UK's Blair defies critics over departure date
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged  an end to speculation about when he will leave office and asked  to be allowed to get on with his job in an interview published  on Friday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that he will leave office within 12 months, in a statement aimed at quelling an increasingly damaging row within his Labour government.
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Blair: 'No sovereignty doubts'; Tsunami Appeal; Canadian delegation to visit; No next of kin on the way.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has claimed to have defused a potential row with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf over claims that his country's intelligence services are backing Islamist extremism.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair shrugged off criticism of his close alliance with US President George W. Bush ahead of a visit to Washington, calling such links &quot;part of the job&quot;.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair denied  that he offered to resign before the next election as media  reports about a rift with his finance minister Gordon Brown  intensified Sunday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair defended an extradition treaty with the United States shortly before lawmakers began an emergency debate on the issue Wednesday, as three British bankers prepared to be sent to Texas to face Enron-related fraud charges.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended himself against criticism of a decision to stop a probe into a British weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, saying he was promoting national strategic interests.
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LONDON, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s government has dismissed opposition claims that a redeployment of British troops in Iraq would be a &quot;political gesture&quot; to the White House ahead of next month&#39;s US presidential election.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair took a swipe at critics of the British military mission in Afghanistan, five years on from the start of operations to oust the Taliban regime from power there.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there was no rift in his Cabinet over his government's handling of the conflict in Lebanon, and a British lawmaker publicly backed him on Sunday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair called   for an end to speculation about when he will leave office,   sparking renewed calls on Friday for a departure timetable from   critics within his party.
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Tony Blair on Monday strongly defended intervening in Iraq for the final time as prime minister before parliament&#39;s top scrutiny body.
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The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has avoided a damaging blow at Labour&#39;s annual conference when a motion urging him to set an early date for the withdrawal of British forces from Iraq was defeated.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to resign over a &quot;cash-for-honours&quot; police probe despite growing pressure and fears within his Labour Party about its political fallout.
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair angrily denied allegations from his political foes yesterday that he "misrepresented" intelligence in making the case to join the US-led invasion of Iraq last year.
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LONDON Tony Blair denies he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war and is rejecting demands to apologize. The British prime minister tells the House of Commons he can&#39;t say he misrepresented