U.S. is Britain&#39;s number one ally: UK minister
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New British Foreign Secretary David  Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance  itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United  States was still Britain&#39;s number one ally.
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LONDON - The British government is &quot;very sympathetic&quot; to a US request for British troops in southern Iraq to be moved closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for anti-insurgency operations, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday.
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Strains in Britain&#39;s relations with the United States and Europe came under the spotlight ahead of a keynote speech by Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday.
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Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, appointed a trusted ally as finance minister on Thursday and promoted a rising star to the key post of foreign minister in a wide-ranging government shakeup.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his final address to his governing Labour Party, said Tuesday that being the United States' strongest ally can be difficult but it is crucial to stay close to Washington in the ...Comment
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Britain&#39;s new foreign minister insisted on the primacy of London&#39;s relationship with Washington on Thursday, following comments from other ministers suggesting a cooling of relations.
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WHEN Tony Blair says, as he did in the House of the Commons this week, that the United States is the only country able to deliver Britain&#39;s ambitions on the global stage, he means it.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary said on  Tuesday London was working with the United States to get as  much information on a "friendly fire" incident in which U.S.  warplanes in Iraq killed a British soldier in Iraq.
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Britain "fully supports" U.S. efforts to toughen U.N. Security Council sanctions against Sudan because of the situation in Darfur, a British official traveling with Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, seeking to repair ties between the United States and Europe, urged Washington yesterday to reach out to its allies and not depend on military force alone in the global fight against terrorism.
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Britain is holding talks with the United  States about participating in a U.S. plan for a missile defense  shield, the government said on Friday.
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A British minister suggested a shift in foreign policy away from the United States, telling an audience in Washington that a country's strength depended on making global alliances rather than military might.
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George W. Bush has learned from his  first term in office and will adopt a more "consensual" foreign  policy, his closest international ally, British Prime Minister  Tony Blair, said in an interview published on Thursday.
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The armed forces minister says UK troops are not "political playthings" who will be deployed to the advantage of the US.
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Britain stressed it was &quot;on the same page&quot; as Washington after the government announced its first large-scale troop withdrawal since the onset of the Iraq war, while the United States ramped up its presence there.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted it can be hard to be the strongest ally of US President George W. Bush, with whom he went to war in Iraq, as well as being a player in Europe.
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Britain's "special relationship" with the United States could be cooling, as a senior government official said that new Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Bush would not be "joined at the hip."