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EU Bans UK Animal Exports

Probe of possible source widens to include summer flooding

Aug 6, 07 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The EU imposed an indefinite ban today on exports of live animals from Great Britain after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease on a farm in southeast England. The floods that have swamped the English countryside may have played a role in the outbreak, the Guardian reports, and PM... More »

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food • health • disease • European Union • Gordon Brown • exports • ban • Britain • outbreak • animal

UK Cattle Test Positive for Foot-and-Mouth

New outbreak forces farm quarantine, ban on livestock transport

Aug 4, 07 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain faces its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in six years after a herd of beef cattle in Guildford tested positive, reports the Independent. The news forced Gordon Brown to cancel his vacation as the government introduced emergency measures banning all transportation of cattle and pigs and throwing up a... More »

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food • agriculture • disease • Gordon Brown • livestock • beef • safety • Guildford • Britain • outbreak

Bush, Brown Back UN Iraq Force

Security Council resolution could mark beginning of exit strategy

Aug 3, 07 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US and UK have circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would greatly increase the UN's role in Iraq, writes the Times of London. The resolution follows Bush and Brown's meeting at Camp David and is seen as a step towards an exit strategy from Iraq... More »

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Iraq • United Nations • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • United States • Zalmay Khalilzad • Iraq exit strategy • George W. Bush • UN Security Council

Bolton: UK Can Have Just One Closest Ally

It's the EU or us, writes former UN ambassador

Aug 1, 07 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Famously combative John Bolton claims that the fate of the US-UK "special relationship" lies entirely with Gordon Brown and the new British government. In an op-ed for the Financial Times, the former UN ambassador writes that the new PM must choose sides: either stand by the US or continue... More »

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diplomacy • European Union • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • United States • John Bolton • Britain

UN OKs 26K Troops for Darfur

But force will have limited license

Jul 31, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Security Council voted today to send as many as 26,000 soldiers and police to Sudan, Reuters reports. But the combined UN-African Union peacekeeping troops will have permission to use force only to defend civilians and humanitarian workers, a watering-down of proposals that would have allowed troops to seize... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • Sudan • Gordon Brown • African Union • UN Security Council

Brown Sends Mixed Signals in Talks with Bush

British PM affirms shared values, remains muted on Iraq

Jul 30, 07 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - On his first US visit as PM, Gordon Brown today reaffirmed that the US and the UK stand together in the war on terrorism. Wrapping up 2 days of meetings with President Bush, Brown expressed disappointment with progress in Iraq, CNN reports, specifically noting difficulty "getting political reconciliation within... More »

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Gordon Brown • troop withdrawal • British troops • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Brown Visits US Amid Talk of Cooling Ties

New PM walks political tightrope over relations with White House

Jul 29, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown embarked today for his first call on President Bush, while the press at home speculated on whether the green PM's relationship with his counterpart was cooling or too warm. Brown's predecessor, Tony Blair, had a close relationship with Bush—too close for some UK observers. Iraq, a potential... More »

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Iraq • Gordon Brown • British terror attacks • British troops • Britain • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Brown Downplays
US Fissure

New PM will visit Camp David,
insists he isn't 'America's poodle'

Jul 27, 07 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britain's new Prime Minister is set to meet with President Bush at Camp David next week amid rumors that relations between the two nations have cooled since Tony Blair's departure. Brown is walking a tightrope between rebuffing this speculation and being seen as "America's poodle," an epithet Blair... More »

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Iraq • climate change • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • England • Labour Party • Camp David • America's poodle • prime minister • Britain • Iraq war

Oxford Evacuates as Water Rises

UK flood disaster continues

Jul 25, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of residents were evacuated from their Oxford homes today as water levels along the Thames neared their height. In the worst flooding the UK has seen in 60 years, hundreds of thousands are without drinking water, and power plants supplying many more are threatened. More »

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Gordon Brown • Oxford • flood • flooding • Gloucestershire • rationing • relief • Britain

Brits Win Little EU Support For Russian Battle

Moscow weighs 'targeted' response in clash over spy murder

Jul 18, 07 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain turned to its European allies for support in its diplomatic battle with Russia over a sensational radiation murder in London, but the response has been tepid, the Guardian reports. Only the French expressed support yesterday, as Germany, with powerful economic ties to Russia, suggested that the UK had overreacted,... More »

