Iraq PM discusses hostages with Brown
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki held talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday, notably discussing the plight of five Britons seized in Baghdad last year, Brown's office said.
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LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair is talking security with his counterpart from Iraq.
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Britain's next prime minister, Gordon Brown, assured Iraq's leaders on Monday of continued British support as he made a flying visit to Baghdad to "listen and learn" before he takes office later this month.
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Tony Blair is to hold his first talks with Iraq's interim prime minister Iyad Allawi at Downing Street.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks with Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday, and described the violence in the runup Iraqi national elections as a "battle between democracy and terror."
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Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers  holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to  negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, Foreign Secretary  Jack Straw said on Thursday.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain's Tony Blair appealed  Thursday to kidnappers holding a hostage in Iraq to make  contact -- but ruled out doing deals as domestic divisions over  the war continued to dog the prime minister.
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AN Iraqi cleric has said he met British hostage Ken Bigley, who is being held in Baghdad.
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There may be some movement in the case of British hostage Ken Bigley, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday met with the top US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the ambassador to Baghdad and was briefed about the security situation there.
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The family of a British man being held hostage in Iraq has pleaded with the prime minister to meet the captors demands and save the hostage s life.
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A British man held hostage in Iraq appeared in a video on Wednesday, chained and distraught, pleading with Prime Minister Tony Blair to save his life by meeting his captors' demands to release Iraqi women from jail.
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Gordon Brown is set to hold talks with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown,   who is expected to be the next prime minister, sought in an   interview to smooth over rifts in the country's ruling party   after a damaging row over when Tony Blair should quit.
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Britain's Ministry of Defense said Friday that it was discussing coalition troop deployments in Iraq with the country's interim government and U.S. officials.
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Britain is ready to listen to kidnappers holding a British hostage in Iraq but is not prepared to negotiate with them or pay them a ransom, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown,  who is expected to be the next prime minister, sought in an  interview to smooth over rifts in the country's ruling party  after a damaging row over when Tony Blair should quit.