REYKJAVIK, Iceland — In a small, borrowed office a block from where he once led Iceland , Geir Haarde skips the small talk and gets right to the point. “This is not the kind of situation I want to be in,” says the 60-year-old former prime minister, dressed in a tidy gray suit and blue tie. “I am getting famous for all the wrong reasons.” Read full article > >

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Geir Haarde, Iceland’s ousted leader, awaits trial over role in financial crisis

French former prime minister and centre-right politician Dominique de Villepin announces he will stand for president in the 2012 election.

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Villepin to stand for president

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Libya for talks with Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2008 and 2009, his spokesman confiirms.

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Blair twice met Gaddafi for talks

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to be questioned for a second time by the Iraq inquiry examining the UK’s role in the 2003 war.

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Indictments are expected soon from an international tribunal, naming Hezbollah members in the assassination of a former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

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Hezbollah Vows Defense in Inquiry

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to be recalled to give evidence a second time to the Iraq Inquiry.

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Blair recalled for Iraq questions

A court in Pakistan issues arrest warrants for two senior police officers, on charges of negligence in their handling of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

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Pakistan police on Bhutto charges

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher is admitted to hospital in London for an infection to be treated.

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Lady Thatcher treated in hospital

Former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher is celebrating her 85th birthday.

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair describes Gordon Brown as “difficult, at times maddening” in his long-awaited memoirs, to be published on Wednesday.

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to donate the £4.6m advance and all royalties from his memoirs to a sports centre for badly injured soldiers.

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Blair gives book cash to charity