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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.
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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."
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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.
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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, in office since June 27, 2019
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Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova, in office since June 15, 2019
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Austria's Chancellor Brigitte Bierlein, in office since June 3, 2019
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Georgia's President Salome Zurabishvili, in office since December 16, 2018
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Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, in office since October 25, 2018
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Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Mottley, in office since May 25, 2018.
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Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, in office since November 30, 2017.
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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during an interview with Reuters in Wellington, New Zealand
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Singapore's President Halimah Yacob, in office since September 14, 2017.
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Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, in office since June 29, 2017.
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Estonia's President Kersti Kaljulaid, in office since October 10, 2016.
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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, in office since May 20, 2016
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Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, in office since April 6, 2016.
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Nepal's President Bidhya Bhandari, in office since October 29, 2015.
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Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, in office since February 19, 2015
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Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, in office since October 16, 2013.
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Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in office since January 6, 2009.
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Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, in office since November 22, 2005.
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