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Finland's new Prime Minister Sanna Marin speaks during a press conference of the new Finnish government in Helsinki, Finland on December 10, 2019. Finland's Social Democrats elected a 34-year-old former transport minister to the post of prime minister on Sunday, making her the youngest head of government in the country's history. Image Credit: Reuters

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Deputy Senate speaker Jeanine Anez, speaks from the balcony of the Quemado Palace in La Paz after proclaiming herself the country's new interim president in a session of Congress that failed to reach a quorum. Many Bolivians celebrate that the Bible is "finally" back in power with the transitional government of Jeannine Anez, who exhibited not one but two copies when she assumed the presidency on November 13. However, in this mostly Catholic country, several indigenous people from the area of El Alto, a city adjacent to La Paz, say that this government does not use the Bible, but "a piece of cardboard" or even "the words of the devil himself." Image Credit: AFP

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Sophie Wilmes, Belgium's prime minister in office since October 27, 2019. In this picture she arrives for a NATO Leaders' meeting at the Grove Hotel near Watford, U.K., on Dec. 4, 2019. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, in office since June 27, 2019 Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova, in office since June 15, 2019 Image Credit: Reuters

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Austria's Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, in office since June 3, 2019 Image Credit: Reuters

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Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili, in office since December 16, 2018 Image Credit: Reuters

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Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, in office since October 25, 2018 Image Credit: Reuters

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Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Mottley, in office since May 25, 2018. Image Credit: AFP

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Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, in office since November 30, 2017. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview with Reuters in Wellington, New Zealand Image Credit: Reuters

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Singapore's President Halimah Yacob, in office since September 14, 2017. Image Credit: Reuters

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Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, in office since June 29, 2017. Image Credit: Reuters

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Estonia's President Kersti Kaljulaid, in office since October 10, 2016. Image Credit: Reuters

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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, in office since May 20, 2016 Image Credit: EPA

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Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, in office since April 6, 2016. Image Credit: AFP

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Nepal's President Bidhya Bhandari, in office since October 29, 2015. Image Credit: Reuters

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Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, in office since February 19, 2015 Image Credit: Reuters

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Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, in office since October 16, 2013. Image Credit: Reuters

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Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in office since January 6, 2009. Image Credit: Reuters

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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, in office since November 22, 2005. Image Credit: Reuters

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