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Ex-Iceland Prime Minister Faces No Punishment For Role In Financial Crisis

AP | ANNA ANDERSEN | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Global Recession, Video, Landsdomur, Criminal Prosecution, Reykjavik, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Iceland, Geir Haarde, Prime Minister, Business News

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The leader of Iceland's government when the nation's banking system collapsed was convicted Monday of one criminal charge, ...

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Professor Monti, It Could Be Better for Italy

Laura Kiss | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Italy, Austerity Manouvre, Prime Minister, World News

In recent days, in order to try to save Italy from default, Professor Monti has tried to assure Italians with three key words: recovery, equity and growth.

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London Riots Won Over by a Nation of Tea Lovers

Toan Lam | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Tea Heroes, Hope, Toan Lam, Oli Cohen, Glamour Magazine, London, Jonny Walker, Prime Minister, Times Magazine, Inspiration, Fiona Pattison, Philippa Walker, Goinspirego, David Cameron, Looting, Times, Impact News

What happens after your life has been threatened and in danger and you've successfully run to safety? According to Jonathan Walker and his wife, Philippa Morgan Walker, "Put the kettle on!"

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Yingluck Shinawatra Voted In As Thailand's First Female Prime Minister

AP | By THANYARAT DOKSONE | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Women, Video, Thailand, Impact News, Yingluck Shinawatra Prime Minister, Women News, Thailand First Female Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime Minister, World News, Yingluck Shinawatra Voted In, World News

BANGKOK -- Thai lawmakers elected U.S.-educated businesswoman Yingluck Shinawatra as the country's first female prime minister Friday, setting the sta...

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Egypt Art Chief Zahi Hawass To Be Imprisoned

Ahram Online | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Government, Art, Egypt, Criminal, Essam Sharaf, Zahi Hawass Jail, Monuments, Zahi Hawass, Antiquities Chief, Antiquities Minister, Prime Minister, Land Dispute, Arts News

Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass has been sentenced to one year in jail on Sunday for refusing to fulfill a court ruling over a l...

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My Interview With Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou... From the Top of the Acropolis

Steven Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Europe, Strikes, Deficits, European Union, United States, Papandreou, Prime Minister, Austerity, Greece, Euro, California, World News

Prime ministers are pretty busy people, especially when the capitalist world believes that your nation could be a domino that brings down the rest of them.

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Will India Win Coveted UN Seat?

Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, UK, United Kingdom, India, Sarkozy, France, USA, Obama Wars, David Cameron, Washington DC, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama, Vladimir Putin, President, Hu Jintao, Manmohan Singh, United Nations, Obama's Wars, Washington, Carla Bruni, Un, Putin, Britain, United States of America, New Delhi, Pakistan, England, Cameron, Wen Jiabao, United Nations Security Council, Uno, The UK, Great Britain, US, Barack Obama, UN Security Council, Kashmir, Bob Woodward, Prime Minister, Delhi, Singh, Dimitri Medvedev, Michelle Obama, United States, The US, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitry Medvedev, The UN, China, Dave Cameron, World News

The mandarins of New Delhi must be pleased as punch to have had over to visit leaders of all five permanent member countries in quick succession. Inexorable appears the march but will India find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

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Joseph Stiglitz on Gordon Brown

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Joseph Stiglitz, Bear Stearns, UK, Prime Minister, Henry Paulson, Financial TImes, David Cameron, Slate, England, President Obama, Tim Geithner, Tory, Ben Bernanke, Financial Collapse, Business News

We may never know for certain whether former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was the great and magnanimous hero of Stiglitz's telling or a figure brought low by forces he failed to foresee.

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Tony Blair Memoir

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, Random House, Saddam Hussein, Labour Party, A Journey, Tony Blair, Booksellers, Iraq, Amazon, Anti-War, Books News

LONDON — It's a political memoir with celebrity trappings – secrecy, security, a multimillion-dollar deal and, crucially, controversy. To...

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Gordon Brown, Ousted British Prime Minister, To Publish Financial Crisis Book In November

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, Book Publishing, Books, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, British PM, Books News

LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is publishing an insider account of the global financial crisis, his first book since being ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Slammed By Wife In New Book

CNN | Kyung Lah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nobuko Kan, Prime Minister, Gentosha, Japan, Naoto Kan, First Lady, Book Publishing, Books News

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is used to political lashings. But the latest one is not from an opposition party -- it's from his own wife. In a b...

