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Gordon Brown: a survivor fighting to avoid defeat (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown meets local residents during a visit to Dulwich and West Norwood in London Sunday, May 2, 2010.   Britain goes to the polls in a general election May 6.     (AP Photo/ Dan Kitwood, PA ) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT  **AP - Gordon Brown has never made politics look easy, and Britain’s hard-fought election campaign has been a grueling trial for the incumbent prime minister.


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UK to send warships to get stranded Britons (AP)

April 19th, 2010

The volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier sends ash into the air  Saturday, April 17, 2010.  The Icelandic volcano that has kept much of Europe land-bound is far from finished spitting out its grit, and offered up new mini-eruptions Saturday that raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade.  (AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Britain is sending Royal Navy warships to rescue Britons stranded by the volcanic ash cloud.


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UK’s Brown announces May 6 election date (AP)

April 6th, 2010

Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron arrives at the Teenage Cancer trust unit at University College Hospital in London, Monday April 5, 2010. A day before he is expected to announced a national election, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday April 5, 2010 that only his Labour Party can be trusted to nurture Britain's fragile economic recovery. (AP Photo/Richard Pohle)AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has publicly set a national election for May 6 — a historic vote considered one of Britain’s least predictable in decades.


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