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Pop Star Joss Stone Under Attack for Marijuana Comment

Mason Tvert | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Marijuana Legalization, United Kingdom, Marijuana, Joss Stone, Alcohol, Gordon Brown, Cannabis, Medical Research Counsel, Medical Marijuana, David Nutt, Safer, Entertainment News

Stone is not alone in her belief that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. She has some pretty solid back-up among the UK's scientific community.

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Brown: NATO Troop Increase For Afghanistan Possible

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Warwire, Afghanistan, Nato, NATO Troops, World News

LONDON — Britain's prime minister says NATO nations may contribute 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan – offering key backing as the U.S. dec...

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Gordon Brown, British PM, Faces "Bullying" From British News Corp Paper The Sun

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, News Corp, The Sun, UK Troops, PM Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, The Guardian, England, Rupert Murdoch, Jacqui Janes, Murdoch, News Corporation, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Afghanistan War, World News

Gordon Brown's poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime ...

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Brown Apologizes After Misspelling Name Of Dead Soldier In Letter To His Mother

Guardian | Adam Gabbatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, British Soldiers, United Kingdom, Jamie Janes, World News

Gordon Brown has apologised to the mother of a dead serviceman who took offence after he sent her a handwritten letter of condolence that misspelled h...

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Bank Tax: Geithner And U.K.'s Gordon Brown Face Off On Bank Transaction Tax At G20 Meeting

Times Online | By Suzy Jagger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Bank Tax, U.K., Tim Geithner, Stimulus, g20, Bank Transaction Tax, Saint Andrews Scotland, Business News

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner clashed over potential taxes on bank transactio...

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Parliamentarians for Pneumonia

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Carol Shea-Porter, Gordon Brown, Bill Frist, Des Turner, Pneumonia, Bangladesh, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Treatment, GAVI Alliance, Save the Children, Child Survival, Vaccines, World News

More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.

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Brown: British Troops Will Be Removed If Afghanistan Does Not Tackle Corruption

AP | GREGORY KATZ | Posted 11.06.2009 | World

Read More: War Wire, Afghan War, Brown British Troops, Gordon Brown, Brown Afghanistan, Afghanistan, British Troops, World News

LONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan...

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Gordon Brown: Murdoch's Sun Trying To "Become A Political Party"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Gordon Brown, The Sun, The Sun Labour, James Murdoch, Labour Party, Gordon Brown the Sun, Media News

Another international leader has come out attacking a Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlet as a political operative. As the White House continues its wa...

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Britain's Silent Conservative Movement

Emily Henry | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Nick Griffin, Britain, Bnp, Question-Time, Gordon Brown, Conservative Party, England, Great Britain, Jack Straw, British Politics, Labor Party, David Dimbleby, World News

Britain is tearing up its socialist roots and traversing a path back to conservatism. For those who feel sidelined in the immigration debate, the BNP has become a solution - albeit an extreme one.

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Joe Scarborough Needs to Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Gordon Brown, Msnbc, Joe Scarborough, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Stephen Harper, David Miliband, Afghanistan, Nato, United States, China, Barack Obama, Canada, Afghanistan War, World News

The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.

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Will the Chinese Courts Allow Another Mentally Ill Individual Be Executed?

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Mental Illness, Gordon Brown, Death Penalty in the United States, Chinese Criminal Procedure Law, Chinese Criminal Law, Drug Trafficking in China, Supreme People's Court, Death Penalty in China, Death Penalty, China, Xinjiang, Akmal Shaikh, Urumqi, World News

The true test of a society's criminal justice system is how well it protects society's most vulnerable.

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Afghanistan Strategy Review: Obama Focuses On Civilian Efforts

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Scott Wilson | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Obama Afghanistan, Barack-Obama-Afghanistan, Gordon-Brown-Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Obama, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, War Wire, World News

President Obama, convening his fifth war council meeting in as many weeks, pressed his senior national security advisers Wednesday on the political si...

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Why Is the UK in Afghanistan?

James Denselow | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Afganistan Troop Increase, British Troops, Afghan War, World News

The British priority in Afghanistan is less about any particular vision for a democratic, stable or terrorist free country, but rather the strategic future of NATO and more importantly the US-UK alliance.

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UK Royal Family Honors Fallen, Marks 'End Of Iraq War'

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Gordon Brown, Uk, United-Kingdom, The United Kingdom, Prince William, United Kingdom, British Royal Family, Prince-William, Iraq, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, War in Iraq, The Queen, World News

LONDON — At a memorial service honoring Britons who died during the Iraq war, the Archbishop of Canterbury said Friday it will take time for his...

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Gordon Brown 'Refused Extra Afghan Troops': Says Former Army Head Gen Sir Richard Dannatt

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused a major Afghanistan troop reinforcement against the military's advice, the former head of the Army has said....

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Who's Keeping Secrets?

Judith Ellis | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Brown, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, John Bolton, United Nations, United Nation, Angela Merkel, Israel, Dimrty Medvedev, Nuclear Proliferation, Nicholas Sarkozy, Barack Obama, China, Politics News

When it comes to secrecy and international politics, we wink and nod when necessary.

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Brown And Sarkozy Fought With Obama Over Iranian Nuclear Announcement

Daily Telegraph | Alex Spillius | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Gordon Brown, Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons Program, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Business News

The President is believed to have angered the European leaders by insisting on delaying a joint press conference until after he had chaired a meeting ...

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The Iran and Obama Dance

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Nuclear Negotiations, Sarkozy, Nuclear Program, US-Iran Relations, War With Iran, Afghanistan, Iranian, President Obama, p5 +1, Gordon Brown, Iran, Barack Obama, Gang Rape, Political Prisoners, Iraq, Pittsburgh, Dissidents, World News

It's not Obama's fault that Iraq and Afghanistan happened, but it will be his fault if he rushes into a threat-laden, pseudo-engagement with Iran at this historical crossroads in US-Iran relations.

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Iranian Crisis: The Run-Up To Negotiation

William Bradley | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

There's a point in the Iran situation where semantics come into play. Is Iran on a path to nuclear weapons-capable technology? Yes. Is it producing nuclear weapons? No. Does it intend to produce nuclear weapons?

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The Sun Turns On Labour, Gordon Brown

The Sun | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Gordon Brown, The Sun, Labour Party, Media News

At the 2005 election, we and our readers believed Labour had many failings but gave them one last chance over a lacklustre Tory party. They have ha...

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G-20 Doesn't Offer Much Reform

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Imf, G20 Summit, Wto, Obama g20, g20, World Bank, Gordon Brown, World News

The expansion from the G-8 to the G-20 is mostly a symbolic move. Since the rich countries control the institutions with actual power, the G-20 is still mainly the G-7 with the other 13 countries sitting in.

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Labour Party Fighting for Life Against Conservatives in U.K

Ben Cohen | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, Tory Party, World News

When the Conservative Party talks about cutting costs, it isn't talking about hurting the rich. The poor will bear the brunt of the new 'streamlined' government as cuts are made to education, health care and welfare.

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