Tony Blair toured a Palestinian aluminum factory Thursday and was told it runs at one-third capacity because of Israeli import restrictions. He promised he’ll take it up with Israeli authorities.
Mideast envoy Tony Blair is urging the Israelis and Palestinians to use the cease-fire that took effect June 19 as an opportunity to try to reach a peace agreement.The former British prime minister says a two-state solution is the only way to solve the...
Mideast envoy Tony Blair on Tuesday called off what would have been the first visit of a top Western diplomat to Hamas-ruled Gaza, after Israel’s Shin Bet security service said he might come under attack there.The Shin Bet security service said it had...
Mideast envoy Tony Blair on Tuesday called off what would have been the first visit of a top Western diplomat to Hamas-ruled Gaza, citing a “specific security threat.”The former British prime minister’s visit Tuesday was to have included a tour of a...
A spokeswoman for Mideast envoy Tony Blair says threats against the former British prime minister have caused him to cancel a planned trip to the Gaza Strip.Ruti Winterstein said Tuesday that “specific threats” were made against Blair. She did not give...
Mideast envoy Tony Blair will visit the Gaza Strip this week, a Hamas spokesman said Monday, the former British prime minister’s first trip to the coastal territory since Hamas seized control violently a year ago.Blair is expected to meet traders and...
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday that U.S. President George W. Bush still has time to broker a peace deal in the Middle East.Blair, who served as British leader for 10 years from 1997, is scheduled to give evidence on the Middle East peace...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says that religion is a key force in the 21st century that cannot be ignored.He made the comments Friday while introducing the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, a group that will aim to educate people worldwide about...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Yale University graduates on Sunday that partnerships were key to avoid conflict in a global economy as countries such as China and India become more powerful.Blair, the Class Day speaker, said that for the...
Israeli fighter jets scrambled to intercept an unidentified aircraft suspected to be hostile this week, only to find that it carried none other than Tony Blair, a top military official said Friday.Blair, the International Mideast peace envoy, was on a...
Tony Blair in his new role as the peace envoy to Palestine is set to get a formal briefing by the Middle East Quartet comprising the US, Russia, the UN and the European Union at Lisbon. The meeting assumed considerable importance on the wake of a...
Shattering all the plans and dreams of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a Middle East envoy, America yesterday confined his powers to arbitrate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Now, Blair will only be restricted to...
The global ‘war on terror’ may have stuck somewhere in the Asian region between Afghanistan and Iraq and has largely failed to mark its scheduled wider aims or global impact, since it was launched by the US and allied forces in 2001 in Afghanistan...
The 15 Royal Navy crew held captive by Iran are preparing to fly home after being freed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a ‘gift’ to the UK. Usually with this type of diplomatic poker game, it is often the case that he who blinks first loses but...
The government in Khartoum is using its air force to bomb its own civilians and to re-supply its troops and allied militias killing its own people.
What should be done?
How about a no-fly zone over Darfur?
This is what Tony Blair...
Iran is undoubtedly in a perfect storm after seizing 15 British sailors and options are somewhat limited if Iran does not respond but to fight Iran would not be clever enough. This is the reason why the British government is preparing to turn...
Here is Blair again- a man of the troops, if not of the people. An extra battle group of up to 1,500 British troops is to be sent to Afghanistan to take on the Taliban over the next few months. The renewed focus on Afghanistan may be too little and too...
Iran strongly condemned the statement made by British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday. Blair has called the world powers to make an alliance of Muslim countries against Iran.
The Tehran has termed this statement as hostile and has blamed...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates himself said that the U.S. was not winning in Iraq, a few days back, a statement with which everyone agreed except the White House. And immediately the question arises: what will be the U.S. government’s response to...
It is the dramatic experience that Mr. Blair is facing. The UK’s Army Chief Sir Richard is ordering his army to windrow from Iraq, because he might be forcasting the risks of serving in Iraq. Presently Iraqi community is direction less and is unable to...
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Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store, left, and former British Prime Minister and official Envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East Tony Blair, speak to the press after their meeting at Losby Gods north of Oslo Friday 18. July 2008.
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