Gordon Brown
Conservative David Cameron will be Britain's youngest PM in 200 years
May 11, 2010British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned, opening the door for Britain's first Conservative-led government in 13 years. Queen Elizabeth Tuesday appointed Conservative Party leader David Cameron as the new prime minister and asked him to form...
World leaders react to Polish president's death
April 10, 2010World leaders are reacting with sadness to the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, whose plane crashed in Russia early Saturday. U.S. President Barack Obama called the accident a devastating loss for Poland, the U.S. and the world. He said he contacted...
US President Obama Chairs UN Security Council Disarmament Summit
September 24, 2009U.S. President Barak Obama chaired a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, urging strides toward a world without nuclear weapons. The council unanimously approved a resolution expressing grave concern about...
Britain's PM condemned at EU meeting
December 14, 2007European diplomats condemned British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's late arrival in Portugal to sign an EU reform treaty as shunning the European bloc. Brown arrived more than three hours late to a signing ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal, in what many...
British PM announces shift in Afghanistan
December 13, 2007British Prime Minister Gordon Brown shifted policy on Afghanistan by backing plans to reintegrate some Taliban, curb poppy cultivation and support NATO forces. The prime minister told the House of Commons that British strategy would back plans to...
Brown seeks longer U.K. terror detentions
December 06, 2007British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced stiff opposition Thursday to his renewed call for extending terror detentions without charge from 28 to 42 days. Speaking to reporters in London, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith defended Brown's proposal, The...
British PM threatens Mugabe boycott
September 20, 2007British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is threatening to boycott an international summit if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is allowed to attend. The African Union and European Union are to meet in Lisbon, Portugal, in December,and Brown said...
Brown, Bush meet to build ties
July 30, 2007British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is in the United States for his first meeting with President Bush since taking office in late June. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports they are meeting in seclusion at Camp David - the mountain-top U.S. presidential retreat...