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Face down the militarists and get out of Afghanistan. No strings attached Simon Jenkins...increased this subservience. While French and German governments assess their nation's interest, Blair and Gordon Brown have been me-too kids on the block, panting after Washington's every wild venture. Despite 412 British soldiers dead,... In this article: Barack Obama, Taliban, Afghanistan, Gordon Brown, Osama bin Laden, Britain, NATO, Washington, and Militarism |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | November 13, 2009
UK sends officials to Washington to drum up IMF support for Tobin Tax
...support for Tobin Tax Gordon Brown has sent two senior Treasury officials to Washington in an effort to win the International Monetary Fund round to the controversial idea of a tax on all financial transactions. Published: 8:19AM GMT 13...
In this article: International Monetary Fund, Tax, James Tobin, Washington, Timothy Geithner, Oxfam, and Gordon Brown
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Guardian | 7 days ago
Afghanistan: Barack Obama gets ready to make toughest call of presidency
...as well as with provincial and district officials and tribal elders. Afghanistan: Barack Obama gets ready to make toughest call of presidency Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with US president Barack Obama in Washington for the first time
In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Taliban, US, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, James Jones, Al-qaida, Pakistan, and British Army
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Independent.co.uk - UK | November 07, 2009
Brown backs new tax on banks - but the US is opposed
...Brown at the G20 Gordon Brown suffered a rebuff from Washington yesterday after he signalled Britain's backing for plans for an international transactions tax on banks to help the world recover from the financial crisis. At the G20 summit...
In this article: Tax, Gordon Brown, James Tobin, Tim Geithner, Britain, Washington, US, Downing Street, St Andrews, and Derivative
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Miami Herald | 7 days ago
EU ministers mull Afghanistan
...reform Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan leadership: Clean up your act - for real this time - or risk a cutoff of support. In what 10...
In this article: Afghanistan, EU, Hamid Karzai, Jonas Gahr Stoere, NATO, Gordon Brown, Stanley McChrystal, U.S., Europe, and Germany
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washingtonpost.com | November 13, 2009
UK's Brown: NATO troop increase for Afghanistan
...amid rising casualties. But he insisted other NATO nations would step up to help share the burden. Brown says Washington and London "need our other NATO allies to help" and that "we could probably get another 5,000 forces into Afghanistan."
In this article: NATO, Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, Britain, London, Washington, U.S., and BBC
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Washington, D.C. (pronounced: /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory into a single entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; however, because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs, its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of 5.3 million, the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
The United States Congress has supreme authority over Washington, D.C.; residents of the city therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
- Name:
- District of Columbia
- Motto:
- Justitia Omnibus(Justice for All)
- Founding Date:
- July 16, 1790
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 68.3
- Total Area (km):
- 177.0
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 61.4
- Land Area (km):
- 159.0
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 6.9
- Water Area (km):
- 18.0
- Elevation (ft):
- 0–409
- Elevation (m):
- 0–125
- Time Zone:
- EST
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