Beckett out as foreign secretary
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Margaret Beckett will not stay as foreign secretary under new Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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UK Home Secretary David Blunkett resigned over claims he helped speed up a visa application to his department by his former lover&#39;s Filipina nanny and remarks he made to a biographer about fellow ministers.
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British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett voiced deep sadness Saturday at Myanmar&#39;s extension of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s detention and called for all political prisoners to be released.
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Latvia dropped its controversial eurosceptic nominee to the European Commission on Tuesday, choosing a seasoned diplomat with European Union experience.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett Thursday visited the southern Afghan province of Helmand where thousands of British troops are deployed to fight the Taliban, a statement said.
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J. Cofer Black, the State Department official in charge of counterterrorism, is leaving government in the next few weeks.
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Former Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy is to take up the post again after Peter Hain's resignation
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Charles E. Williams, the controversial chief of the State Department's embassy-building program, announced his retirement yesterday, effective at the end of the month.
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David Miliband became British foreign secretary on Thursday, the youngest man to take on the job in thirty years, as new Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed his team.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett says it is time to reassess whether there should be a shift in policy in Iraq.
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The US ambassador to the UN is to leave his post when his temporary appointment runs out, officials say.
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LONDON (CP) - The European Union&#39;s political machinery was thrown into reverse on Wednesday as the new president of the European Commission backed down from a vote on his proposed cabinet over a controversial Italian commissioner.
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WASHINGTON (CP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, a moderate voice among cabinet hardliners who remained popular despite a global tide of anti-Americanism sparked by the Iraq war, is stepping down as the top US diplomat.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely viewed as the moderate in an administration dominated by hawks, announced Monday he will step down as America's chief diplomat once a successor is in place.
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The British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, has arrived in Kabul at the start of a visit to Afghanistan.
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Henry A. "Hank" Crumpton, the chief of the State Department's counterterrorism office and a key strategist in the war in Afghanistan, will announce today that he is leaving government in the new year, a senior State Department official said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON - In a surprise announcement, UN Ambassador John C. Danforth said Thursday that he is leaving the key diplomatic post he has held for just five months to return to life in St.