After the 2011 attack in Norway, in which 77 people were killed and I almost lost my life, the Norwegian prime minister spoke of fighting hatred with more love, more democracy and more openness.
Tensions over the party's direction rose as Lord Mandelson, the Blairite former cabinet minister, accused Ed Miliband of fighting a "class war" election.
Mr. Cahuzac was fired and expelled from the party, but that the minister in charge of fighting tax fraud had committed it himself has been deeply damaging.
BERLIN — NATO's foreign ministers, showing the strains of fighting two wars at once, tried to play down divisions over the intensity of the air campaign against Libya on Thursday, urging patience and resolve as the alliance carried out what one official called "a significant level" of attacks on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces.
Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister, doubts the wisdom of fighting to win back powers from Brussels though he is not thought to be implacably opposed.
These people, who in theory should be his sturdiest allies, accuse Mr. Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, of not fighting the good fight in the 10-month-old conflict with the Palestinians, which has claimed more than 600 lives on both sides and turned a declared cease-fire into a sad joke.
This was to have been a day in which Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, and the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, announced a cease-fire, forged before dawn this morning between Mr. Arafat and Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister, after the worst day of fighting yet, with three Israeli soldiers and six Palestinians killed in gun battles.
In April 2009, we travelled together as foreign ministers to Sri Lanka, as 25 years of fighting between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers neared its end.
Less-than-reassuring was the reaction of Turkey's prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, to the recent outburst of fighting.
Writing in a book of condolence at South Africa House, the prime minister said of Mr Mandela: "Your cause of fighting for freedom and against discrimination, your struggle for justice, your triumph against adversity - these things will inspire generations to come.
