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The memoirs of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the object of an international bidding war that went on for days, have been acquired by imprints of Random House Inc. in the United States and England.
Tony Blair waded headlong into the murky world of Middle East peacemaking on Thursday, dismissing concerns that he would fail like so many before him and announcing he would travel to the region.
Among the biggest challenges Tony Blair will face in his new role as Middle East envoy is Arab anger over the wars in Iraq and Lebanon, and perceptions that he speaks for President Bush.
Gordon Brown ended a decade-long wait to become prime minister Wednesday, stepping out of Tony Blair's shadow determined to heal divisions over the unpopular Iraq war as he brings a sober new tone to the government.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be named on Wednesday as special envoy for the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East with a portfolio focused on Palestinian economic and political reform, a senior U.S. official said.
In his new job as Mideast envoy, Tony Blair will take on a task that has bedeviled many before him — a role complicated by Hamas' takeover of Gaza, the weakness of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, and animosity deepened on both sides by six years of conflict.
It won't be that long before President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair will both be out of office, and Bush is already looking back with some longing.
Britain's support for the war in Iraq was a "major tragedy" for the world, former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday as he criticized Tony Blair's unwavering support for President Bush.
President Bush hung out with his best political partner in the world the other night, hosting departing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a rare White House sleepover and a farewell chat out on the Truman Balcony.
Tony Blair is to visit President Bush on Wednesday in what likely will be the British prime minister's final visit to the White House as the country's leader.
President Bush will meet with outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his closest ally in the war in Iraq, when Blair visits Washington next Wednesday and Thursday.
Tony Blair said Thursday he would step down as prime minister on June 27, closing a decade of power in which he fostered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to a war in Iraq that cost him much of his popularity.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair took to the Internet on Monday to congratulate Nicolas Sarkozy on winning France's presidential election, posting video messages in English and in French — with a plea for patience.
His name does not appear on any ballots but when Britain's voters go to the polls Thursday, Prime Minister Tony Blair will be facing the electorate for the last time.
Thousands of people protested outside Prime Minister Tony Blair's residence Sunday to demand decisive action against the violence in Darfur, holding up a 7-foot hourglass filled with artificial blood.
Text of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's statement Wednesday on the 15 Britons held in Iran:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defused a growing confrontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the crew's thanks and handshakes in what he called an Easter gift.
The next two days are "fairly critical" to resolving the dispute over a seized British navy crew, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday, after Iran's chief international negotiator offered a new approach to end the standoff with Tehran.
One of the 15 British service members held captive in Iran appeared Friday on the government's Arabic-language TV and apologized for entering Iranian waters "without permission." Prime Minister Tony Blair said Iran will face "continued isolation" if it continues "in this way."
The U.N. Security Council expressed "grave concern" Thursday over Iran's seizure of 15 British sailors and marines and called for an early resolution of the escalating dispute, but Iran's chief international negotiator suggested the captives might be put on trial.
Iran aired a video Wednesday of 15 captured British sailors and marines, showing the only woman captive saying her group had "trespassed" in Iranian waters. Britain angrily denounced the video as a "completely unacceptable" display of prisoners.
Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Tuesday that his government could make public evidence that a British navy crew was in Iraqi waters when it was captured by Iran, saying he was prepared to take the standoff to a "different phase" if diplomacy fails to win their release.
Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday called the Iranian seizure of 15 British sailors and marines "unjustified and wrong," saying in his first remarks on the escalating confrontation that London saw it as a "very serious situation."
Prime Minister Tony Blair met with the leaders of Northern Ireland's hard-line Protestant and Catholic parties Wednesday to press for the formation of a joint administration in the territory by a late March deadline.
You can't teach an old lapdog new tricks. And Tony Blair was barking up the wrong tree yet again last week in his first major appearance since he skulked ingloriously away from office back in June.
Science fiction author Dafydd ab Hugh contends that Doris Lessing's recent comments on 9-1-1 prove that being intellectual doesn't necessarily mean you're particularly intelligent.
"There is a tendency even now, even in some of our own circles, to believe that they are as they are because we have provoked them and if we left them alone they would leave us alone," he said. "I fear this is mistaken. They have no intention of leaving us alone."
UK ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has accused Iran of backing terrorism and warned the world faces a situation akin to "rising fascism in the 1920s". Mr Blair told a charity event in New York that Iran was prepared to destabilise peaceful countries.
EVERY politician knows the cautionary fable: the vain emperor who kept on buying new clothes, who was eventually sold an imaginary new suit—and who was suddenly and publicly revealed to be worryingly short of substance.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown was pressured again Wednesday to call a referendum on the new European Union treaty, amid opposition claims he would lose if one were held. ...
Just as I reported Last Week: He's no Tony Blair Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under pressure to set out a clear vision of where he wants to take the country on Sunday after a poll showed Conservatives enjoying their strongest support for 15 years.
France has been a semi-detached member of Nato, rather as Britain is in the EU. It plays a full political role but withdrew its forces from the integrated multi-national command formations that were set up to respond to any attack.
"1 - Gordon Brown promised a new era of spin free politics. Compared with the Government under Tony Blair do you believe that Gordon Brown's government is: More likely to spin: 15% No Different: 61% Less likely: 20% Don't know: 4%
They have already moved into what has been described as a "mini Downing Street" in London's Connaught Square, and now it seems Tony and Cherie Blair are looking to add their own version of Chequers to their ever-expanding property portfolio. Nice house!
...the [UK] Government is permitting the US administration to install additional equipment at Menwith Hill, in Yorkshire, to support its unproven missile defence system.
The methods of madness undertaken by the elected leaders of what we used to know as America are confusing, confounding, hypocritical, greedy, shameless and full of secrets.
Anyone who wants to understand what really goes on in the Mideast should have a look at the scandal that erupted earlier this month over the outsized character of Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. Bandar has long been a renowned mover, shaker, and charmer.
The White House no longer views Britain as its most loyal ally in Europe since Gordon Brown took office and is instead increasingly turning towards France and Germany, according to Bush administration sources.
Here's a story that probably has Scotland Yard in an uproar and the queen spilling her tea.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie ...
Mr McNulty told the meeting in Bournemouth: "I think we have made mistakes since 7/7."
Blair went, John Howard's ratings dropped & now Shinzo Abe has resigned. The reasons are different & diverse in each case but the one common thing due to which these men had to go through tough times in their political careers was supporting the Iraq war.
The Palestinian Ma'an News Agency claims it has obtained a copy of the an 8-point declaration of principles being formed by Israelis and Palestinians before a November summit. Ma'an claims it received a copy from an Israeli source.
The argument for compulsory DNA testing of the entire population and all visitors to the UK, so eloquently put by Lord Justice Stephen Sedley, has provoked another bout of anxious navel gazing by civil libertarians.
One of Blumenthal's sources put it more bluntly, "Bush didn't give a @!$%# about the intelligence. He had his mind made up."
British soldiers began withdrawing Sunday from their last base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, paving the way for fresh troop cuts and fueling worries about the security of the country's second-largest city and the surrounding region.
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Tony Blair's new neighbours have demanded bombproof glass for their houses to protect them from a terrorist attack. The request comes just days after a series of security scares at his Georgian townhouse in Connaught Square, Central London.
The last contingent of British soldiers based in the center of this southern city will leave by Friday, says a senior Iraqi security official, adding that a deal has been struck with leaders of Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army to ensure their safe departure.
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