The list includes both the president of Myanmar and the country's main opposition leader.

To the surprise of many, the country s legal community organized a nation wide movement to restore the Chief Justice to his post.

A violent few broke into the offices of the country s president and its parliament building, which was set on fire.

A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent.

In order to dominate decision making, Khamenei prefers weak presidents.

The President of the Central Bank of Venezuela is presently Eudomar Tovar, who also serves as the country's representative in the International Monetary Fund.

A battle between the president and legislature over control of federal spending has not been fully resolved.

That might very well happen if America s next president fails to redress the financial and economic threats facing his country, and thus the rest of the world.

The official in question was Adair Turner, the head of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority, the country s chief financial regulator.

The underlying charge in the Chief Prosecutor s indictment is that the AKP has been eroding secularism.

In his proclamation of emergency (full text below), Musharraf identifying himself as chief of army staff, not president cites the rising violence in the country as the basis for his imposing martial law.

The country s biggest media baron, who happens to be the head of state security, expands his media empire by abusing the courts.

The gift was ostensibly for the funeral of the country s late President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on 5 April 2012, after a heart attack.

Kenya was saved from the abyss by a shotgun marriage between the country s ethnic Kikuyu president, Mwai Kibaki, and his Luo challenger, Raila Odinga, who was given the post of prime minister.

Since then, he has held the most important positions in the country besides being its sole Sultan Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Planning, and President of the Central Bank.

General Buyukanit said in April that the country s new president must be secular not just in words, but in essence.

Ehrnrooth became the strongman of the government, and became Prime Minister on 9 May 1881 whilst Alexander finalised his plans to assume full control of the country.

Even after conviction, the generals were sufficiently strong to exact a termination of the trials and then a pardon from the succeeding president.

In September, the ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, reappeared in the country inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa after three months of exile.

In Egypt, for example, the Freedom and Justice Party, which dominates the parliament, claims that a woman cannot become President.

Bolivia s Evo Morales rose to prominence as leader of the country s coca growers during a brutal campaign to wipe out their crops, the so called Dignity Plan.

So far, however, China has failed to persuade the country s president to lease it one of the 700 uninhabited Maldivian islands for use as a small base for the Chinese navy.

Even after a constitutional amendment in 2010 made the prime minister the country s chief executive, Zardari has continued to be the main decision maker.

He does not want to go down in history as the prime minister who had to surrender Italy s sovereignty to save the country from default.

ISTANBUL As Lebanon braces for the possible indictment of Hezbollah operatives for the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the country s economy is wobbling.

Likewise, in 2004, Costa Rica s president decreed that his administration stop advertising in the country s leading daily newspaper, in retaliation for critical coverage.

At the same time, other factors may well oblige Venezuela s next president to alter the country s foreign policy in some ways. Maduro may be the anointed successor, but he is not Chávez.

But the country s economic model remains, as former Premier Wen Jiabao famously put it, unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.

NEW YORK The Chief Prosecutor of Turkey s High Court of Appeals recently recommended to the country s Constitutional Court that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) be permanently banned.

But an engaged and active president may cause tension with the prime minister who, in the Turkish system, is the real chief executive.

Some prominent Nigerians have also suggested that if the electoral crisis is not resolved before Obasanjo steps down on May 29, the chief justice should take over as interim president and organize new elections.

Commemorating the 30th anniversary of China s membership, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick proposed to the country s leaders a joint effort to identify and analyze China s medium term development challenges.

Nevertheless, the election of a new, democratic, and lawful president has become accepted nationally as a necessary point of departure from the murderous path taken by the country with the extension of Lahoud s mandate.

In April 2011, a video of then President Dmitry Medvedev leaked online, showing the commander in chief swinging his arms and strutting about somewhat effeminately to the song American Boy by the Russian pop group Kombinatsia.

Following an assassination attempt by an aide de camp, Dadis Camara fled the country, and the interim junta leader, General Sékouba Konaté, allowed the opposition political parties to appoint a civilian prime minister.

Politicians led by Prime Minister Hun Sen (who has been in power since 1985) have created their own Facebook pages where they interact with Cambodian citizens and netizens.

Today, 11pm Anakara Time, WikiLeaks releases part one of the AKP Emails. AKP, or the Justice Development Party, is the ruling party of Turkey and is the political force behind the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

During his first term in office, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan relaxed some restrictions on Kurdish minorities and passed reforms that aligned the country s legal regime with European norms.

For a democratic minded president to co habit (as the French call it) with the very man who sought to sabotage Ukraine s last presidential ballot would, I knew, provoke institutional paralysis and political chaos.

Interestingly, the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has yet to dismiss the theory that Malaysian opposition politicians have conspired with the Sulu Sultan in order to destabilize the country and bring down the ruling coalition ahead of this year s general elections.

In addition to calling the country's president and interior minister dogs and promising to come for with slaughter , Halimov claims he trained in both Russia and the U.S., which he portrayed as infidel countries in his tirade.

Azerbaijan, which had ratified the Convention and its Optional Protocols and had submitted combined second and third periodic reports to the Committee, had invited its chairperson to visit the country in early 2006.

Others, such as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, see the country s problems as difficult but manageable, and complain of interference from ill intentioned foreign speculators.

The following month, in June 2012, Rajab was also handed a three month sentence for different tweets he had written about the country's Prime Minister, who has been in power for 43 years.

In China, the leadership transition has occurred smoothly. But the country s economic model remains, as former Premier Wen Jiabao famously put it, unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.