Read more prime minister stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11271/prime-minister.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:16:44 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74427/belgian-named-eu-prez-after-blair-bid-fails.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTony Blair won't be the first president of the European Council. The job went to Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy today after British PM Gordon Brown withdrew Blair's nomination when it became clear he didn't have enough support. Blair tells the Guardian he isn’t surprised, because the “direction of travel”...http://www.newser.com/story/74427/belgian-named-eu-prez-after-blair-bid-fails.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 13:15:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71228/berlusconi-im-not-going-anywhere.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSilvio Berlusconi, fighting for his political life after a court ruled he was not immune from criminal prosecution, called the ruling politically motivated and vowed to stay on as Italy's prime minister. Already weakened by sex scandals, Berlusconi will now face at least two trials, one concerning witness tampering and...http://www.newser.com/story/71228/berlusconi-im-not-going-anywhere.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 8:08:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70738/brown-labour-fuming-after-murdoch-backs-conservatives.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGordon Brown is livid and his colleagues in the Labour Party are ripping up copies of the Sun in public after Rupert Murdoch ended 12 years of support and backed Conservative David Cameron this week. “We don't need an Australian-American coming to our country with a paper that has never...http://www.newser.com/story/70738/brown-labour-fuming-after-murdoch-backs-conservatives.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 01 Oct 2009 11:28:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69089/obama-to-brown-lockerbie-release-a-disappointment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama today brought his displeasure over the release of the Lockerbie bomber directly to Gordon Brown’s attention, the BBC reports. Obama did not specifically blame Brown, but relatives of those who died are outraged at the release, and the president has called it a “mistake.” The UK PM maintains...http://www.newser.com/story/69089/obama-to-brown-lockerbie-release-a-disappointment.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 16:04:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68356/brown-didnt-want-lockerbie-bomber-to-die-in-prison.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMore Lockerbie troubles for Gordon Brown. Newly released documents suggest the UK prime minister didn't want Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi to die in a Scottish prison, the London Times reports. The development will further fuel speculation that Britain tacitly led the push for Megrahi's release in exchange for a...http://www.newser.com/story/68356/brown-didnt-want-lockerbie-bomber-to-die-in-prison.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 17:32:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68030/berlusconi-slaps-european-papers-with-libel-suits.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSilvio Berlusconi is suing Italian and foreign media outlets for libel regarding his personal life, Reuters reports. “We have instructed our colleagues to evaluate, according to the laws in their countries, the most serious cases of real, true defamation,” said the Italian PM's lawyer. Berlusconi’s legal team has already filed...http://www.newser.com/story/68030/berlusconi-slaps-european-papers-with-libel-suits.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 10:27:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66540/berlusconi-why-the-sex-scandals-dont-hurt-him.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBesieged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “a national joke,” Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair . He’s also immensely popular. In the midst of his most recent sex scandal, he and his party were handily reelected. What’s the deal? To begin with, “he controls his country’s dominant political party, its...http://www.newser.com/story/66540/berlusconi-why-the-sex-scandals-dont-hurt-him.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 15:19:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66097/putin-trip-is-tough-guy-photo-op.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVladimir Putin spent his vacation in southern Siberia swimming, climbing trees, and riding a horse bareback—all while shirtless. Though state news agencies portrayed the Russian prime minister’s trip as a vacation, the series of tough-guy photographs that emerged make it hard not to think he had a motive beyond...http://www.newser.com/story/66097/putin-trip-is-tough-guy-photo-op.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 16:42:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65053/iraq-pullout-on-target-obama-maliki.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama met with Nouri al-Maliki today and vowed to keep to his timetable that has all US forces out of Iraq by 2011, the Washington Post reports. The Iraqi prime minister said that his country’s security forces are now “highly capable” of handling the threat posed by insurgents—what...http://www.newser.com/story/65053/iraq-pullout-on-target-obama-maliki.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 16:41:49 CDT