Blair Says Ready to Open Contact with Iraq Captors
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BRIGHTON, England/BAGHDAD  - British Prime  Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he was ready to open up  contact with captors of a British hostage in Iraq, shown on  video begging Blair to save his life.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce on Wednesday that British troops will start to withdraw from Iraq within weeks, British media said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair says his country and the United States will send a team to Iraq to reassess the security situation there.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops are arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad on Tuesday to meet Iraqi  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for Iraq's  elections scheduled for January.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that Britain had to hold firm in Iraq, including tosee it through in Fallujah.
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President Bush and British Prime  Minister Tony Blair on Thursday were due to discuss Iraq, a day  after its prime minister said Iraqi forces could take over  security by the end of 2007.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news network Al-Jazeera on Wednesday broadcast footage of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work for his release.    The footage showed a sobbing Bigley talking from behind bars of what appeared to be a prison cell...
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Britain will do all it can to help free five UK citizens kidnapped in Baghdad, Prime Minister Tony Blair says.
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Here is the full text of hostage Kenneth Bigley's video statement, posted on the Internet late Wednesday and appealing to Prime Minister Tony Blair to deal with his captors in Iraq:
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Britain is ready to help those hit by the Asian earthquake in any way it can, Tony Blair has said.
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The British government is ready to listen Ken Bigleyâs kidnappers but will not enter into negotiations with them for the hostageâs release, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said in Baghdad today.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday he hoped that international support for training Iraqi security forces would broaden at a NATO summit later this month.
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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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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi Tuesday amid uncertainty over the fate of a British hostage held by gunmen in Iraq.
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Baghdad - British hostage Ken Bigley has renewed his plea to Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers&#39; demands. The plea was made in a video clip broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV on Wednesday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British  troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops  are arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.