Report: Maverick UK Envoy to Tashkent May Lose Job
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Britain's ambassador to Uzbekistan, who has condemned his superiors for accepting security information gathered by torture, may be about to lose his job, British media reported Tuesday.
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Failure to disband the militia of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr could be storing up trouble for the future, Britainâs former envoy to Iraq warned today.
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Olympics is a massive event to manage. And Britain who is bidding for 2012 Olympics would appoint a cabinet minister just to look after the Olympics preparation.
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Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, pulled out of Tashkent for &quot;operational reasons,&quot; said he is a &quot;victim of conscience&quot; for having dared to speak out against human rights outrages.
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The U.S. envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, is helping to persuade Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai's rivals to drop a threat not to recognize the result.
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The British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, could be facing the sack for his outspoken criticism of the regime in Tashkent which he accuses of widespread torture of opponents, a British newspaper said.
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A British ambassador removed from his post after he criticized Uzbekistan's human rights record said Friday he planned to take legal action against the government over damage to his health.
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JERUSALEM -- Western powers struggled yesterday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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The head of Russia's biggest opposition party is considering dropping out of the race against Kremlin front-runner Dmitry Medvedev to be the next president, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair spent his last full day in office Tuesday facing growing speculation that he will be named as an envoy to the Middle East.
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Pakistan summoned the British ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday, officials from both sides said, amid mounting anger at the award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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London - Britain has withdrawn its ambassador to Uzbekistan after he made renewed allegations about the use of information obtained under torture in the country, which lies to the north of Afghanistan.
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Territory in Afghanistan taken in battles by UK troops may be re-taken by the Taleban, the Nato commander warns.
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Britainâs former ambassador to Uzbekistan today accused the Foreign Office of trying to âfit him upâ for speaking out about torture in the former Soviet republic.
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There are many question marks about what the former British prime minister can achieve as special envoy.
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Middle East power brokers should appoint a special envoy to lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state, Washington said, amid reports Thursday that Prime Minister Tony Blair will take up the job after he retires this month.
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Talks on re-opening British Council offices cannot start until visa and terror rows are settled, says Russia's UK ambassador.