Since he inherited the leadership of the Labour Party -- already compromised by its support of George Bush and the Iraq war -- from a grudging Tony Blair, Brown's faced the financial meltdown (next to Iceland, the UK is probably the hardest hit nation), and, more recently, the Parliamentary scandal, in which much of his Cabinet engaged in the most louche expense-account cheating.
A1 Killings Disrupt Mideast Talks Prime Minister Ehud Barak ordered cabinet ministers engaged in peace talks to return to Jerusalem after two Israeli civilians were killed by Palestinian militants.
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy is likely to face tough questions in a interview on prime time television Monday night about a growing scandal that has seen his approval rating plunge to fresh lows and one of his cabinet members engaged in a fight for political survival.
The Iranian president has witnessed the arrest of officials close to high-ranking members of his cabinet, and has engaged in an escalating war of words with senior conservatives and Iran's judiciary.
It potentially provides the first opportunity for a British cabinet minister to engage with the incoming Trump administration.
30 days prior to Election Day, I will publish a balanced budget online, and I and my Cabinet will personally engage in a National Deliberative Dialog online, to ensure that before I am elected, my proposed balanced budget has the general approval of the entire voting public.
Generals and admirals, civilian scientists and acquisition "experts," cabinet officials and Senators are engaged in the battle for its survival, and it still seems tied up in miles of red tape.
ON THE day Japan experienced the world's worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, the prime minister, Keizo Obuchi, was engaged in planning a cabinet shuffle.
When asked in a telephone interview last week if he would consider a cabinet position under Mr. Bush, Mr. Rumsfeld said, "I'm fully engaged".
Since then, he has been engaged in a running skirmish over every cabinet appointment, including the oil minister, the sports minister, the foreign minister and deputy foreign minister.
He engaged in extended petty quarrels with generals and cabinet members.
