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/ 26 September 2008
Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 23 September 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown defied his critics on Tuesday, vowing to stick by his beliefs and fight to make life better for people living in Britain.
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/ 23 September 2008
He is nicknamed "Brains" and is loved by the Labour faithful, but David Miliband insists he does not want a coup against Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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/ 19 September 2008
Dissent over British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s faltering performance is threatening to hit a crescendo this weekend.
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/ 18 September 2008
Larry Elliott takes a look at the bail-out which is a nationalisation designed to avert the worst market collapse since the 1930s.
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/ 13 September 2008
A senior member of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s ruling Labour Party said on Saturday he should face a leadership challenge.
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/ 8 September 2008
With his popularity sagging in the face of an economic slowdown, Prime Minister Gordon Brown took his Cabinet into the British heartland on Monday.
Mandy Rossouw put a similar set of questions to both Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change to assess the political temperature.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is hoping to shore up his flagging political fortunes via his office’s own TV channel.
The British public remains largely unaware of the industrial killing of civilians in Britain’s modern colonial wars.
Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy back plan for solar panels in the North African desert, writes Alok Jha.
The Labour Party lost one of its safest seats on Friday, deepening doubts about Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s ability to win the next election.
Controversial plans for the first new settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in almost a decade have been revived by Israel.
British companies doing business in Zimbabwe must find the noise from their government and the international community disconcerting.
Gordon Brown will hold urgent talks with European leaders about Zimbabwe on Sunday after a UN sanctions plan collapsed in disarray.
The UK told Russia at the G8 summit that the issue of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko’s death ”would not be closed”.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s hopes of a thaw in the United Kingdom’s relationship with the Kremlin received a setback on Monday.
Last month British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged British companies to stop investing in Zimbabwe, saying his government was preparing sanctions.
The confidence of the UK electorate has gone,
writes Julian Glover
Britain has set out plans for an increase in renewable energy in a scheme welcomed for its ambition but criticised for lacking concrete policies.
British PM Gordon Brown has said he wants the Zimbabwe cricket team to be banned from touring England next year and from the 2009 T20 World Cup.
World energy powers embarked on a new level of dialogue to rein in runaway oil prices at an emergency meeting in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Sunday.
The UK and the US urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday to allow international monitors to ensure a free election run-off.
United States President George Bush urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday not to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Britain is ”reviewing” Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s honorary knighthood, a government spokesperson said on Monday, amid reports that the first steps had been taken to revoke the title. On Monday, Channel 4 News television reported, without citing its sources, that the first steps had been taken to strip Mugabe of the knighthood.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe made a surprise appearance on Monday at a world food summit in Rome, drawing fierce criticism from the British government. In his first official trip abroad since elections in March, Mugabe attended the summit organised by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew into Rome for a global food summit on Sunday, his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western and opposition leaders as fraudulent. A British Foreign Office spokesperson said: ”It is a matter of concern to us and we would prefer that he did not attend.”
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday his government had bought 600 000 tonnes of maize to ease food shortages ahead of a June 27 presidential election run-off. Zimbabwe, once home to a prosperous agricultural sector, is suffering chronic food shortages.
The United States will no longer be able to stockpile cluster bombs at its military bases in Britain under government proposals for an international ban on the controversial weapons. As diplomats from more than 100 states unanimously passed a treaty banning the use of cluster bombs, it emerged that British ministers are prepared to go further.
An agreement banning cluster bombs has cheered human rights campaigners, but powerful military states are refusing to join it and experts say the treaty is riddled with holes and could prove unworkable. The agreement commits 111 countries to banning the use of cluster munitions.
World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the world’s poor dying of hunger as a result of soaring food prices. The summit in Rome is expected to pledge immediate aid to poor countries threatened by malnutrition as well as charting longer-term strategies for improving food production.
Britain’s opposition Conservative Party won a mid-term parliamentary seat from the ruling Labour Party on Friday in a new blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s bludgeoned political fortunes. The Conservatives’ win in the northern town of Crewe was the party’s first gain from Labour in a mid-term election since 1978.