Topic: Gordon Brown

Govt to send 500 extra troops to Afghanistan

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Wednesday it was sending an extra 500 soldiers to Afghanistan, as US President Barack Obama huddled with his war cabinet to decide whether to deploy thousands more US troops.Pledging more forces, Brown urged NATO allies to do ...

Obama disappointed in release of Lockerbie bomber

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama expressed his disappointment to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday at Scotland's release of a Libyan prisoner convicted in the Lockerbie bombing, the White House said.Obama and Brown spoke by telephone to discuss preparations for ...

Editorial Roundup

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: It also has a duty to make sure the nation's veterans get the best care and service the federal government can deliver.Those obligations require Congress to take a look at ...
Britain's Brown says 'economic hurricane' has swept the world, warns against US protectionismBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday called on Americans to look up from their own tumbling financial markets to see a world gripped by an " It came as ...
British prime minister hopes to forge global economic pact during talks with President ObamaBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he will try to forge a global pact to buck the global economic downturn during talks with U.S. President Barack Obama next ...
British PM Brown to address Congress next weekBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be the first foreign leader this year to speak before a joint meeting of Congress.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Gordon will deliver a speech to House and Senate members ...

PM to address US Congress March 4

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will deliver a speech to a joint session of the US Congress on March 4, House Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced Tuesday. "Next week, prime minister Brown will address a joint session of Congress, on Wednesday," Hoyer ...

I have seen your future, America, and it doesn't work

No matter how excited you may be about Barack Obama's inauguration on Tuesday, I bet you're not as pleased as I am. The first was that Harry wanted the book delivered in a month and the second was that, it being published ...
London will host second G-20 summit on the financial crisis in AprilBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that London will host an April meeting of the Group of 20 industrialized and emerging economies on the financial crisis.Brown told lawmakers that U.S. ...
//www.guardian.co.uk/politics/davidcameron">David Cameron today said a Tory government would offer companies a & "Instead of paying for benefits we would rather take those people off the unemployment register and use it to get people into work," Cameron told the BBC Radio 4's Today ...
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