Blair delays vacation to work on Mideast
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed his summer vacation Friday to stay in London and help develop a U.N. resolution on the Middle East crisis.
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Prime Minister Paul Martin has delayed his European tour so he can be in Halifax tomorrow when the body of Lieut. Chris Saunders arrives back in Canada.
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Prime Minister, Tony Blair is flying to Washington this week for talks with President George W Bush. The Middle East peace process is likely to be high on the agenda following Mr Bush&#39;s victory in the US presidential election.
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London:After a weekend's rest in the English countryside after a minor heart operation, Prime Minister Tony Blair was preparing to return to work yesterday amid fevered speculation about his future as leader of ...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss his personal peace initiatives for the region, the next leg on a flying visit which took him to Iraq the previous day.
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Tony Blairâs visit to Israel comes amid renewed international hopes of lasting peace with Palestine. Mr Blair sees resolution of the conflict as the route to long-term stability in the wider Middle East.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Ankara ahead of a Middle East tour aimed at advancing the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process and discussing Turkey's EU ambitions.
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Tony Blair is pushing for a broader  mandate in the Middle East that would give him a more direct  role in peacemaking, expanding the limited envoy job that world  powers gave him last month, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Former British PM Tony Blair kicked off his first visit to the Middle East as the international community&#39;s new envoy to the region, hoping to add momentum to fledgling peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. During the 2-day visit, Blair planned to meet with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other top officials.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East peace quest was severely jolted when his counterpart in the West Bank took umbrage at suggestions that the Palestinians needed to be groomed for statehood.
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The Middle East crisis dominated the first full day of Prime Minister Tony Blair's tour of California, forcing his promotion of British business interests here to take a back seat.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has put off a planned visit to Egypt this week because it would have coincided with the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, officials said here.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair hopes to inject momentum into the stalled Middle East peace process when he meets President Bush in Washington later this week, but he is not expecting an immediate new initiative, officials said Monday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  call on Wednesday for Middle East states to rein in what he  calls the threat from Iran and to help advance peacemaking  between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s office remained tight-lipped Monday over growing speculation that he will be named as an international envoy to the Middle East after he leaves office this week.
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Tony Blair is set to visit the Middle East today to help moves towards a new peace process.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Lebanon on Monday as part of a Middle East tour to discuss the UN-brokered truce between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, an official has said.