Republican Thompson to meet with Thatcher
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Republican Fred Thompson, an actor and former U.S. senator who has taken an early step toward a 2008 presidential bid, will deliver a foreign policy speech in London and meet with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher this week.
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Republican Fred Thompson says he will make his long-awaited entry into the 2008 presidential race next week.
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson took aim at Democrat Hillary Clinton on Thursday as he made a long-delayed entry into the Republican presidential race and immediately took good-natured jabs from rivals.
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The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, will meet reporters at 1 p.m. (1700 GMT) as he faces calls for his resignation over the handling of a sex scandal involving a fellow Republican Congressman who resigned.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Former Senator Fred Thompson, after months of flirting with a possible presidential run, will enter the 2008 Republican nomination contest next week with a Sept. 6 Internet announcement and five-day campaign tour through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his organization said today.
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Hollywood actor and former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson tentatively has decided to run for president and will begin raising money to gauge support, according to a long-time friend and political adviser.
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The request is from Equatorial Africa over alleged ties to a plot to oust the president. CAPE TOWN -- South Africa is considering a request by Equatorial Guinea to question Mark Thatcher about his alleged
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Gordon Brown is due in Belfast Monday morning for the first time since becoming prime minister to meet with his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern and the leaders of Britain&#39;s various devolved governments.
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Mark Thatcher is back in South Africa ahead of a court hearing next week when he is due to answer questions from Equatorial Guinea about an alleged coup plot in the oil-rich west African country, his lawyer said.
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Alex Salmond is to hold face-to-face talks with Gordon Brown for the first time since the two men took on their new roles.
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Lady Thatcher arrived home today as the furore continued over the arrest of her son Sir Mark in South Africa. The former Prime Minister refused to comment as she entered her central London home after flying in from the United States.
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The top Republican in the U.S. House of  Representatives, Dennis Hastert, will meet reporters at 1 p.m.  (1700 GMT) as he faces calls for his resignation over the  handling of a sex scandal involving a fellow Republican  Congressman who resigned.
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Thursday shrugged off harsh criticism from James Dobson, saying he has friends who likely know the influential Christian leader and they hold him in high regard.
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Former premier Margaret Thatcher returned to her old Downing Street stomping ground as she paid a surprise visit to current Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday.
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Actor-politician Fred  Thompson began an autumn scramble for the Republican  presidential nomination on Thursday, pushing Ronald Reagan-like  conservative themes and shrugging off concerns that he had  entered the race too late.
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Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern are to meet to consider ways of breaking the deadlock over guns and photos in Northern Ireland's political process.
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Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator and "Law &amp; Order" actor, is taking significant steps toward an expected summer entry into the crowded but extraordinarily unsettled Republican presidential race.