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Outgoing prime minister Tony Blair has made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad for talks with the country’s president and prime minister. Mr Blair arrived in the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone to speak with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani and prime minister Nuri al-Maliki about the ongoing sectarian violence in the troubled… Read more »
The foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has pledged more aid for Iraq, in an attempt to stabilise the increasingly violent country. Speaking at the launch of the International Compact with Iraq in Egypt, Ms Beckett committed the UK to an additional £100 million for reconstruction in Iraq. Total UK aid for humanitarian relief and reconstruction in… Read more »