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LONDON --Britain's new leader chose his senior circle of ministers on Thursday, picking David Miliband, the youngest foreign secretary in decades and a rising star who voiced doubts over the Iraq war.

Miliband, a 41-year-old environment chief, was confirmed as Foreign Secretary, according to a British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy.

Gordon Brown, who became prime minister Wednesday after waiting for a decade, planned a host of changes from Tony Blair's final team, bringing a crop of young legislators into his government.

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NEW YORK (AP) — It’s China’s turn on the climate hot seat.Last month energy analysts announced that China’s booming economy has propelled it past the United States as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the atmospheric pollutant that is primarily responsible for global warming. China emitted 8 percent more carbon dioxide than the United States in 2006, according to a report released in June by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.

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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's new leader chose his senior circle of ministers on Thursday, picking David Miliband, the youngest foreign secretary in decades and a rising star who voiced doubts over the Iraq war.

Miliband, a 41-year-old environment chief, was confirmed as Foreign Secretary, according to a British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy.

Gordon Brown, who became prime minister Wednesday after waiting for a decade, planned a host of changes from Tony Blair's final team, bringing a crop of young legislators into his government.

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La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, y el

primer ministro francés, François Fillon, aseguraron hoy que las

relaciones franco-germanas no se verán alteradas por el cambio de

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LONDON - An emotional Tony Blair resigned as prime minister Wednesday after a decade in power, clearing the way for Treasury chief Gordon Brown to take command of the government.Blair submitted his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II during a 25-minute closed-door meeting at Buckingham Palace. With his wife, Cherie, he waved to reporters and then traveled to his constituency in northern England, where he is expected to quit as a lawmaker to take up his post with the Quartet of Mideast peace mediat...

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