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BBC News
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Mr Blair is due to have talks with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.
"He's in Baghdad against a backdrop of the continuing major security opera..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is to take on the Scottish Nationalists in a passionate justification of the case for Scotland remaining part of the UK...
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Times Online
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TONY BLAIR has said that he is opposed to the death penalty for Saddam Hussein and urged the Iraqi Government to reconsider its position...
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Al Jazeera
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Not a man of peace'
In Gaza, Hamas voiced its concerns on the outgoing prime minister's new role.
"Blair, who supported the American occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, may not be a man of peace," Fawzi Barhum, the Hamas spokesman told AFP in G..
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CNN
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was questioned by British police for a third time in their investigation of allegations that honors were offered for political contributions, the Press Association reported Thursday.
The agency, citing unidentified sour..
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CNN
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been appointed special envoy to the Middle East, a statement for the the Quartet of Mideast peace mediators has confirmed.
In a joint written statement Wednesday, the United States, Russia, the European Unio..
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CNN
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When Tony Blair strode across a Manchester stage on Sunday June 24 and declared, "the new leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown," it was the moment his Downing Street neighbor had been waiting for, with growing impatience, for 13 years.
As chancello..
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Al Jazeera
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Urgency
Blair's official spokesman declined to comment on speculation that an announcement would be made at talks attended by representatives from the Quartet, which is composed of the EU, Russia, the UN and the US.
However, he hinted that Blair..
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CNN
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Tony Blair spent his last full day as British Prime Minister on Tuesday facing mounting speculation that he will be appointed as a peace envoy to the Middle East.
Standing alongside visiting California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at his final news c..
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USA Today
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Treasury chief Gordon Brown, replacing Tony Blair as leader of Britain's Labor Party, vowed Sunday that the country's foreign policy will recognize that defeating terrorism "involves more than military force."
Brown, who will succeed Blair as prime min..
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FOX News
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The Vatican on Saturday bid farewell to Tony Blair (search) as British prime minister, wishing him well on what it said were his plans to work for Middle East peace and interreligious dialogue.
Blair held long talks with Pope Benedict XVI (search), wit..
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Al Jazeera
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Friend said that it was possible that in the last hour David Welch, a US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs had also been in the British capital talking to the prime minister.
Position vacantThe job of special envoy for the Quarte..
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USA Today
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's office denied reports Thursday that Britain had struck a deal to allow the Lockerbie bomber to complete his prison sentence in Libya, but acknowledged that authorities were considering a second appeal from the convicted attacke..
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CNN
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to push through a new anti-terrorism law before he steps down next month giving "wartime" powers to police to stop and question people, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Blair, who is due to resign June 27 after a..
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BBC News
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The US may be willing to back an agreement at next month's G8 summit on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, Tony Blair has said on BBC TV.
Up to now, the Bush administration has championed voluntary agreements as an alternative to imposing binding caps...
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CNN
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for meetings with Iraqi government officials, an official in the Iraqi prime minister's office told CNN.
The agenda on what will likely be Blair's final Iraq visit as prime minister inclu..
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CNN
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Gordon Brown launched his campaign to succeed Tony Blair as British prime minister with a speech to activists in London and the unveiling of his manifesto Friday.
Standing at a podium in front of a banner that read, "Gordon Brown for Britain," Brown sa..
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CNN
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Having won three successive elections, and served as the British Prime Minister for the last ten years, Tony Blair is bring an end to his time in office.
Leader during the invasion of Iraq, September 11 and the 7/7 London transport bombings, his career..
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CNN
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced his resignation Thursday as Labour Party leader and prime minister after a decade in power.
"I've come back here to Sedgefield, to my constituency, where my political journey began and where it's fitting that..
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SF Gate
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Millions of Britons voted Thursday in local elections that are expected to reflect the public's anger at Tony Blair and his Labor Party.
After a decade in office and with his popularity plunging in the polls, Blair is widely expected to announce next w..
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