Britain’s Foreign Office minister Mark Malloch Brown says he is resigning for family reasons

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - Britains most popular tabloid newspaper Wednesday said it was backing the opposition Conservative Party at the next election, but Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted that it was the "people that decide elections. The newspaper, part of the News Corporation media empire owned by Rupert Murdoch, declared on its front page: "Labour's Lost It".

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has reportedly reprimanded Prime Minister Gordon Brown for handling the war in Afghanistan poorly, especially on the issue of equipment shortage for troops. Leading historian and journalist Andrew Roberts, who has close links with the Royal Family, said he had learned of the Queen's anger through a member of the Royal Family, a serving general and a recent Cabinet minister.

September 4th, 2009 Brown: British troops to remain in AfghanistanLONDON — Prime Minister Gordon Brown says British troops will remain in Afghanistan until the country's own security forces can fight the Taliban and al-Qaida without assistance. Brown says the British military will have succeeded when the Afghans can do the job of "denying the territory of Afghanistan as a base for terrorists." Brown is defending Britain's role in Afghanistan in the face of a rising death toll and mounting criticism.

September 3rd, 2009 Brown says UK troops will stay in AfghanistanLONDON — Britain's military will stay in Afghanistan until it can look after its own security, Prime Minister Gordon Brown says in a speech he plans to give Friday, dismissing a call from one of his government's defense aides to begin planning a pullout from the country. In a major speech on Afghanistan intended to shore up flagging support for the war and answer critics of his defense policy, Brown was due to tell Britons that "we cannot walk away." "People ask what success in Afghanistan would look like," Brown said in excerpts released to the media ahead of the speech.

August 28th, 2009 Brown calls Sen. Kennedy 'great internationalist'BOSTON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written that Sen.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A top terrorist leader whom Pakistan claimed to have killed 10 months ago was Monday shown chatting on news footage that the television channel said was shot just a few days ago. Sky News said Umer Khalid, also known as Abdul Wali, is alive and well and holding four Pakistani hostages belonging to the Frontier Constabulary security force.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A powerful group of British MPs expressed concern Sunday that elements within Pakistani Army and intelligence services do not share their civilian government's resolve to fight Islamic terrorists and continue to be fixated on India. The concern expressed by the British parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee was echoed by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, the minister of state for foreign affairs who quit his job last week citing personal and family reasons.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Britain would expel two Iranian diplomats after the Iranian government ordered two British diplomats to leave the country, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday. Brown told parliament that the allegations made against the two British diplomats were "absolutely without foundation".

June 5th, 2009 Brown: No plans of stepping down as British PMLONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is defying calls from some in his own party to resign, saying he will not walk away from his responsibilities. Brown reshuffled his Cabinet Friday in hopes of hanging on to his job in the midst of a scandal over lawmakers' expenses, a string of top-level resignations and catastrophic results expected in local elections.

April 17th, 2009 LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II enjoys more trust than any other public figure in Britain, according to a new survey. The YouGov poll, commissioned by insurance firm Hiscox, had carried the survey to find who do people trust most during the credit crunch.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - British Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown has warned leaders of the world's biggest economies yesterday to produce more than empty rhetoric at the crucial G20 summit in London next week. Plain speaking Brown is playing a key role in the negotiations ahead of the meeting, and said: "We can't again engage in meaningless, empty commitments which don't survive the flight home." According to The Independent, he said these leaders risked fuelling public dissent if they did not agree on action to tackle the recession.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to launch a new counter-terrorism strategy targeting Pakistan. The new strategy is designed to be the most comprehensive approach to tackling the threat issued by any Government in the world.

March 13th, 2009 TORONTO - Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon has cancelled his visit to India beginning Friday. Cannon was supposed to open the new Canadian trade office in Kolkata and meet Indian leaders, including External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi.

February 12th, 2009 LONDON - A leading member of the European Parliament says the situation in Sri Lanka is now so critical that the UN must send a peacekeeping mission to prevent a civilian massacre. Robert Evans, Chairman of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with South Asia, called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to send a peacekeeping mission as soon as possible.

January 20th, 2009 LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday sent messages of support to US President Barack Obama as parties were held across Britain to mark the handover of power in the US. The queen, 82, who has during her reign since 1952 met all US presidents with the exception of Lyndon B.