Al Jazeera English
| Mar 21, 2013
As the Xi Jinping era dawns in China, analysts are closely watching his first moves, including the decision to make today's trip to Moscow his first foreign visit. Getting nearly as much attention is his glamourous wife, celebrity folk singer Peng...
Associated Press
| Feb 24, 2013
Cuba's Castro dynasty is nearing an end. Raúl Castro has just announced that he will step down as the nation's president in 2018 at the end of his current five-year term. The 81-year-old leader, who replaced his famous brother, Fidel, as he...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jun 30, 2012
Mohamed Morsi took the oath of office on Saturday to become Egypt's first freely elected President. He is the first head of state since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year.
KTN Kenya
| May 30, 2012
Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes against humanity. Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the dark era of civil war that rocked neighbouring country ...
France 24
| May 30, 2012
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced by a special United Nations court to 50 years in prison following his landmark conviction for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone during the country's 1991-2001 civil war.
France 24
| Apr 26, 2012
The Special Court for Sierra Leone finds Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity Thursday in a landmark judgment against a former head of state.
ABC News (Australia)
| Apr 26, 2012
Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a UN-backed special court. He is the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes since the Nuremberg Trials after the ...
Euronews
| Nov 28, 2011
Voting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's second presidential election in four decades was marred by unrest on Monday. The UN said some polling stations were set ablaze by those angry about a delayed start to the vote. Incumbent head of sta...
— Apr 30, 2012 at 01:15 am
...around 180 day-care centers in Israel, as well as a number of schools and youth villages around the country. The philanthropic organization also...
— Feb 12 at 08:53 pm
...exciting to have an opportunity like this." Also set to attend with Michelle Obama are two U.S. Marines. One of them, Sgt. Carlos Evans, was wou...
— Sep 24, 2012 at 03:18 pm
...the Darfur Regional Authority at the State House. Dr. Altijani briefed the President regarding developments in Darfur, as well as the outcome of...
— May 4 at 04:06 am
...U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Abbas discussed reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. China believes that "strengthening its relation...
— Sep 24, 2012 at 09:59 pm
...to Muslims to show "dignity" and not resort to violence as they protest an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. Secretary of State Hil...
Head of state or Chief of State is the generic term for the individual or collective office that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchic or republican nation-state, federation, commonwealth or any other political state. His or her role generally includes personifying the continuity and legitimacy of the state and exercising the political powers, functions and duties granted the head of state in the country's constitution and further legislation. The head of state is often thought of as the official leader of the nation-state.Charles de Gaulle described the role he envisaged for the French president when he wrote the modern French constitution, stating the head of state should embody the spirit of the nation for the nation itself and the world: une certaine ide de la France (a certain idea about France). Today many countries expect their head of state to embody national values in a similar fashion.
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