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Brown sets out to rally support for his G20 goals

Brown sets out to rally support for his G20 goalsLondon - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday launched a diplomatic offensive to rally support for his plan to secure a co-ordinated world response to the global economic downturn at next week's G20 summit in London.

Brown's first stop will be at the European parliament in Strasbourg where he will give a speech praising the European Union's key contribution to the summit goal of forging a "new global deal," officials said.

No Europe-wide supervision of banks, says Gordon Brown

No Europe-wide supervision of banks, says Gordon Brown Paris - Despite errors by banks that provoked the global finance and economic crisis, authorities in individual nations must retain control of supervision of their banks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was quoted on Tuesday as saying.

"We are agreed with (having common regulations across Europe). But as for the individual supervision of banks, national authorities retain the supervision and I think it should remain like that," Brown said in an interview published in the French daily La Tribune.

''Saddened'' Prime Minister Gordon Brown pays tribute to Jade Goody

Jade GoodyLondon, March 23 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has paid tribute to Jade Goody, saying her death had left him "saddened".

The leader of the Labour Party paid his respects to the 27-year-old, who slipped away peacefully on March 22 in her sleep, while mum Jackiey Budden and hubby Jack Tweed held on to her hands.

The Brit reality star, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer last August, had planned her last weeks carefully before losing her battle with the disease on Mother's Day.

Gordon Brown’s moving Mother Day’s tribute to late mum

United KingdomLondon, Mar 22 : In an intensely personal Mother’s Day tribute, British PM Gordon Brown has spoken highly of his mum, who did secret work breaking German military codes during the Second World War.

The leader said he would spend the day thinking about his mother Jessie Elizabeth Brown, who died aged 86 in 2004, reports the Mirror.

Brown remembers his ‘no nonsense’ mother as a “ferociously intelligent woman, with a particular gift for maths.”

UK Tory leaders react angrily to exiled hate preacher’s Islamic rant

UK Tory leaders react angrily to exiled hate preacher’s Islamic rantLondon, Mar. 21 : Leaders of Britain''s Conservative (Tory) Party have expressed anger at the Gordon Brown Government for allowing exiled hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed to address an anti-West public meeting here.

The fundamentalist cleric came out of hiding to issue a chilling warning that Britain should prepare for a September 11,2001 style atrocity.

Brown and Sarkozy meet to discuss EU and G20 summits

Brown and Sarkozy meet to discuss EU and G20 summits Paris  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Thursday for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The discussion was to centre on the EU summit, which opens later Thursday in Brussels, and the meeting of the G20 nations scheduled to be held on April 2 in London.

According to a source in the British government, Brown and Sarkozy were to concentrate on several issues related to the global financial and economic crisis.

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