Revealed: Blair's talks with Murdoch on eve of war
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Media & professional: Tony Blair spoke to Rupert Murdoch three times in 10 days in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
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The family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on Thursday it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.  to discuss News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones.
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"It was not entirely clear whether it was deliberate... i.e. a warning shot that they could and would do it without us... or a f***-up. We all assumed the latter"  British prime minister Tony Blair overrode cabinet colleagues who had doubts about going to war against Iraq, his former press chief revealed in diaries published today. via The West Australian
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's government is to hold a parliamentary debate on Britain's involvement in Iraq by the end of January, parliament leader Jack Straw has said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was hosting talks with Iraqi counterpart Iyad Allawi against the backdrop of the kidnapping of a British engineer in Baghdad.
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Ex prime minister Tony Blair&#39;s press chief lifted the lid Sunday on issues including his boss&#39;s plan to quit before the Iraq war, hours ahead of publication of his hotly-anticipated diaries.
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TONY Blair today faced a revolt by Labour MPs over plans to send British troops into danger zones in Iraq. The prime minister was expecting a grilling at Commons question time this afternoon, with 45 Labour
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The following roundup covers material available to BBC Monitoring up to 2359 on Thursday 7 December 2006.  IRAQI TV  Al-Iraqiyah TV reported that Iraq had been the focus of talks between Bush and Blair. The report highlighted excerpts from their joint press conference.
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Description: Britain&#39;s Prime Minister Tony Blair faces criticism within his Labor Party over his support for the war in Iraq. At Labor&#39;s annual conference in Brighton, opponents of the war have forced the
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Dow board takes over talks with Murdoch, implying a resolution to his $5B bid will come soon.
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The second Iraq war, between coalition forces and insurgents, is now under way in what has become the &quot;crucible&quot; of the global war on terrorism, Tony Blair declared yesterday
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PRESIDENT CHIRAC of France will hold talks with Tony Blair today after declaring last night that the Iraq war had made the world more dangerous.
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Media & professional: Family controlling Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones to meet Rupert Murdoch to discuss his $5bn takeover bid.
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British prime minister Tony Blair held talks Tuesday with Iraq's interim prime minister Ayad Allawi, during a surprise visit to Iraq that comes ahead of national elections and amid a fierce insurgency.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair went into his weekly Commons showdown facing fresh unrest among Labour MPs over Iraq. Mr Blair was pressed over the request for soldiers to be sent into US-controlled hotspots at Prime Minister&#39;s Questions.
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SYDNEY - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch said in a Thursday newspaper interview he would take a second stab at uprooting his News Corp Ltd empire from Australia to the United States if investors block the deal first time around.
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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  Media mogul Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that talks are heating up with Liberty Media Corp. over how to unwind Liberty's stake in News Corp.   "We are in more active negotiations than before," the News Corp.