MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David
Cameron called for better business ties with Russia on Monday
before talks with Russian leaders intended to improve relations
soured by the murder of a Kremlin critic in London five years
ago.

Cameron will meet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and
President Dmitry Medvedev on a visit to Moscow lasting less than
24 hours.

MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David
Cameron holds landmark talks with Russian leaders on Monday,
aiming to strengthen business and political ties with Moscow
despite a long-running dispute over the murder of a Kremlin
critic in London five years ago.

Cameron is due to meet President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia’s most powerful man, during a
visit of less than 24 hours to Moscow — the first by a British
leader since former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in
London from poisoning by radioactive polonium-210 in 2006.

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Russia accused Britain on Friday
of failing to cooperate in solving the 2006 murder of a Kremlin
critic in London, a sign the issue is still raw days before
David Cameron makes the first trip to Russia by a British prime
minister since the killing.

Britain’s relations with Russia have been sour since the
murder five years ago of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian
spy who died from poisoning by radioactive polonium-210.

LONDON (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has no regrets about helping bring former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in from the cold in 2004 and that Gaddafi’s mistake was his failure to carry out reforms at home.

Blair, now a Middle East envoy, reflected on his relationship with Gaddafi during an interview with Reuters Insider marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 al Qaeda attacks on U.S. cities.

LONDON (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has no regrets about helping bring former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in from the cold in 2004 and that Gaddafi’s mistake was his failure to carry out reforms at home.

Blair, now a Middle East envoy, reflected on his relationship with Gaddafi during an interview with Reuters Insider marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 al Qaeda attacks on U.S. cities.

LONDON (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says he has no regrets about helping bring former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in from the cold in 2004 and that Gaddafi’s mistake was his failure to carry out reforms at home.

Blair, now a Middle East envoy, reflected on his relationship with Gaddafi during an interview with Reuters Insider marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 al Qaeda attacks on U.S. cities.

LONDON (Reuters) – A Palestinian bid for greater recognition at the United Nations this month would be a cry of frustration, Middle East envoy Tony Blair said, calling for a new campaign to get Israeli-Palestinian peace talks back on track.

The Palestinians have vowed to upgrade their U.N. status, either by seeking full United Nations membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and West Bank or recognition as a “non-member state.”

LONDON (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to meet British leader David Cameron next week, ending a four-year period during which Putin has had no high-level contact with British officials.

Cameron has met Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev several times at international events but no British prime minister has visited Russia since 2006, or met Putin — widely seen as Russia’s most powerful man — since 2007.

LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) – David Cameron goes to Russia next
week on the first visit by a British prime minister since the
murder of a Kremlin critic in London five years ago, symbolising
both sides’ interest in expanding trade and business ties
despite political differences.

The Kremlin announced Cameron would visit Moscow on Sunday
and Monday. Tony Blair in 2006 was the last British prime
minister to visit Russia.

LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron
signalled on Tuesday that Britain will demand the return of
some powers from Brussels to London in return for agreeing to
any new European Union treaty creating a stronger euro zone.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble wrote in the
Financial Times on Tuesday that strengthening the structures of
the euro zone, which has been rocked by financial crisis, may
require significant treaty changes, although he cautioned
against a “sudden leap” toward fiscal union. [ID:nL5E7K52P6]