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Photos: Forbes' most powerful people in the world
Photos: Forbes most powerful people in the world
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The Most Powerful People in the World list represents the collective wisdom of top Forbes editors, who consider hundreds of nominees before ranking the planet's top 72 power-brokers -- one for every 100 million people on Earth -- based on their scope of influence and their financial resources relative to their peers. Russian President Valdimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) arrive to pay tribute to 526 prisoners of war, including 154 Soviet soldiers, murdered by the Gestapo in the final weeks of World War II at a cemetery on April 8, 2013 in Hanover, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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