13,791 source-backed politics facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 101 of 138.
“The new alliance is made up of outgoing Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's State of Law coalition - which came runner-up in the March election - and the third-placed Iraqi National Alliance, along with other Shia factions.”
“well ahead of the 91 seats held by Iyad Allawi's secular-Sunni bloc”
“Karim Yaqoubi, an INA member, said the Kurdish Alliance would join the new Shia grouping to give them a majority.”
“will walk out for three days on 23 June”
“48-hour strike”
“two 48-hour strikes from 23 June and 14 July”
“Rodney Connor's legal challenge to his general election defeat by Sinn Fein will be heard in September.”
“Sinn Fein's Michelle Gildernew won the Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat by just four votes after three recounts last month.”
“It is expected to last for up to three days.”
“Sir Declan said: "Having regard to the representations of the parties we are going to fix this petition for hearing on Monday 13 September at a venue within the constituency."”
“Ten candidates were elected to the posts in Dumfries and Galloway.”
“£3m plan”
“2,738 responses”
“43% of the public”
“52% of business”
“built in 1908”
“four years after”
“He expressed concerns such an approach could ultimately lead to Labour's target on eradicating child poverty by 2020 - something the coalition government has said it wants to keep”
“It is estimated that there are around 160 local sites, forums and blogs in the London area alone.”
“Harringay Online was originally set up in 2007 by founder Hugh Flouch”
“It now has 2,250 members, which may not sound like many but in terms of readership it extrapolates nationally to the equivalent of the Newsnight audience.”
“the Haringey Green Lanes Food Festival which was attended by more than 10,000 people.”
“Brockley Central is a blog which attracts 1,000 people a day”
“According to the Hansard Society, 70% of online Britons feel that the internet has enabled them to take part in democratic life.”
“He cites the example of the popular East Dulwich forum, a very active site with 12,500 members.”
“Sport Wales said a similar project in Knowsley in the north west of England helped reduce anti-social behaviour in by 37%.”
“We have looked into the costs and logistics of safely hosting the screenings on the Market Place. As people have many other options of where to watch the matches and because of the high costs involved, particularly at a time of national au…”
“Number 10 now says it will respond to the e-petitions which had more than 500 signatures when the general election was called.”
“The largest, calling for plans for a pay-as-you-drive road pricing system to be dropped, received almost two million signatures.”
“1200 people wanted John Seddon to be made 'public services tsar'”
“All petitions which had exceeded the 500 signature threshold as of 6 April 2010 will now get a response.”
“four women, two men and three children died in the blast in Maywand district of the province.”
“Officials said eight others were wounded in the attack.”
“Shane Jones, who has admitted to using his ministerial credit card to pay for 20 adult movies.”
“New Zealand journalists have been poring over 7,000 pages of credit card expenses, released under freedom of information laws, and found that hundreds of purchases from former Labour government ministers broke the rules.”
“124,326 phone taps were authorised.”
“76 out of every 100,000 Italians had their phones tapped.”
“the Netherlands, with 62 out of every 100,000”
“Switzerland with 32 people out of every 100,000”
“Magistrates would only be able to carry out intercepts for up to 75 days (with a short extension possible on top of that)”
“not the 18 months or so that some investigations now last.”
“publishers could face fines of up to 465,000 euros (£384,000; $563,000) for reporting the content of wiretaps”
“Mr Berlusconi says the new law is about defending privacy "100%".”
“The BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei says Taiwan's current President Ma Ying-jeou has made efforts to improve relations with China since he led the Kuomintang (KMT) party into office in 2008.”
“Israeli tightened the blockade in 2007 after Hamas took power.”
“The Islamist movement had won elections in 2006”
“the raid on the Free Gaza Flotilla, in which nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed”
“73% of people asked said they did not believe the blockade of Gaza should be lifted”
“polled 561 people from Israel's Jewish population”
“Members of the council's development committee had agreed to set aside £6,000 out of the tourism, culture and arts budget to go towards buying the anchor,”
“Mr Peterson's bill must pass the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture before it can go to a vote by the full House.”
“Similar proposals to ease travel restrictions have in the past died in the committee stage, never even making it to the House or the Senate.”
“70 officers were injured dealing with the protests”
“During Labour's 13 years in power, GP pay rocketed.”
