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World Leaders Mourn 'Bulldozer' Richard Holbrooke

(Dec. 14) -- World leaders are paying tribute today to the man they nicknamed the "Bulldozer" -- Richard Holbrooke, the longtime U.S. diplomat who served in Vietnam and wrote a chapter of the Pentagon Papers, negotiated an end to the Bosnian war and most recently served as White House envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He...

Britain's Labour Vote Pits Brother Against Brother

LONDON (Sept. 4) -- Just a few months ago, many Brits struggled to tell David Miliband, 44, apart from his 40-year-old brother Ed. It was an understandable mistake: The siblings both held senior posts in former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's cabinet, and -- with their boyish looks, awkward smiles and mops of dark hair --...

Environmentalists Slam Proposed Marine Sanctuary

(Feb. 17) -- A plan to protect a pristine coral reef system located in one of the last remnants of Britain's colonial empire has encountered an unlikely opponent: environmentalists. The proposed sanctuary would span the majority of the Chagos Archipelago, a series of atolls approximately twice the size of Britain located...

UK Court Publishes Details of Alleged CIA Torture

LONDON (Feb. 10) – A London court on Wednesday ordered the British government to disclose confidential U.S. intelligence showing that a British resident and former Guantanamo Bay inmate suffered "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" while in American custody. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband had previously...

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David Miliband: Afghanistan Could 'Explode' Without Political Solutions

With early troop removals by key contributors to the war in Afghanistan, military factors have dominated war news over the past few weeks.

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06/01/12 Taking the lead in benefits fight Source: Shields Gazette A BLIND man from South Tyneside who is taking a leading role against benefit reforms is to addressing a major conference on the issue today.
05/30/12 Miliband gets his man at the Mirror Source: New Statesman You may not be familiar with the name Lloyd Embley, but he will soon be one of the most powerful newspaper editors in the country.
05/27/12 Afghanistan: Is there a political solution? Source: Aljazeera.com In the the last of the two special compilation programmes, this episode of Frost Over the World focuses on leading figures from the world of politics to that of entertainment and sports.
05/23/12 Tom Watson: Blair and Brown should come clean over the... Source: Telegraph - London - UK Watson criticised some of his senior colleagues for getting involved with the Sun on Sunday so quickly after it was set up to replace the NoW. Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper and David Miliband have all contributed to the new title.
05/22/12 Environmental Campaigns Interfere with Chagossian... Source: Softpedia News In 2008, the foreign secretary of Britain, David Miliband, fought with all his main and might for creating a marine reserve around Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and currently a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Background on david miliband

David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband.

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