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  • Brown to declare for Labour leadership today

    BRITAIN: Gordon Brown is expected to declare for Labour leader later today, with the predicted endorsement of Tony Blair and half the parliamentary Labour Party making his march on 10 Downing Street seemingly unstoppable. p

  • Bush to negotiate Iraq funding bill with Congress

    US president George Bush with secretary of defence Robert Gates at the Pentagon yesterday: Mr Bush agreed to negotiate on the bill after a group of moderate Republicans warned him they would not support him over Iraq for much longer. US: Amid growing discontent over his handling of the situation in Iraq, President George Bush has agreed to negotiate with Congress over a war funding Bill that would set political benchmarks for the Iraqi government. p
Resignation of Tony Blair

  • Winner who rose above spin to make tough calls for Britain

    Spin, sleaze, and, of course, Iraq, should not blind us to Blair's brilliance, writes Frank Millar , London Editor p

  • Blairspeak: what he said

    "Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. That is a prize beyond value." - at a Nato-Russia summit in Paris in 1997. p

  • Blair speech

    "I ask you to accept one thing - hand on heart, I did what I thought was right. " p

  • 10 years at No 10: the Blair years

    Ten years of Tony Blair p

  • Blair 'never lost interest'

    Prime minister Tony Blair "never lost interest" in trying to end the Northern Ireland conflict, despite numerous setbacks, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said. Mr Blair will hold "an honoured place in Irish history", Mr Ahern added. p

  • Unionists have much to thank Blair for

    Blair legacy: Northern Ireland: Praise for the British prime minister's ' engagement' with the peace process is close to a historic understatement, writes Frank Millar , London Editor p

  • Iraq overshadows successes

    Blair legacy: foreign policy: Blair's foreign policy was based on morality, writes Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent p

  • Tributes from North's leaders

     Northern Ireland party leaders paid prime minister Tony Blair glowing tribute yesterday. p
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  • Lula and pope disagree over place of religion

    BRAZIL: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told Pope Benedict XVI that he wanted to preserve Brazil's secular state, during their meeting yesterday on the second day of the pope's visit to the world's most populous Catholic country. p

  • Turkish MPs back election reform

    TURKEY: Turkey's parliament yesterday approved a major constitutional amendment to allow the president to be elected directly by voters, a move that could fan fresh tensions between the Islamist-rooted government and secularists. p

  • East Timor PM is elected president

    EAST TIMOR: East Timor's prime minister, José Ramos-Horta, won an overwhelming majority of votes in the presidential run-off, provisional figures showed yesterday. p

  • Syria warns over Hariri court case

    SYRIA: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad signalled yesterday that Damascus might not co-operate with a UN-backed court to try suspects in the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister if it indicted Syrian officials. p

  • In short

    Today's other stories in brief p
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