TONY BLAIR today announced he will quit as Labour leader and stand down as Prime Minister on June 27 after a decade in Downing Street.
The Prime Minister finally confirmed the worst-kept secret in Westminster during an emotional lunchtime speech at the Trimdon Labour Club in his Sedgefield constituency.
Mr Blair said: “Today I announce my decision […]
Tony Blair proudly claimed to have changed the face of modern Britain today as he returned to the place where his political career first began to make the formal announcement of his resignation as Labour leader.
In an emotional speech to supporters in his Sedgefield constituency, Mr Blair declared that in his ten years in power, […]
TRIMDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday he will quit on June 27, 10 years after winning power in what was hailed as a new dawn for Britain that has since been darkened by the Iraq war.
Blair’s resignation triggers a contest for the leadership of the ruling Labour Party, which finance minister […]
(CBS) Now that Queen Elizabeth has concluded her visit to the United States, it’s obvious that Americans have a huge affection for the British monarchy. We also have conflicted feelings about it. We view England’s monarchy as antiquated, shockingly costly, silly, or, at best, quaint. We know that Queen Elizabeth doesn’t really “rule” Britain, and […]
NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton announced agreements with drug companies Tuesday to lower the price of so-called “second-line”
AIDS drugs for people in the developing world and to make a once-a-day AIDS pill available for less than $1 a day.
The anti-retroviral drugs are needed by patients who develop resistance to first-line treatment and currently […]
PARIS (Reuters) - French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy started plotting strategy on Monday for a parliamentary election next month which is crucial to his ability to push through the sweeping reforms he has promised.
Sarkozy won a strong mandate for political and economic change by winning 53.06 percent of the vote in Sunday’s presidential run-off against 46.94 […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wooed Christian conservatives on Saturday but passed up a chance to address their concerns about his Mormon roots.
Romney has raised the most money among Republican candidates but opinion polls show him trailing former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. John McCain, as well […]
(CBS/AP) Presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday sought to force another showdown with President Bush — and her Democratic rivals — over the Iraq war.
Sens. Clinton, D-N.Y., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., announced they would introduce legislation that would require the president to seek a reauthorization from Congress to extend the military effort in Iraq […]
A former president and the current chief executive shared a spotlight in last night’s Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library but ten men seeking the title spent little time in either of their shadows. In the face of a turbulent landscape for their party, these GOP aspirants sought to take on some of […]
SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) — Front-runner Rudy Giuliani broke with the other nine Republicans in the party’s first debate of the presidential campaign, saying that it would be OK if the Supreme Court overturned its ruling on abortion rights but that he respected a woman’s right to choose.
“I hate abortion” and encourage adoption, the former […]
