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Royal pageantry met hard-nosed electioneering Wednesday, as Queen Elizabeth II donned the diamond-encrusted Imperial State Crown to announce the government's plans for the next parliamentary session.
Slovakia pledged about 250 extra soldiers Tuesday to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, the first of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said would be a series of international reinforcements.
British officials say Prime Minister Gordon Brown will apologize to thousands of British children who were shipped to new lives overseas, where many say they suffered neglect and abuse.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says President Barack Obama will announce his decision on sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan within days.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that his foreign policy chief, David Miliband, is not in line for a major European Union job.
A handwritten condolence note written by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to the grieving mother of a soldier slain in Afghanistan caused the government fresh embarrassment on Monday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan leadership: Clean up your act — for real this time — or risk a cutoff of support.
Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change.
Grieving over the death of her son in Afghanistan, the woman tore into British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The world has less than two months to agree on how to avoid catastrophic global warming whose impact would be felt for generations, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, a stark warning that puts pressure on the United States to finalize its position before this year's global climate conference in Denmark.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged Wednesday to send more troops to Afghanistan but only if NATO and the Afghan government do more to help fight the Taliban.
First it cost their reputations. Now it'll cost them cash.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain disclosed Saturday that an eye examination showed two tears in his right retina — a revelation that could embolden critics who want him to step down before a national election.
The British government is holding a fire sale of public assets including the undersea Channel rail link to raise 16 billion pounds ($25 billion) as Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned on Monday that the country is "only halfway there" in overcoming the recession.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pressed rival Catholic and Protestant leaders Monday to end the deadlock threatening their power-sharing government, the central pillar of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed to take part in Britain's first televised election debate among party leaders.
A Palestinian bid to have Israeli defense chief Ehud Barak arrested for alleged war crimes during a visit to Britain has failed, a lawyer for the groups involved said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday downplayed the decision of the Sun tabloid to switch its allegiance from the Labour Party to the opposition Conservatives.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted he won't quit his post as his governing Labour Party met Sunday for its annual convention before a national election the party is expected to lose.
It's a challenging time for British politics — not to mention Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party, which starts its annual convention Sunday.
Statements by President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Pittsburgh on Friday about an Iranian nuclear facility, as provided by the White House:
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the international community is shocked and angered by Iran's deception in building a secret nuclear fuel facility.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday dismissed reports that he is slowly going blind, as a longtime critic in his governing Labour Party urged him to stand down as leader to save the party from a mauling at the next general election.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown signaled Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly that he is prepared to scale back the country's Trident submarine nuclear deterrent as part of a "global bargain" to reduce the world's nuclear arsenal.
Critics of Afghanistan need to look in mirrorPARIS -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swept into Kabul last Thursday to rain on Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second-term inauguration parade.
British PM Brown: UK faces a climate catastrophe of floods, droughts and killer heatwavesUK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B".
Face Down the Militarists and Get Out of AfghanistanGo to Washington any time in the past eight years and ask what influence Britain has over America's Afghan policy. The answer is a thumb and forefinger joined in a simple zero. The same was true in Iraq.
Conservatives: we will kill off Queen's speech billsTory peers will use time pressure to thwart Gordon Brown's 'electioneering' package
Washington hunts a way out of AfghanistanFinally, it seems, the penny has dropped. America's 'good war' cannot be won militarily. Signs indicate that the US president, who was so gung ho on Afghanistan before taking office, has got the message. More troops just won't cut it.
DEA and US Extradition Corruption ProofHere is another of several conversations with the US DEA a man called Don Sherard who was at the centre of my wife's and my extradition.
Pak Nukes and Obama's AFNAM "US troops in Afghanistan would cost over $1 billion per 1000 troops per year. People expect General Kiyani to show courage and overhaul his bunch first from dollar toxic generals in his ranks to save the very institution he is trying to protect? "
Gordon Brown: London summit to decide end game in AfghanistanDelivering the annual Guildhall foreign policy speech, the Prime Minister is expected to step up his efforts to win the British public over to the conflict against the Taliban.
And Thank You!, Mr Brown, for your fawning comments. But if British architects are so great, why do they need your quango, CABE, to tell them how to design?Quotes from PM Brown's address:
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Explosion at Nato base in KabulThe BBC's Martin Patience assess the damage caused by the blast A car bomber has struck outside a Nato base in the Afghan capital Kabul, injuring three foreign soldiers and three Afghan civilians, officials say.
Britain's Channcellor, Alistair Darling, backs Gordon Brown's 'Tobin tax' despite cold shoulder from US | Business | guardian.co.uk Alistair Darling pledged today that the government would step up its fight for a new international tax on banking despite an initially frosty response to the plan from Washington.
EU reform treaty passes last test - agreement creates a President of EuropeThe president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, has signed the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the final step in the charter's ratification. The treaty was drawn up to streamline decision-making in the EU, and is a watered-down version of a draft EU constitution rejected four years ago. …
BBC NEWS | UK | Killed officer warned of shortageThe most senior British officer to be killed in the Afghan campaign had warned about the risks posed to troops by a shortage of helicopters. Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, 39, commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, died in a roadside bombing.
72,000 people sign petition calling for Gordon Brown to resign!The tally makes it the 10th most popular e-petition since No 10 started accepting them in 2006.
Britain stands 'shoulder to shoulder' with Pakistan: PMLONDON: Britain stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Pakistan following the latest attacks there in which 40 people died Thursday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman said.
UK Prime Minister 'to boost Afghanistan troops'Gordon Brown is expected to announce that Britain is to send an extra 500 military personnel to Afghanistan. The UK has about 9,000 soldiers in the country, the second-largest contingent after the US, but there have been calls for increases in Nato troop levels.
UK Probe after Twitter helps lift legal 'gag'Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday acknowledged an "unfortunate" legal grey area after Twitter users helped thwart a controversial reporting "gag" granted to an oil company.
US urges Israel to probe Gaza crimes to boost peaceGENEVA: The United States called on its close ally Israel Tuesday to conduct credible investigations into allegations of war crimes committed by its forces in Gaza, saying it would help the Middle East peace process.
Sarkozy's Contempt for Obama by Jack KellyThe extent of President Obama's naivete - or duplicity - was on display Friday at the G20 summit when the president, flanked by Mr.
Gordon Brown to promise crackdown on bad parents. Patrick Wintour, political editor. The Guardian, Tuesday 29 September 2009 Gordon Brown will try to reconnect with middle Britain, and rescue his drifting leadership, by using his speech to Labour's conference today to return to the Blairite agenda of tough measures on irresponsible parenting and social breakdown.
Leaders Warn Iran Over Nuclear SitePresident Obama and leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel, saying the country has hidden the covert operation from international weapons inspectors for years.
Senate passes Kerry-Lugar Bill : ObamaNEW YORK: The US Senate Thursday unanimously passed the Kerry- Lugar bill, authorizing $ one and half billion in economic assistance for Pakistan annually over five years, President Barack Obama announced here at a major moot expressing economic support for Pakistan.
US Senate votes to triple aid to PakistanWASHINGTON — The US Senate voted Thursday to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to roughly 1.5 billion dollars per year through 2014 in a bid to build trust and cooperation with a key ally against extremism.
Reports that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was chasing President Obama for a sit-down chat yesterday during the United Numbskulls love-in have been widely circulated, prompting the question: "What's the problem?"
Security Council Adopts Nuclear Weapons ResolutionThe U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a U.S-drafted resolution Thursday morning that affirms many of the steps President Obama plans to pursue as part of his vision for an eventual "world without nuclear weapons." More Articles
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