Blair prepares to convert to Catholicism
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Outgoing PM will travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - A high-stakes effort to revive a Catholic-Protestant government for Northern Ireland has ended in failure, British Prime Minister Tony Blair conceded Saturday. Negotiators have ``not yet achieved a comprehensive agreement,'' Blair said, speaking at the end of a three-day diplomatic push to revive the Good Friday peace accord of 1998
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The former prime minister has converted to Roman Catholicism, sources close to him said today
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair passed on tips gleaned from his experience brokering an uneasy peace in Northern Ireland as he backed Spain's current drive for peace in its troubled Basque country.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is preparing for a gruelling trip to Africa just days after undergoing heart treatment.
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Tony Blair yesterday used his last official foreign engagement before leaving office to tell Pope Benedict he wanted to become a Roman Catholic, a Vatican source said last night.
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The British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, published a detailed plan Wednesday for reviving a Catholic-Protestant administration in Northern Ireland - a peace-building project still on hold because of unsolved arguments about IRA
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Prime Minister Tony Blair reported to parliament on last week's EU summit, saying the decision to start accession talks with Turkey in 2005 is proof that Christians and Muslims can work together.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair faced a showdown Wednesday with Ian Paisley over whether Northern Ireland's hard-line Protestant leader will share power with the Catholics of Sinn Fein by a deadline of March 26.Comment
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Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland were to visit Belfast amid fading hopes of a breakthrough to restore Catholic-Protestant power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair looked   set to bow to intense pressure from disgruntled loyalists on   Thursday and lay out a timetable for his departure within a   year after almost a decade in office.
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As Tony Blair prepares to leave office, his former spin-master is set to reveal the &quot;warts and all&quot; truth about life in Downing Street under the famously image-conscious British premier.
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The Vatican on Saturday bid farewell to Tony Blair as British prime minister, wishing him well on what it said were his plans to work for Middle East peace and interreligious dialogue.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to canonise a new saint for Ireland in a ceremony at St Peter's Square on Sunday.
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Former prime minister Tony Blair's  conversion to Catholicism means he is now a member of the most  popular Christian denomination in Britain, according to  religious research published on Sunday.
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TONY BLAIR was today set to urge unionists and republicans to do the deal to transform Northern Irelandâs deadlocked peace process.
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Britain&#39;s outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie arrived at the Vatican on Saturday for a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI.