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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 [...]

In town for one day on Thursday to lobby the government for a change in its tack on Iran’s nuclear policy, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left with only general assurances.
“We are fulfilling the wishes of our Israeli partners and are taking a firm stance,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his counterpart at a news [...]