Faced with a choice for its new president between the traffic-stopping Tony Blair and a capable but little-known Belgian, the EU's 27 leaders settled on Herman Van Rompuy, a man who would scarcely stop two mothers with strollers outside his own country.
Talks between the Israelis and Palestinians must be "credible" in order to achieve peace in the region and unlock the economic potential of a future Palestinian state, British leader-turned-Mideast envoy Tony Blair said Tuesday.
Two years since he stood down as prime minister of the UK, time away from frontline politics has not softened Tony Blair.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called before an inquiry into the country's role in the Iraq war, its chairman said during the opening Thursday.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair said Friday he was "not concerned" by a ruling that details of cabinet meetings in the run-up to the Iraq war should be made public and told CNN the release of the minutes was a decision for the current government.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has "a tremendous opportunity" to help negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that could help "empower the forces of ... moderation in the Islamic world," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday.
Ahead of next week's G8 summit in Japan, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for a united front against global warming
Can religion help solve the world's many conflicts? Britain's former Prime Minister thinks so
Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography
It could be argued when Tony Blair left the office of Prime Minister in June, his parting from the public stage was mourned by few but chief among those mourners were Britain's satirists. The characteristics of the Blair government with its emphasis on spin and sound bites created a wealth of material for top British satirist Craig Brown.
Faced with a choice for its new president between the traffic-stopping Tony Blair and a capable but little-known Belgian, the EU's 27 leaders settled on Herman Van Rompuy, a man who would scarcely stop two mothers with strollers outside his own country.
Talks between the Israelis and Palestinians must be "credible" in order to achieve peace in the region and unlock the economic potential of a future Palestinian state, British leader-turned-Mideast envoy Tony Blair said Tuesday.
Two years since he stood down as prime minister of the UK, time away from frontline politics has not softened Tony Blair.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be called before an inquiry into the country's role in the Iraq war, its chairman said during the opening Thursday.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair said Friday he was "not concerned" by a ruling that details of cabinet meetings in the run-up to the Iraq war should be made public and told CNN the release of the minutes was a decision for the current government.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has "a tremendous opportunity" to help negotiate an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that could help "empower the forces of ... moderation in the Islamic world," former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday.
Ahead of next week's G8 summit in Japan, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls for a united front against global warming
Can religion help solve the world's many conflicts? Britain's former Prime Minister thinks so
Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography
It could be argued when Tony Blair left the office of Prime Minister in June, his parting from the public stage was mourned by few but chief among those mourners were Britain's satirists. The characteristics of the Blair government with its emphasis on spin and sound bites created a wealth of material for top British satirist Craig Brown.
If Tony Blair is considering running for EU president, he may find the going tough if his weekend sojourn in France is anything to go by
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said the world must not be "forced into retreat" against Islamic terrorists as it faced a situation similar to the Nazi threat before World War II.
The former British leader's only chance of easing tensions may be to chart a different course than Washington would like
Tony Blair, who barely two weeks ago handed over the reigns of power as Britain's prime minister to Gordon Brown, is planning a surprise visit to Allen & Co.'s annual media mogulfest at this mountain playground later in the week, Fortune has learned.
Brown's government tried to present a face of calm during the terror threats. Jacqui Smith proved that boring isn't always bad
Analysis: As Middle East peace envoy, the outgoing British PM may find the situation even more daunting than he expects
Uncomfortable political allies for more than a decade, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's rivalry continued in the pages of the British press on Thursday with many papers unsure whether to weight their coverage towards the outgoing or incoming prime minister.
Frenetic choreography occurs as Brown prepares to be Prime Minister and Blair gets set to be Mideast peace envoy
Israeli military strikes have killed 10 Palestinians, including seven in northern Gaza and three in southern Gaza, Palestinian security sources say.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been appointed special envoy to the Middle East, a statement for the the Quartet of Mideast peace mediators has confirmed.
Gordon Brown is the UK's new prime minister after replacing the outgoing Tony Blair on Wednesday.
When Tony Blair strode across a Manchester stage on Sunday June 24 and declared, "the new leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown," it was the moment his Downing Street neighbor had been waiting for, with growing impatience, for 13 years.
Tony Blair will become an envoy for Mideast peace, U.S. officials said Tuesday, Blair's last full day as Britain's prime minister.
The Bush administration wants British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be a Middle East peace envoy when he leaves office next week, senior U.S. officials said.
Gordon Brown has launched his campaign to be Britain's next prime minister, a day after Tony Blair announced he would stand down in June. Earlier, Blair delivered a ringing endorsement of Brown, who has served as his finance minister since 1997.
On a heady night in May 1997, a boyish Tony Blair -- triumphant and smiling -- greeted his giddy, flag-waving supporters, as the catchy pop tune "Things Can Only Get Better" played in the background.