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New Law On Jewish Conversion Threatens Israeli Government

ABC News | Simon McGregor-Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Conversion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu T, Israel, Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Conversion Law, Prime Minister, Judaism, World News

A new bill to change the rules governing how people who convert to Judaism are treated in Israel is threatening a domestic political crisis and has sp...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Clegg, UK Election Debate, UK, France, Germany, European Union, Spain, Europe, London, UK Election, Liberals, Financial Crisis, Bank of England, Liberal Democrats, Financial Regulation, UK Politics, Gordon Brown, British Election, David Cameron, Nick Clegg Bio, Democrats, National Debt, National Debt Soars, Green News, UK Parliament, Pm, Prime Minister, Business, Business News, Global Economy, Green Living, Greece, Facebook, Twitter, World News

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Global Economy, Nick Clegg Bio, Liberals, France, David Cameron, Spain, Business, Facebook, London, Gordon Brown, UK Parliament, Bank of England, National Debt, British Election, Greece, Germany, National Debt Soars, Business News, Financial Crisis, Pm, Prime Minister, Liberal Democrats, Financial Regulation, Twitter, UK Politics, Nick Clegg, European Union, Green Living, Democrats, UK Election Debate, Green News, Europe, UK Election, Banks, World News

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Netanyahu To Be Questioned In Israeli Flotilla Probe

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Defense Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Pakistan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Gaza Strip, Flotilla Raid, Prime Minister, Mavi Marmara @Y:World, World News

JERUSALEM — The Israeli commission of inquiry into last month's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla will summon the country's prime minis...

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Gulf Oil Spill Damage Reaches South Africa

Bill Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: England, House of Commons, Bp, President Obama, Football, Soccer, Oil Spill, Question Time, David Cameron, Comedy, Prime Minister, World Cup, Comedy News

A high-ranking White House official confirmed that President Obama had pressed the Prime Minister for a U.S. victory as a partial payback for the devastating damages caused by B.P..

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Why Obama Should Attend President Lech Kaczynski's Funeral

Dominika Jaworski | Posted 05.25.2011

Maintaining strong diplomatic relations and friendship in a time of profound national grief with Poland can be accomplished easily: President Obama should attend President Kaczynski's funeral.

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Exceptional Democracy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Third Party, Parliament, American Exceptionalism, Primary, Legislative, Executive, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Iraq, American, Democracy, Parliamentary, Congress, Election Season, Britain, America, President, Election, Government, Exceptionalism, Prime Minister, Chris Weigant, Representative Democracy, Sadr, Party, Calendar, British, Maliki, Al-Sadr, Minority, Al Maliki, Politics News

If America is truly supposed to be exceptional in all things, why do other countries -- almost without exception -- decide our governmental structure isn't really for them, when it comes time to choose?

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Tehran's Strategic Defeat in Iraq

Alireza Jafarzadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sunnis, Elections, Iraq, America, Ayad Allawi, Iraqi, Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh, Shiites, Tehran, March 7, Defeat, Maliki, Prime Minister, Parliament, Iraqiya, Strategic, World News

The triumph of the cross-sectarian and nationalist Iraqiya list, headed by former PM Ayad Allawi, represents a major threat to the ambitious agenda of the regime in neighboring Iran.

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Gordon Brown Resignation Speech Video

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, Gordon Brown Resigns, Gordon Brown Resignation, UK Election, UK Prime Minister, Video, World News

Gordon Brown resigned as prime minister of Great Britain Tuesday, allowing Conservative Party leader David Cameron to become the new UK prime minister...

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Gordon Brown To Resign As Labour Party Leader (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, Labour Party, UK Elections, Prime Minister, UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown Resignation, Gordon Brown Resigns, World News

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today that he will ask the Labour Party to organize a leadership election so that he can be replaced. Br...

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Televised Political Debates Dumb Down Democracy

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice Presidential Debate, Presidential Debates, UK Election, 2008 Election, Prime Minister, World News

TV debates encourage us to judge politicians with the values of Hollywood. The danger is that in the minds of many viewers, cogent policies take second place to whiter teeth or a stronger jawline.

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Japan's Prime Minister Dr. Hatoyama, Debt, and Toyota

Sunil Chacko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Hatoyama, Ceo, Congress, Prime Minister, Mr. Akio Toyoda, Japenese Prime Minister Resign, Toyota Recall, Japan's Economy, Business News

Over the past decades, Japan has often presented the sorry spectacle of its Prime Ministers resigning every few months.

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Meet Haiku Herman--Europe's New Poet President

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: European Council, Prime Minister, Art, Herman Van Rombuy, Haiku, Writing, Europe, Belgium, Poetry, Poem, John Lundberg, Healthy Living News

Van Rompuy is becoming known throughout the continent for his passion for writing poetry. Dubbed "Haiku Herman" by the British press, he is said to regularly compose haikus during his daily meetings.

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Meet Dubai's Billionaire Ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

AP | BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dubai, Sheik, Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President UAE, Sheik Mohammed, Prime Minister, Ruler, Business News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai's ruler writes poetry, rides horses across the desert in long-distance endurance races and hobnobs with roya...

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