No 10 denies troop &#39;deal
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By Toby Helm, Jack Fairweather in Baghdad and David Rennie in Washington. Tony Blair&#39;s closest Cabinet allies yesterday rejected claims that he had struck a &quot;tawdry political deal&quot; to help George W Bush&#39;s election
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The refusal threatened to scuttle a nuclear agreement Iran reached 10 days ago with France, Britain and Germany.
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SYDNEY, Australia Australia&#39;s newly re-elected prime minister says he won&#39;t increase the number of his country&#39;s troops in Iraq.
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&#39;Just say no.&#39; That was the Guardian&#39;s considered advice to the UK government over the redeployment of British Black Watch troops from Basra to central Iraq to take the place of Americans who have to go off and fight insurgents.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's government on Monday rejected claims from opposition lawmakers that a redeployment of British troops in Iraq would be a political show of support for the Bush administration before U.S. presidential elections.
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Tony Blair admitted yesterday that British troops could be in the American-controlled area of Iraq for months, contradicting assurances from his Defence Secretary that
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Downing Street tonight refused to comment on mounting speculation that Tony Blair would be offered the job of envoy to the Middle East after stepping down from power next week.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday denied he planned to suddenly withdraw troops from Iraq, saying the idea was &quot;absurd&quot;.
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Â· PM committed troops despite chaos fears Â·  Bush 'offered to fight without UK'
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President Bush's choice for the new army chief of staff denies that current US policy on Iraq has failed.
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Downing St rejected Foreign Office calls to press the case for an end to Mid-East hostilities, the BBC learns.
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The British defence ministry denied that any decision had been taken to redeploy British troops in the south of Iraq to Baghdad to free US troops for other operations.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed a suggestion that a withdrawal by UK troops from their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra was a defeat, insisting it was an "organized" move.
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By Andrew Woodcock and James Lyons, Political Correspondents, PA News. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon is expected to tell MPs today that no decision has yet been made on whether to deploy British troops in the American-controlled sector of Iraq.
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British defence firm BAE denied news reports on Thursday that it had secretly paid a Saudi Arabian prince hundreds of millions of pounds in connection with Britain&#39;s biggest weapons deal.
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BRIGHTON, England - Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong.    In his speech to the Labour Party's annual conference Tuesday, Blair acknowledged that intelligence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons was wrong...
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British forces in southern Iraq deny rumours that they have released man-eating badgers into the local area.