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British leader David Cameron faces dissent on EU membership
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron moved Monday to beat back a brewing rebellion within his Conservative Party over Britain's membership in the European Union, rejecting demands for a speedy public vote on exiting the trading bloc but insisting...
Tags: Government, United Kingdom, Labour Party (UK), European Union, Barack Obama
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Thatcher funeral to be at St. Paul's Cathedral
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is to be given a ceremonial funeral with military honors. The service will be held in St. Paul’s Cathedral, an honor reserved for great figures of state. One of Thatcher’s...Tags: Government, Labour Party (UK), United Kingdom, David Cameron, Politics
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies at 87
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain’s first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate...
Tags: Obituaries, Government, BBC, United Kingdom, David Cameron
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Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Britain's first female prime minister
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...
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Margaret Thatcher: In her own words
As education secretary in the 1970s, Margaret Thatcher said she did not think a woman would become British prime minister in her lifetime. She would occupy the job for nearly a dozen years, moving into 10 Downing St. in 1979. Thatcher died Monday at the...Tags: Government, BBC, United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, Politics
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Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello and the spectrum of sisterhood
While former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton considers the pros and cons of trying, once again, to become this nation's first female president and Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as the bumbling but pencil-skirt-rocking fictional vice president in...
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To cheers and jeers, Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest
LONDON -- A gun boomed once a minute, like one of her thunderous speeches in Parliament. Gray skies slowly turned blue, the color of her Conservative Party. And even Big Ben fell quiet, in tribute to a woman who loved nothing more than silencing her foes....
Tags: Elizabeth II, Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Metal and Mineral, Government
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Thousands gather for 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher's funeral
LONDON -- With stately solemnity and military honors, Margaret Thatcher's body was borne through the streets of the British capital Wednesday morning to a funeral service where hundreds of world leaders, colleagues and friends paid their last respects...
Tags: Pakistan, Elizabeth II, Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Government
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Goldberg: What 'the Iron Lady' forged
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile...
Tags: Culture, Tony Blair, United Kingdom, Arts and Culture, Bill Clinton
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Margaret Thatcher: The politician British pop music loved to hate
Margaret Thatcher, the so-called Iron Lady, was one of God's gifts to music. In the history of popular music, there probably never has been a head of state more reviled in song than the former Conservative Party British prime minister, who died today at...
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Margaret Thatcher is lionized and lambasted
LONDON — Indifference was not an option. In death as in life, at home and abroad, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lionized and lambasted — sometimes both in the same breath — as news of her passing Monday spread...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elizabeth II, Human Interest, Nick Clegg, Government
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British lawmakers pay tribute to Margaret Thatcher
LONDON -- British lawmakers interrupted their Easter vacation Wednesday to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at 87. At a special session of the House of Commons, Prime Minister David Cameron called Thatcher "an...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Human Interest, Tony Blair, Government
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