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1. Due to the landslide victory of the Labour Party in the 1997 British General Election, this 43 year old son of a barrister and lecturer became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.
2. This Parisian, born on November 29, 1932, was elected President of the French Republic on May 7, 1995. As President, he was also an ex-officio Co-Prince of Andorra.
3. This graduate of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University became the 20th President of the LDP and Prime Minister of Japan in 2001.
4. On December 7, 2004, this man, who is fluent in Pashto, Dari, English, Urdu, and speaks French, was inaugurated as Afghanistan's first elected President.
5. This sports enthusiast won the sambo (a Russian style of self-defense) championships of St Petersburg several times and became Master of Sports, first in sambo and later in judo, before being elected as the 2nd president of Russia on March 26, 2000.
6. The election of this Chancellor on September 27, 1998 signaled a changing of the guard, for he became the first postwar German leader who was too young to remember World War II.
7. This 11th Prime Minister of Israel, elected in 2001, is considered by many Israelis to be a strong leader battling terrorism. Many critics, however, particularly in the Arab world, refer to him as "the Butcher of Beirut" and have sought his prosecution as a war criminal.
8. This man, elected President of China by the National People's Congress in March 2003, served as party chief in the 1980s in Guizhou and Tibet, where he oversaw crackdowns on pro-independence protests.
9. Sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004, this head of the Congress Party, whose policies as Finance Minister in the 1990s reformed the Indian economy and brought the country back from looming bankruptcy, spent years on the faculty of Punjab University and the prestigious Delhi School of Economics.
10. This politician, who became Prime Minister of Australia on March 11, 1996, had been appointed Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs in 1975 at the age of 36 and subsequently served as Minister for Special Trade Negotiations and as Treasurer of the Commonwealth for over five years.
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