Tony Blair

Blair's spin doctor recounts "fascinating trip" to Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Alastair Campbell, known as former British PM Tony Blair's adviser and spin doctor, has written a blog post about his recent "fascinating" visit to Belgrade.

Former UK PM Tony Blair is to receive funding to advise Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, British media report.

Sixteen years back, Blair was among politicians at the spearhead of the NATO bombing campaigns carried out against Belgrade during the Kosovo War. Vucic himself was Minister of Information of former Yugoslavia at the time.

A parliamentary committee investigating possible British links to torture will request access to blacked out parts of a US Senate report on CIA treatment of Al-Qaeda suspects, its chairman said Dec. 14.
      

The West should cooperate with Russia in confronting Islamic extremism, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.

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Suspected extremists torched a West Bank mosque in an apparent revenge attack Nov. 12, as the Palestinian leader and the U.S. top diplomat were to meet Jordan's King Abdullah over the spiralling violence.

LONDON - A deal on the Smederevo steel mill is very close, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said after discussions with Esmark Inc. CEO Jim Bouchard in London.

A public invitation will be issued in seven or eight days, with a tender to follow in 35-40 days, Vucic told the RTS.

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.