Tony Blair’s hopes of leading Britain into the single currency before the next general election are in ruins after Labour loyalists admitted this week that Downing Street’s battle with the BBC has ”derailed” the pro-euro campaign.
The sequence of events surrounding the leaking of David Kelly’s name prior to his suicide implicates the UK’s Ministry of Defence and Blair’s office. Now, fingers are being pointed left, right and centre. Whose head will roll?
Saddam Hussein and his key lieutenants are to face a new war crimes court, one of the parties in Iraq’s new power-sharing council announced yesterday.
It is bound to go down as one of the great moments in PR history. With United States tanks rolling into Baghdad and the sound of artillery fire reverberating around the city, Iraq’s ever jovial Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, popped up to declare that the ”infidels” were facing ”slaughter”.
Britain and the United States have all but fired the first shots of the second Gulf war by dramatically extending the range of targets in the ”no-fly zones” over Iraq to soften up the country for an allied ground invasion.
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/ 19 February 2003
The lure of rich natural resources proves too good to resist on the subcontinent. A dramatic improvement has taken place in the investment climate in Southern Africa in the past two years, according to a recent report by the BusinessMap Foundation on investment in the South African Development Community
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/ 4 February 2003
The United States has evidence of an orchestrated Iraqi attempt to spy on United Nations weapons inspectors using hidden microphones and agents, allowing Baghdad to stay one step ahead of the search for banned weapons, US sources said this week.
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/ 21 January 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Camp David summit with United States President George W Bush at the end of the month could be the last time they look each other in the eye before plunging their alliance into a new war with Iraq. The UN weapons inspectors will just have presented their report.
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/ 21 January 2003
The British government yesterday committed a huge military force to a possible war against Iraq in the clearest signal yet that it believes the US is preparing to call time on the UN weapons inspectors’ mission and launch an invasion of the country.
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/ 28 September 2002
Diplomats from the ”big five” powers, which call the shots at the United Nations, are bracing themselves for a fresh round of intensive negotiations on Iraq.
when the US tables its draft resolution at the Security Council, the doors will close again as diplomats work round the clock to agree a final text.