Tony Blair announced Thursday he would step down as Labour Party leader and British prime minister, defending his record during his decade in power, but adding "my apologies to you for the times I've fallen short."
Having won three successive elections, and served as the British Prime Minister for the last 10 years, Tony Blair is bringing an end to his time in office.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with his Cabinet Thursday morning ahead of an expected midday announcement that he will stand down as Labour Party leader and prime minister after a decade in power.
All political careers, it is said, end in tears. Tony Blair leaves office with his reputation clouded by the disastrous outcome of the Iraq war and the "Cash for Honors" scandal, which could yet see some of those close to him charged with criminal offences. A decade on, historians may take a kinder view.
Prime Minister Tony Blair led his beleaguered Labour Party into electoral combat for the final time Thursday in local and regional elections that, amid his unpopularity, could put Scotland on the road toward independence from the rest of Britain.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday announced plans for the imminent withdrawal of around 1,600 of his country's troops from Iraq.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will order nearly half the British troops in Iraq home by the end of 2007, British news outlets reported early Wednesday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has refused to step down before police finish a political corruption probe into his party, despite fears the investigation is damaging his party.
British police have questioned UK Prime Minister Tony Blair for a second time as part of an investigation into political party funding, his spokesman says.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says it will take a generation to defeat what has emerged as a global movement of fundamentalist Muslim terrorists, a movement he described as "something more akin to revolutionary communism in its early and most militant phase."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will speak out against the execution of Saddam Hussein, calling the way it was carried out "completely wrong," officials at Downing Street told CNN.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday said it was investigating what led a British Airways Boeing 747 with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family on board to taxi beyond the runway at Miami International Airport.
A Boeing 747 carrying British Prime Minister Tony Blair missed a turn after landing and struck runway lights Tuesday at Miami International Airport, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized a decision by the European Union this week to freeze talks on his country's entry into the union, saying it was "very unfair."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been questioned by police in connection with a political fundraising scandal, his spokesperson said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair provoked a storm Saturday after apparently admitting that the invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain was "a disaster."
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he is in full agreement with comments his army chief made in a newspaper interview about British troop deployments in Iraq.
A man armed with a knife was arrested after climbing a fence behind British Prime Minister Tony Blair's London residence at 10 Downing Street, police said Monday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has addressed the Labour Party for the last time as its leader, saying "it's the right time to go" and calling on members to continue the reforms of the past decade in order to win a fourth term in government.
Nearly a month after the United Nations brokered a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered "sympathy and solidarity" to his Israeli counterpart Saturday for leading his country during difficult times.
The international community should restore contacts with a future Palestinian unity government if it breaks with the current policies of the Hamas-led administration, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to visit the Middle East this weekend with an eye on offering ideas for a comprehensive peace, sources told CNN.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced he will leave office within a year. We asked for your verdict on his years in power and his legacy. The following are a selection of your replies, some of which have been edited.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he will resign from office within a year, but has refused to set a date for his departure.
Trying to quell politically damaging turmoil snowballing within the ranks of his own Labor Party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce Thursday that he will leave office within a year.
The acrimonious row over the timing of the departure from office of British Prime Minister Tony Blair has grown with the resignation of a dissident minister and six ministerial aides.
The eldest son of Tony Blair has left a hospital in Barbados where he was being treated for stomach pains, the British prime minister's office said Friday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will delay the start of his holiday to work on a U.N. deal for a cease-fire in Lebanon, his office says.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday he was "hopeful" that the United Nations Security Council would agree a resolution implementing a cease-fire in the Middle East within the next few days.
The conflict in the Middle East, as well as others involving Muslim extremists, revolve around "modernization within Islam" and whether the Western system of values can "beat theirs," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in a speech Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday he hoped a peace plan to secure a cease-fire in Lebanon would emerge in the next few days.
U.S. President George W. Bush and British PM Tony Blair have laughed off the moment when their unguarded comments were broadcast to the world on a live microphone at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg.
An open microphone caught President Bush in an unguarded moment Monday as the escalating crisis in the Middle East prompted him to use an expletive in a conversation with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday he had "no illusions" that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death would end the violence in Iraq but welcomed it as a blow to al Qaeda everywhere.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he is "101 percent" behind police officers who conducted an anti-terrorist raid during which a suspect was shot.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush acknowledged that the war in Iraq hasn't gone as smoothly as they had hoped, and as Bush dodged questions about withdrawing troops Blair said it's "possible" they could be replaced with Iraqi security forces by the end of 2007.
After meeting with the leaders of Iraq's new government, British Prime Minister Tony Blair called its inauguration a "new beginning" that removes any excuse insurgents have to commit violence.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair told his monthly news conference that to set a date for his retirement would "paralyze" the working of his government.
