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NEWS ABOUT: David Miliband

David Miliband stories: 26 news summaries

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Interview

 Clinton: I Didn't Want The Job 

Obama gave his secretary of state the hard sell

Nov 17, 09 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton accepted the Secretary of State job only because Barack Obama badgered her into it. In a glowing profile in Vogue , Clinton tells Jonathan Van Meter that she was “stunned” Obama wanted her. “I didn't want to do it. I just really had a lot of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • State Department • David Miliband • Vogue • interview • Obama administration

 Clinton: 
 Taliban 
 Threat to 
 Pakistan 
 Is Rising 


But secretary, on European tour, sees no danger of nukes falling into terrorist hands

Oct 11, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(AP) - An audacious Taliban attack on Pakistan's army headquarters shows there is a growing terrorist threat to the nuclear-armed US ally, Hillary Clinton said today. The secretary of state, speaking at a joint news conference with British counterpart David Miliband, added that while extremists were "increasingly threatening the authority of... More »

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Iran • Hillary Clinton • Taliban • Pakistan • David Miliband • Pakistan militants • nuclear arsenal

(Newser) - British commanders backed by US officials aim to use the success of recent offensives to persuade mid-level Taliban leaders to come in for talks and give up the fight, the Guardian reports. Conditions are right for the "second-tier" leaders who control large numbers of fighters in southern Afghanistan to... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • Taliban • insurgents • David Miliband • Afghanistan war • Afghanistan exit strategy

Iran Still 'Interrogating' 4 of 9 British Embassy Staffers

Four still held as UK decries 'harassment'

Jun 29, 09 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four of the nine staff members arrested at the British embassy in Tehran are still "being interrogated," reports the BBC, for what Iranian media described as collusion with the protests. The Iranian regime has condemned Britain throughout the crisis for meddling in the country's affairs. More »

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Iran • United Kingdom • David Miliband • embassy • embassy staff • Iranian election • Iranian protests

 Iran Detains British 
 Embassy Staff 

Says 8 local employees had taken part in election protests

Jun 28, 09 9:46 AM CDT
(AP) - Iranian authorities have detained several local employees of the British Embassy in Tehran, a move that Britain's foreign secretary today called "harassment and intimidation" and reflected a hardening of the regime's stance toward the West. Iranian media said eight local embassy staff were detained for an alleged role in... More »

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Iran • Tehran • David Miliband • Britain • embassy staff • Iranian election • Iranian protests

 EU Urges Sri Lanka 
 Ceasefire; 50K Trapped 

British, French foreign ministers arrive on island as war rages

Apr 29, 09 5:35 AM CDT
(AP) - The foreign ministers of France and Britain arrived in Sri Lanka today and urged the government to accept a ceasefire in its war with ethnic Tamil rebels. Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband insisted that the fighting must stop now in order to safeguard the estimated 50,000 civilians trapped in... More »

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Sri Lanka • Tamil Tigers • David Miliband • civil war • Bernard Kouchner

UK Judges Keep Gitmo Secret After US 'Threat'

Government tells courts to withhold evidence
in torture case

Feb 5, 09 7:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Binyam Mohamed, a British detainee at Guantanamo Bay, alleges that he has been tortured, and his lawyers petitioned a high court in London to release a document detailing his treatment. But yesterday two judges declined—after the British government informed them that the US might stop sharing intelligence with the... More »

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torture • David Miliband • Guantanamo Bay • blackmail • Guantanamo prisoners • Binyam Mohamed

OPINION

'War on Terror' Approach a
Big Mistake:
UK Official

Foreign sec Miliband rips Bush label

Jan 15, 09 5:37 AM CST
(Newser) - The notion of a "war on terror" is ill-conceived and may have done more harm than good in the fight against extremism, according to the British foreign secretary. There is no "unified transnational enemy," and the phrase coined by President Bush led officials to believe that... More »

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War on Terror • terrorism • Labour • David Miliband • terrorist

OPINION

As Crisis Bites, UK Changes Stance on Tibet

After a century of hedging, Britain says region is part of China

Nov 25, 08 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Last month Gordon Brown called on China to pump more money into the International Monetary Fund, whose coffers are nearly bare as more nations succumb to the global financial crisis. Only a few days later, writes Robert Barnett in the New York Times, the British government quietly announced a change... More »

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China • Gordon Brown • David Miliband • sovereignty • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetan independence

Britain Will Resist US Calls
for Afghan Buildup

Army stretched too thin, top commander says

Nov 10, 08 12:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Britain should oppose any calls from President Obama to shift troops to Afghanistan as they are pulled out of Iraq, the country's defense chief says, arguing that UK troops need a breather. “I have said for a very long time that the British armed forces are stretched,” Sir... More »

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Afghanistan • NATO • David Miliband • British troops • Britain • troop levels • Iraq exit strategy • NATO troops • President Obama • Jock Stirrup

