Tony Blair

Islamic State jihadists have released a video on Saturday, which they claim shows the beheading of a British aid worker, David Haines, who has been held hostage since his abduction last year.

By Paschos Mandravelis

A Hamas team arrived in Cairo on Aug. 3 for talks with Egyptian mediators on a possible truce in Gaza, an airport official and state news agency MENA said.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to launch a female-focused version of the Davos economic forum, as part of a wider push to boost the number of women in the workforce at home, he said in an interview published Tuesday.
      

Whatever else you may say about the “young war criminal” (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair), he certainly fights his corner with great determination. He is condemned to spend his life defending his part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and last weekend he was at it again.

Britain's Daily Mail newspaper reported on Monday that Serbian Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic is to offer veteran British politician Mandelson an advisory contract.

“He’s is one of the brightest guys I’ve ever met,” said Vucic, according to the Daily Mail.

BELGRADE - Tony Blair, the UK's former prime minister, will not be an advisor to either the Serbian government or Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and he will not receive any remuneration for his Thursday visit to Serbia, Belgrade-based daily Danas learnt at the prime minister's office.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has offered him assurances of his readiness to provide assistance to the Serbian government in the process of European integrations.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conferred in Belgrade on Thursday with former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tony Blair over the issue of Serbia's EU accession process.

I could not make up my mind: did he say this out of conviction or out of guilt wrapped up as faith? Whatever it was, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once again jumped in to raise some eyebrows among international observers with his latest statement relating to the present sectarian chaos in Iraq.