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Gordon Brown 'Furious' Over Smear Emails

Press Association | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown was "furious" when he found out about the smear emails written by a key aide about top Tories, his spokesman said today amid renewed Tory...

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Damian McBride, Senior Adviser To Gordon Brown, Forced To Quit Over Emails Smearing Opposition

Guardian | Gaby Hinsliff | Posted 05.12.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Tories, Damian McBride, Damian McBride Quits, David Cameron, World News

Gordon Brown is today engulfed in crisis after a key aide resigned and the Tories threatened legal action over explosive leaked emails discussing how ...

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Obama's New Geopolitics: 10 Key Takeaways

William Bradley | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Turkey, Dmitri Medvedev, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Iraq, G-20, Britain, Dick Cheney, Gordon Brown, Iran, Nato, Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Afghanistan, India, Cold War, London, World News

Obama's just-concluded big international tour is part of a major reshuffling in geopolitics. Here are 10 key takeaways from happenings in and around his trip.

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UK Terror Plot 'Very Big': Gordon Brown

Press Association | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

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The Prime Minister defended the anti-terror operation in the North West of England after the sudden resignation of Britain's most senior counter-terro...

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Bob Quick: UK Anti-Terror Chief Resigns Over Document Reveal

AP | NANCY ZUCKERBROD | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

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LONDON — Britain's top counter-terrorist police officer resigned Thursday after he was photographed carrying clearly visible secret documents ab...

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Living In The Possibility-Based Global Community

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Yes We Can, Islam, Women, Michelle Obama, Nato, Turkey, Hope, Optimism, Globalization, Democracy, Media, Faith-Based Community, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Internet, G20 Summit, Positive Thinking, Hugging, Reality-Based Community, Soft Power, Youtube, Love, Living News

If we are unaware of the deliberate grasping and transforming of reality that Obama is exercising through the world's media, we will be constantly led by the images of Barack and Michelle "being the change."

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Public Pressure Made A Difference At The G20 - Here's Why

Paul Hilder | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Green New Deal, Pressure, Avaaz, Unions, Green Hard Hats, Green Recovery, g20, Gordon Brown, Sarkozy, Hu Jintao, Merkel, Obama, London Summit, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

It's far from time to go home and chill in satisfaction. But unprecedented processes have been put in motion to fix global finance.

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After the G20: What Was Achieved?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Michelle Obama, Regulation, Barack Obama, g20, Stimulous, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

What was accomplished? Some windows were broken. A demonstrator died, The police, as usual, overreacted. The media has moved on. In all, not too encouraging.

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Re-Setting the Geopolitical Table: How Obama's Big Trip Is Going

William Bradley | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Angela Merkel, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Prague, Vladimir Putin, London, Gordon Brown, Nato, Barack Obama, Poland, Germany, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Czech Republic, Iraq, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ankara, Dmitri Medvedev, Anti-Missile Shield, G-20, World News

The G-20 went well. Not as well as advertised, which is par for most any political course, but much better than most of the Gs -- 7, 8, or 20.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Lebanon, Hu Jintao, Hague Summit, Arab Summit, Barack Obama, Dmitry Medvedev, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, G20 Summit, Manmohan Singh, Iraq Security, Angela Merkel, Turkey Summit, Israel, Palestinian Unity Talks, Azerbaijan, Nato Summit, World News

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:New Israeli Leadership Sounds the Drumbeat to War Facts: Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the Li...

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What Europe Really Needs is a Good Shrink

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sweden, Silvio Berlusconi, Angela Merkel, European Union, Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, g20, Nicolas Sarkozy, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Shrink, World News

Europe needs to make some huge psychological leap. I am living in Sweden and honestly, President Obama seems to care more about me than any of the big European leaders.

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G-20: I See England, I See France...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

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First the skinny guy shakes everybody's hand -- then he tells us he's got a cold!

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Obama's Foreign Policy: Nothing Personal

Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

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Obama has to walk a pretty fine line on his current trip. He must demonstrate leadership without looking like the United States still has the ability -- or the credibility -- to define the agenda.

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What Real Diplomacy Looks Like

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Barack Obama showed up in Europe this week and the world did not simply swoon at his feet. Some may choose to portray that as failure, but they would be dead wrong.

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Live from the G-20 Summit: Another Blogger Breakthrough

Sam Graham-Felsen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sam Graham Felsen, Bloggers, Sam Stein, Richard Murphy, g20voice, G-20, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Media News

Today, at the G-20 Summit in London, blogger Richard Murphy was called on by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- another historic breakthrough for the blogosphere.

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G-20 Leaders Arrive At Summit (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

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G-20 leaders arrived at the Excel Center in London today. Watch British Prime Minister Gordon Brown greet the heads of state. ...

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Alison Woodhead: Brown's Busiest Day

G20Voice | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown repeatedly made the point that Thursday is part of a process of building a new economy; not an attempt to solve it all in one day.

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Limbaugh: Obama May Give Gordon Brown "Anal Poisoning"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

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Wow. Whatever bet L.A. Times columnist Andrew Klavan thought he was making by daring people to listen to Rush Limbaugh and find one instance of the t...

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G-20 Protesters Break Into Royal Bank Of Scotland In London (SLIDESHOW)

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

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LONDON - G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in downtown London on Wednesday, breaking into the heavily guarded Royal Bank of Scotland and smashi...

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G-20 Summit: Schedule, Photos, Video, Updates

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

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Political and financial leaders and delegates are convening In London for Thursday's G-20 Summit, which will address the global financial crisis. Bac...

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Merkel Attacks British PM Brown's Plan For "Global New Deal"

Times London | Jonathan Oliver and Bojan Pancevski | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business

Read More: G-20 Summit, Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown, Global Economy, Economy, g20, Germany, Business News

Gordon Brown's carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders. Angela M...

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U.K. May Change Monarchy Marriage Rules

Wall Street Journal | AARON O. PATRICK | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Uk, Gordon Brown, Prince Harry, UK Monarcy, Prince William, United Kingdom, World News

The prohibition on British monarchs marrying Catholics, and the primacy of princes over princesses in regal succession would become relics of history ...

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G-20 Summit: Gordon Brown Optimistic

BBC | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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Mr Brown says he is optimistic about the summit after Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown said it had to produce more than "empty promises"....

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Biden Pens Op-Ed To Latin America

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Joe Biden Vp, Latin America, United Kingdom, Brazil, Biden Op-Ed, Foreign Affairs, Argentina, Michelle Bachelet, Cristina Fernandez De Kirchner, Spain, Joe Biden, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Gordon Brown, Biden, Advocacy, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, World News

Vice President Biden is currently in Chile for the Progressive Governance Summit, where he will meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, UK Prim...

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Biden Visits Chile For Progressive Governance Summit

AP | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

SANTIAGO, Chile — U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden is in Chile to attend a summit of leaders from Latin America and Europe. Biden flew to Chile...

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