Global Security (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the costly, lengthy fight in Afghanistan must go on, but he says he hopes security responsibilities can start to be handed over to local Afghans beginning next year.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was on Tuesday embroiled in a row with the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, after he telephoned her to apologise for a handwritten letter of condolence. Brown's office said earlier that he was "mortified" to think he had caused offence with the letter which Jacqui Janes called a "hastily scrawled insult." The ...
CNN (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was under mounting criticism on Tuesday over his perceived casual attitude towards soldiers killed in Afghanistan as support for the mission collapses.
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | yesterday
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown drew cautious support on Monday for his latest crusade to introduce a so-called “Tobin” tax on big financial transactions. “There was some curiosity about Gordon Brown’s proposals surrounding a financial levy” pushed at the G20 meeting in St Andrews, said Joaquin Almunia, European financial commissioner. He was speaking...
Bitch News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
CNN reports here: St. Andrews, Scotland – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a meeting of G-20 ministers in his home region in Scotland Saturday that the public must be protected from the failure of the banking system in future. Do It Now:
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown surprised G20 finance ministers by urging them to consider a tax on global financial transactions, but the idea got a lukewarm response. Brown said Saturday such a levy, often called the Tobin Tax after the US economist who devised it, would force financial institutions to be more responsible and was one [...]
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined other world leaders in taking up jogging as part of a new exercise regime.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants "a better economic and social contract" to reflect the global responsibilities of financial institutions to society. Brown told the ongoing G20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor Meeting here four principles should be followed "when considering the proposals for an insurance fee to reflect systemic risk or a resolution fund...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In a speech to G20 finance ministers, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocates a global tax on financial transactions to fund future bank bailouts.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on G20 countries to stick to the stimulus that has helped stabilize the global economy this year to underpin recovery. He was addressing the ongoing G20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor Meeting here on Saturday. Brown said in his speech that a self-sustaining global recovery was hanging in the balance, and the future was not yet...
ABC 7 News - Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another crisis. from ABC 7 News
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday the Ministry of Defence said bringing to 95 the number of UK service personnel who have died in Afghanistan this year.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for serious consideration of a levy on financial activity to help insure the banking system from another crisis.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Afghanistan's government on Friday to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In a major speech on Afghanistan, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday that Britain "cannot, must not, and will not walk away" from its mission there.
