The monarch is also head of the armed forces, supreme governor of the Church of England, head of state of the UK and 15 other Commonwealth countries.

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The USSR president is the head of the Union state exercising supreme executive power...

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"The Military Council is totally ready to hand over power immediately and return to its original job protecting the people, if the people want that in a referendum, " Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the usually secretive Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, said on state television.

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