 Congo's Crisis 
 at Breaking Point 

EU, African Union scramble to broker peace deal as Nkunda attacks

Nov 3, 08 7:27 AM CST
(Newser) - European and African officials held crisis talks last night to avert a complete meltdown in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the civil war risks degenerating into genocide. The diplomatic push came as Laurent Nkunda, the Tutsi general, led 10,000 rebels into battle in a province bordering Rwanda, which... More »

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David Miliband • civil war • Democratic Republic of Congo • humanitarian crisis • refugee • Rwanda • Tutsi • Laurent Nkunda

 Putin: US Sparked Georgia War

Part of plot to win votes for McCain, he claims

Aug 29, 08 4:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Invoking the era of Cold War conspiracies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of sparking conflict in Georgia to give John McCain a campaign boost. “They need a small victorious war,” the told CNN. He insisted the US encouraged Georgia to attack their two breakaway... More »

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Russia • John McCain • Vladimir Putin • State Department • Georgia • David Miliband • Dmitry Medvedev • George W. Bush • Abkhazia • South Ossetia • Shanghai Cooperation Organization

EU Threatens Sanctions
on Russia

Asian alliance, including China,  condemns aggression

Aug 28, 08 8:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The European Union is considering sanctions against the Great Bear over its incursion into Georgia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said today, as EU leaders head to an emergency summit. And a Russian plea for support from the East was strongly rebuffed by members of an Asian alliance that includes... More »

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Russia • European Union • sanctions • Georgia • David Miliband • economic sanctions • Bernard Kouchner • alliance • Shanghai Cooperation Organization

 West to Put Screws to Russia

New fury at Russia's formal recognition of breakaway states

Aug 27, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The West is preparing to crank up diplomatic pressure on Russia after its challenging move formally recognizing breakaway Ossetia and Abkhazia in the wake of its invasion of Georgia. The US, Europe and NATO have condemned the action, but Russia remains defiant. "We are not afraid of anything, including... More »

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Russia • NATO • Angela Merkel • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • David Miliband • Kremlin • Viktor Yushchenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Leaked Blair Memo Blasts Brown 'Vacuity'

Leadership challenge gains steam as ex-PM slams successor

Aug 4, 08 6:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gordon Brown took further lashed from his own party over the weekend as allies of Tony Blair leaked an old memo from the former prime minister bashing Brown's tenure. In the memo, written last year after Brown called off a mooted snap election, Blair accuses his successor of "hubris... More »

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Tony Blair • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • David Miliband • Labour Party • Britain • Blairites

Top Allies Look to Unseat Gordon Brown

Knives come out for battered PM as Labour ministers plan revolt

Jul 29, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Several of the leading members of Gordon Brown's government will try to oust him as prime minister, reports the Times of London. Two contenders have emerged in a possible leadership challenge: David Miliband, the youthful foreign secretary allied with Tony Blair; and Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour... More »

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United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Labour • UK politics • David Miliband • Labour Party • Harriet Harman

First British Woman Killed
in Afghanistan

Servicewoman dies
in bomb attack
on convoy

Jun 18, 08 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - An attack on a British military convoy in Afghanistan killed four troops, including the first British female soldier to die since the conflict began. The soldiers died in an explosion in Helmand province, Afghanistan's most volatile region, reports the Guardian. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband expressed his "deepest condolences"... More »

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Afghanistan • David Miliband • British military • female troops

Litvinenko Wife Defies Brits, Demands Inquiry

Poisoned spy's widow wants to expose Putin's role in his murder

Mar 27, 08 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Alexander Litvinenko's widow calls for a public inquiry into the poisoning of the Russian spy in an op-ed for today's Times of London. Both the British foreign secretary and Scotland Yard have sought to dissuade her from petitioning for an inquest, saying it would prejudge a criminal trial against chief... More »

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Russia • Alexander Litvinenko • United Kingdom • Vladimir Putin • David Miliband • Andrei Lugovoy • British-Russian relations • Marina Litvinenko

UK Questions Mount Over US 'Torture Flights'

Brits uncertain of extent that rendition flights utilized UK territory

Mar 10, 08 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid pressure British officials said yesterday that they were “working behind the scenes” to root out more information about the CIA rendition flights that landed on British soil, the Guardian reports. The UN’s special torture investigator has said there is credible evidence to suggest that the US... More »

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CIA • rendition • torture • Diego Garcia • David Miliband • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • Britain

CIA: Rendition Flights Landed in UK Territory

Brits apologize for earlier denials of ties
to terror cases

Feb 21, 08 2:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Two US flights carrying terror suspects for interrogation abroad—a practice known as extraordinary rendition—landed on British territory in 2002, confirmed CIA Director Michael Hayden today. Though the UK previously denied such landings, Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted planes refueled on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, reports... More »

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War on Terror • Tony Blair • CIA • rendition • Condoleezza Rice • Gordon Brown • Diego Garcia • David Miliband • Britain

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