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I'll be out of No 10 within weeks, says Blair By George Jones and Brendan Carlin Last Updated: 1:56am BST 02/05/2007 Tony Blair promised yesterday that he would stand down as Prime Minister "in the next few weeks". The announcement was a late attempt to avert a large protest vote against Labour in tomorrow's mid-term elections. Tony Blair will announce his resignation date next Wednesday or Thursday He is planning to announce next Wednesday or Thursday that he is resigning as Labour leader. The decision should see Gordon Brown succeed him in Downing Street by July 2. Mr Blair used...

LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be questioned by police within weeks as part of the investigation into alleged "cash for honours", the Daily Mail newspaper reports. The report comes after British media said that Ruth Turner, a senior aide in Blair's Downing Street office, was questioned as part of the same inquiry. Officers are probing claims that wealthy individuals were nominated for seats in the House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper chamber of parliament, after offering financial backing for the ruling Labour Party's 2005 general election campaign. The main opposition Conservatives and third party Liberal Democrats...

SAN LUIS — Military bulldozers, road graders and other heavy equipment rumbled along the Mexican border early Monday as more than 50 National Guardsmen from Utah became the first unit to get to work under President Bush’s crackdown on illegal immigration. The soldiers with the 116th Construction Support Equipment Company will hit their work sites by 5:30 a.m. during their two weeks of duty. They will improve a dirt road running parallel to the border, fill in gaps in fortified fencing and run wiring for new lighting to help the Border Patrol spot illegal crossers. “It’s exciting to do something...

Zimbabwe 'has two weeks' wheat' The price of bread rose by 30% in one week Zimbabwe has only two weeks of wheat supply left, while citizens are faced with soaring bread prices, Zimbabwe's main milling organisation has said.The cost of bread has risen by 30%, pushing Zimbabwe's inflation rate to more than 600%. Zimbabwe has been in economic decline since President Robert Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms in 2000. The government is reported to have put its security forces on alert in the rising discontent leads to protests. David Govere, deputy chairman of the Millers Association, told AFP news agency...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

WHO: World Will Be SARS-Free in 2-3 Weeks Fri Jun 27,11:06 AM ET By Dan Eaton BANGKOK (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said Friday the world should be free of the deadly SARS virus within the next two to three weeks, but warned the disease could emerge in China again next winter.David Heymann, director of the WHO's communicable diseases division, told Reuters he expected Taiwan and Toronto -- the only two areas still regarded as zones where the disease could be transmitted -- to be given a clean bill of health by the first week of July. "It appears...

Iraq 'has three weeks to avoid falling into chaos' By Patrick Cockburn 16 June 2003 Iraq needs a transitional administration within three weeks if it is to avoid a descent into chaos, the most prominent Iraqi leader acceptable to all sides told The Independent last night. Adnan Pachachi, a highly regarded former Iraqi foreign minister who is expected to play a big role in a transitional Iraqi administration, criticised the heavy-handed US sweeps that have cost more than 100 Iraqi lives, calling them "an overreaction''. He said the Americans felt "very vulnerable and afraid''. Mr Pachachi, 80, may be the...

In the 'analysis' on BET right after the Trent Lott interview, Rep. Gregory Meeks stated, "We will not tolerate those kinds of thoughts." He was referring to Lott's statement. If this isn't the quote of the night, I don't know what it is. This far exceeds anything Lott said. Rush, Sean, Brit, etc., rack this one up for major replay, please.

US forces ready to strike Iraq 'in weeks' By Toby Harnden and David Blair (Filed: 09/12/2002) American forces will be ready for war in the Gulf by next month, much earlier than many had predicted, Pentagon officials said yesterday. The disclosure came as Iraq challenged Britain and the US to prove that Saddam Hussein's regime still possesses weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's 43-volume declaration that it has no nuclear, chemical and biological weapons reached the United Nations headquarters in New York, but the White House maintained a stony silence over the denial. Gen Amer al-Saadi, Iraq's presidential adviser on armaments...

Mobilisation gathers pace as America lays down plans to strike within weeks Julian Borger in Washington and Richard Norton-Taylor Saturday November 9, 2002 The Guardian Even as the UN weapons inspectors pack their bags for a daunting and uncertain trip to Iraq later this month, the Pentagon is steadily building up its forces in the region and is expected to be ready for battle by as early as next month, military analysts said yesterday. The Bush administration is deeply sceptical of the UN inspectors' chances of disarming Saddam Hussein's regime and is convinced that a conflict is almost inevitable. The...