British Prime Minister Gordon Brown handed President Bush good news on two fronts Monday: a modest increase in Britain’s troops for the tough Afghanistan fight and a fresh European effort to squeeze Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The deeply unpopular prime minister seemed to calculate he had more to gain politically by being hawkish than he risked losing [...]
Scandal brings downs Ireland’s PM
With little change expected in overall policy direction, the first task facing his likely successor, Finance Minister and fellow Fianna Fail party member Brian Cowen, will be to secure a yes vote in a referendum when Irish voters will determine the fate of the European Unions reform treaty.
The treaty replaces a [...]
INSULATING Australia against growing global economic turmoil and deep-seated fears in Canberra that the world is losing the political will to tackle climate change will dominate Kevin Rudd’s foreign travels over the next 18 days.
And in a swipe at the style of his predecessor, John Howard, Mr Rudd has promised to restore Australia as a [...]
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In Kiwi terms, this is as big as the royal miscalculation over the death of Lady Diana.
The palaces initial belief then was that the outpouring of grief was [...]
Eighteenpeople were injured and fire engines smothered the aircraft in foam after the landing at the worlds busiest international airport extensively damaged its wings and ripped off its undercarriage.
The wheels of the plane, which had a routine maintenance check in December, were still in the field where it crashed, several hundred metres from the runway [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday headed from China to India, hoping for movement from New Delhi on tackling climate change while also building on trade and investment links.
The prime minister’s first visit to New Delhi since taking office last June is expected to follow similar themes to those seen in Beijing and Shanghai, [...]
The International Monetary Fund should set up an early warning system to prevent crises like the global credit crunch, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
Proposing sweeping changes to international institutions, Brown called for rapid response teams of police and experts to be set up that could be sent quickly to trouble spots to restore order [...]