Critics of the Iraq war have urged UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign after a helicopter crash killed up to five British soldiers in Basra.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair axed his under-fire law and order minister and demoted his foreign secretary in a wide-ranging Cabinet reshuffle after his party was humiliated in regional elections.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's embattled Labour Party suffered major losses in local elections in England, which could increase pressure on Blair to announce a date for stepping down as prime minister.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to normalize defense ties with Indonesia during his visit to the world's most populous Muslim nation.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a global alliance to defend universal values of justice, fairness and freedom from fear.
The Economist, Britain's venerable weekly news magazine, has called on Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign. The magazine's political leaning in the United Kingdom is to the right of the newsweeklies in the United States. In fact, the Economist's political position is right of center, though it is very fastidious about the positions it takes. Reading it is somewhat like reading the official voice of the Vatican, though with none of the puckish humor of L'Osservatore Romano. At any rate, I read the Economist regularly and enjoy it, but calling on Blair to resign strikes me as a publicity stunt, except that the editors of the Economist see themselves as above such opportunism, much as the Pope sees himself as above such opportunism.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says God and history will judge whether he was right to go to war in Iraq, according to the transcript of a television interview to be broadcast Saturday.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended Prince Charles, saying the heir to the throne is entitled to express his views and has never taken sides in party politics.
A hearing for two British bureaucrats accused of providing a tabloid newspaper with a secret memo about a purported conversation between U.S. President George W. Bush and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair should take place behind closed doors, prosecutors said in a request made Tuesday.
A British fathers' rights group says it will disband after a newspaper reported that extremist group members planned to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair's 5-year-old son.
Tony Blair has revealed that he once smacked his older children -- but has given up the practice for his youngest child, 5-year-old Leo.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has faced a barrage of criticism over the EU budget deal he brokered as European lawmakers said they could not accept it unless governments put up more cash.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair found himself in a major row at home and abroad on the future of the EU budget as he stopped off in Hungary as part of his tour to meet eastern European leaders.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned new eastern EU members not to miss out on a budget deal and the newcomers signaled they could accept a small cut in planned aid.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has suffered his first major parliamentary defeat, losing a key vote on new anti-terror laws.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the European Parliament that he hopes to resolve a bitter row over the European Union's budget when members meet for a summit in December.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says evidence points to Iranian ties to bombings in Iraq, although Britain does not have definite proof.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Tony Blair have pledged to increase their joint efforts to combat terrorism.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized to an 82-year-old man who was thrown out of the Labour Party's annual meeting after heckling Foreign Secretary Jack Straw over the Iraq war.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced new measures to deport and exclude from UK anyone advocating hatred and violence.
An estimated 3,600 people have died in Northern Ireland's 30 years of troubles. Now, with the IRA's declaration that it is ending the armed struggle, politicians hope there'll never be another victim.
The wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged the government not to undermine civil liberties in its response to the terrorist attacks in London.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that much of the world had dropped its guard to the threat of terrorism after the "wake-up call" of the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
The son of British Prime Minister Tony Blair was involved in a car crash with an elderly cyclist earlier this week, officials say.
Saying that "we can't minimize incidents" such as the attempted explosions London on Thursday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said authorities are "fairly clear" on what happened.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected comments by London's mayor that Western "double standards" in the Middle East contributed to the growth of Islamic extremism and terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Muslim leaders on Tuesday to discuss ways of tackling homegrown Islamic extremism in the wake of the July 7 terrorist attacks in London.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Saturday blamed an "evil ideology" -- not a "clash of civilizations" -- for the deadly London attacks, and he exhorted Britons of all stripes to battle this movement and "pull this up by its roots."
Prime Minister Tony Blair has expressed his shock that the four men believed to have carried out last week's deadly terrorist attacks on London's transit system were British nationals.
Addressing the House of Commons for the first time since Thursday's string of terrorist bombings ripped through the capital, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed his nation "will not rest" until those behind the attacks are brought to justice.
``A week is a long time in politics,'' the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said. His successor, Tony Blair, just found that out for himself.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced "very substantial progress" in addressing African poverty at the G8 summit on Friday, but acknowledged only limited advancement on the other top issue on the agenda, global climate change.
After returning to England Thursday from the G8 summit in Scotland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair met with key advisors about the explosions that struck London that morning.
Flanked by the somber leaders of the world's largest industrial nations at the G8 summit in Scotland, British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned what he said were likely terrorist attacks in London.
World leaders expressed their condolences to the British people Thursday and sent messages to Prime Minister Tony Blair that they were united in the fight against terrorism.
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations are continuing their summit in defiance of the deadly explosions that rocked London.
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