

Sanna Marin replaced Antti Rinne

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A Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile shot down an American U-2 plane over Cuba, killing the pilot, Major Rudolph Anderson.

President Kennedy posthumously awarded Anderson the Distinguished Service Medal.

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Mikhail Sergeyevich was a Russian and former Soviet politician.

The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union

he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991.

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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics

It was the largest country in the world, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometers (8,649,500 sq mi)

spanning eleven time zones.

Capital and largest city: Moscow

Leader  

• 1922–1924: Vladimir Lenin

• 1924–1953: Joseph Stalin

• 1953: Georgy Malenkov

• 1953–1964 : Nikita Khrushchev

• 1964–1982: Leonid Brezhnev

• 1982–1984: Yuri Andropov

• 1984–1985: Konstantin Chernenko

• 1985–1991: Mikhail Gorbachev

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Currency: Soviet ruble (Rbl) (SUR)

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Cyril Ramaphosa is the President of South Africa.

5th and current President of South Africa

Assumed office on 15 February 2018

Preceded by: Jacob Zuma