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Alexander Litvinenko • European Union • Gordon Brown • Andrei Lugovoi • polonium 210 • Gazprom

UK Tightens Screening of Foreign Docs

PM orders review of recruiting in wake of attempted bombings

Jul 4, 07 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UK is scaling up background checks on foreign doctors and other health workers in response to the revelation that eight suspects in the attempted London and Glasgow car bombings last weekend worked for the National Health Service, the Telegraph reports. PM Gordon Brown, in his first Question Time in... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Glasgow Airport • British terror attacks • car bomb • doctor • terrorist • Glasgow • Britain • al-Qaeda

Brown Proposes Significant Power Shift

PM seeks new role for Parliament, bill of rights, lower voting age

Jul 4, 07 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown used his first appearance before the House of Commons as PM yesterday to unveil a surprising slate of power-shifting reforms, including limiting his right to declare war and lowering the voting age to 16. The initiatives, which also include development of a bill of rights, could radically alter... More »

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United Kingdom • British Parliament • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • House of Commons • voting • Tory Party

5 Arrests in Glasgow Attack

The UK is on highest alert after Glasgow  attack linked to attempted London car bombs

Jul 1, 07 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The UK is on highest terror alert and five suspects are in custody in the aftermath of yesterday's  attempted attack on the Glasgow airport. Two were the drivers of the flaming car driven into the main terminal building; two were picked up in home searches nearby in Glasgow, and one... More »

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terrorism • London • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • British terror attacks • car bomb • airport • Glasgow • Britain

Exit Blair

PM takes final questions; queen asks Brown to form government

Jun 27, 07 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair handed his resignation to the queen at 1:15 this afternoon, ending a decade as prime minister of the United Kingdom marked by unprecedented prosperity but marred by a deeply unpopular war in Iraq. In a choreographed ritual, Elizabeth II asked Chancellor Gordon Brown, who has been waiting... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Queen Elizabeth II • war • Britain • Iraq war

UK Change of Guard Today

Blair will quit Parliament as Brown begins government shakeup

Jun 27, 07 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair is expected to resign from Parliament today as he vacates 10 Downing Street and is confirmed as the new international envoy to the Mideast. Gordon Brown, whose luggage is waiting curbside, will begin his shakeup of the government, with at least six ministers targeted for replacement, the Guardian... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Britain

Brown Vows to Lead New Era

Blair successor
as Labour chief
pledges to 'learn lessons' of Iraq

Jun 25, 07 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vowing to "heed and lead the call of change," Gordon Brown yesterday took the reins of Britain's ruling Labour Party before stepping into his new role as prime minister Wednesday. Brown is expected to loosen the close ties to Bush foreign policy that marked the Blair era and... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Britain

Brown Outlines Post-Blair Era

Proposes major initiatives - including transfer of war powers to Parliament

May 13, 07 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown is about to put some distance between himself and his former boss with a series of proposals laying out his vision, including giving Parliament the right to approve war powers, reports The Observer. With Blair pilloried for pusuing a profoundly unpopualr war almost single-handedly from Number 10, Brown... More »

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Tony Blair • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Tory Party • David Cameron • Britain

Who Is Gordon Brown?

May 10, 07 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Gordon Brown prepares to succeed Tony Blair, the current chancellor of the exchequer's plans for Britain's future are unclear. Brown's dour, brusque style is a sharp contrast to Blair's slick verbosity, but some see that as an advantage. “He’s not regarded as a prince of spin or... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • UK politics • Britain

Tony Blair Ends 10-Year Era

"The party will now select a new leader."

May 10, 07 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's official: Tony Blair will step down on June 27, as soon as a new Labour leader is chosen. Blair publicly announced his decision in his home constituency of Sedgefield, having told his cabinet earlier in the day. Blair's words prompted "much thumping of tables" by the cabinet, says... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Britain

Blair Will
Resign Tomorrow

British PM to back Brown Friday, step down in July

May 9, 07 10:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to formally announce his resignation tomorrow and anoint Chancellor Gordon Brown as his successor Friday. The Guardian reports he won't actually step down until July, but the announcement will signal the end of the Blair era and begin a divisive process of choosing... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • resignation • Conservative Party • Britain

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