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Al Jazeera
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In his first speech as prime minister outside number 10 Downing Street, Brown said: "This will be a new government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country.
"As I have travelled roun..
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FOX News
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Tony Blair's decade in power ends Wednesday after facing questions in Parliament and having a last lunch at No. 10 Downing St. before Gordon Brown takes command of government.
For Brown, who for 10 years has controlled the national finances as chancell..
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FOX News
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Tony Blair may be asked to head the World Bank after its current president quit over an ethics flap, according to London's Daily Mail.
One of America’s top economists today revealed that the retiring prime minister is being considered as a replacemen..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The next few months will see a deluge of Blair assessments and pundits will argue for years about his legacy. But for humanists and secularists he's been, at best, a mixed blessing.
No one has done more to bring the toxic certainties of religious belie..
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BBC News
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Tony Blair has announced he will stand down as prime minister on 27 June.
He made the announcement in a speech to party activists in his Sedgefield constituency, after earlier briefing the Cabinet on his plans.
He acknowledged his government had not..
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USA Today
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Gordon Brown stepped up as Britain's prime minister Wednesday, as Tony Blair stepped aside after serving 10 years as the head of government and being America's most stalwart ally in Iraq.
Brown, who has been Britain's equivalent of treasury secretary d..
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CNN
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Tony Blair has addressed lawmakers for the final time ahead of stepping down as British Prime Minister after more than a decade in power -- paving the way for Gordon Brown to succeed him.
Fulfilling his promise to work to the end of his premiership, Bl..
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown is set to become prime minister, bringing to an end Tony Blair's 10 years in power.
Mr Brown is expected to meet the Queen, who will formally offer him the role, at about 1400 BST.
Mr Blair will leave office after his final prime minist..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Tony Blair agreed to commit British troops to battle in Iraq in the full knowledge that Washington had failed to make adequate preparations for the postwar reconstruction of the country.
In a devastating account of the chaotic preparations for the war,..
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Al Jazeera
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Brown was also expected to meet Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, Bayan Jabr, finance minister, and Lieutenant-General Graeme Lamb, Britain's senior military officer in the region, a spokesman said.
In the UK, the opposition Conservative party ha..
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BBC News
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has welcomed US President George Bush's call for a global warming summit this year but said more was needed.
Mr Bush said major polluters needed to set targets and "great breakthroughs" in technology - led by the US - would al..
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Guardian Unlimited
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It will be the political publishing sensation of the year. So hopes the author. So pray his publishers, who need to recoup the enormous advance that they have shelled out. In early July, less than a fortnight after Tony Blair finally checks out of Number..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Former US president Jimmy Carter unleashed a torrent of criticism against George Bush and Tony Blair over the weekend, in which he accused the Bush presidency of being the "worst in history" and said Mr Blair's support had been abominable and subservient...
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Washington Post
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For President Bush, the sensation must have been akin to watching his own funeral.
Bush's closest ally, Tony Blair, was on his final visit to the White House before the British prime minister, now deeply unpopular, leaves office. The first British ques..
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CNN
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President Bush said Thursday he's optimistic compromise will be reached with Congress on an Iraq spending bill.
"I think we'll get a deal. We'll work through something we can all live with," Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference with outgoing Brit..
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FOX News
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President Bush on Thursday warmly praised the leadership of Tony Blair, the United Kingdom's outgoing prime minister who has led one of the United States' closest allies for the past 10 years.
Blair, who was at the White House for his last trip to Wash..
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BBC News
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Tony Blair and George W Bush have reaffirmed the decisions they took over war in Iraq and said their countries would stay united against terrorism.
The British prime minister is on a final trip to Washington before stepping down at the end of June...
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BBC News
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Chancellor Gordon Brown will succeed Tony Blair as Labour leader and prime minister next month without facing a contest, it has been confirmed.
Mr Brown won backing from the vast majority of Labour MPs, meaning his only possible rival could not get eno..
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USA Today
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a farewell visit Wednesday to President Bush, an opportunity for close allies to showcase their unity on the war in Iraq and hammer out differences on climate change and trade.
Blair arrived at the White House bef..
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CNN
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Tony Blair is to visit U.S. President George W. Bush in what will likely be the British prime minister's final visit to the White House as the country's leader.
Blair and Bush will discuss a number of issues at the meeting Wednesday, Blair's official s..
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