“But it is the third plank of reform directly affecting GPs that is causing most concern.”
“We felt optimistic in 1997 and that did not work out as we would have wished.”
“Large international PR agency Ketchum was hired to help Russia 'shift global views' of the country prior to and during the 2006 G8 summit.”
“These things will be better for Russia's image than 10 economic forums," says Mr Gavra.”
“Mr Lavrov said Moscow was in talks on building nuclear reactors in Iran in addition to the Bushehr site, due to open in August after years of delay.”
“More than 6,500 people have commented on the coalition government's policy programme on the Cabinet Office website.”
“More than 100,000 people have also downloaded the 34-page document since it was published last month, the Cabinet Office said.”
“The deadline for posting comments was midnight on Thursday.”
“The Cabinet Office said particular effort would be focused on those sections which received the most comments, which at the moment are energy and climate change, with 709 comments, and deficit reduction, with 538 comments.”
“We have already announced a major public engagement exercise over the summer to help shape the forthcoming spending review.”
“She said senior ministers would also be taking part in a webcast "in the next few weeks" to deal with some of the points raised by the public.”
“The obelisk was blown up by Republicans in the 1920s but it was never replaced and the site is now overgrown.”
“Interestingly, during the 1930s when they were doing some work on the church it was found that IRA weapons had been hidden here.”
“Party members, trade union members, MPs and MEPs will be ballotted and the result announced on 25 September.”
“He is one of five candidates to become the next Labour leader.”
“He is facing former cabinet ministers Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and David Miliband, as well as backbench MP Diane Abbott, in the three-month contest for the Labour leadership.”
“In the general election in the Netherlands, the free-market VVD party has come first, beating the Dutch Labour Party by one seat.”
“The anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, came third, more than doubling its seats.”
“Job Cohen's Dutch Labour Party got thirty seats in the 150 seat parliament”
“I voted for Wilders, and I'm glad he got 24 seats.”
“Wilders has 24 seats, it's truly a disaster.”
“Mark Rutte could become the first PM from his political camp since World War I”
“What this election shows once again is that in recent years more and more smaller parties take a share of the parliament seats, which makes it more and more difficult to form coalitions, leading to more disputes which causes an unstable go…”
“Wilders wants to limit mass-immigration, limit the building of mosques and limit the money for Europe. He also wants hard punishments for criminals and more 'barbarian' circumstances in jail. On the other hand he wants to give more money f…”
“The route was approved by county council planners last year but resident Vivienne Morge argued it would have a devastating impact on wildlife.”
“After losing in the Court of Appeal she vowed to take it to the Supreme Court.”
“She had claimed that the Bus Rapid Transit scheme would harm badger setts and the habitat of protected bat species that had found a safe haven in the vegetation on the abandoned railway.”
“Mrs Morge, of Wych Lane, Gosport, said the plan violated the EC Habitat Directive and domestic bat protection laws.”
“In 1969 Lord Beeching caused the closure of the 128-year-old railway line between Fareham and Gosport in Hampshire.”
“There is concern for them because it will be necessary to cut a swathe approximately eight to nine metres wide through this vegetation to allow for the new hard surfacing.”
“Hampshire County Council has said it had the backing of 70% from residents during a period of consultation.”
“The project must be finished by spring 2011 to qualify for government funding.”
“In March 2007 a House of Lords committee called on the government to look into how it dealt with VAT fraud on goods imported within the EU because the long waits risked putting some small companies out of business.”
“720km (447 miles) Line of Control (LoC)”
“promised date of 10 June”
“came to our house on 25 May”
“came to light on 2 June”
“200km (124 miles) stretch”
“tens of thousands of villagers”
“May 2009 when 12 people died”
“August 2008, hundreds of people”
“protests of 2 and 10 June”
“Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to raise the use of Mr Obama's aggressive rhetoric during a regular telephone conversation with the president this weekend.”
“It is clear that there was a lack of integrity on the part of BP when it came to what it told us about the adequacy of their technology, the sufficiency of blow-out prevention and the capacity to clean up”
“About 300 people were turned away in Lewisham and another 150 were unable to vote in Hackney.”
“The inquiry will identify the problems and action needed to tackle the issues before the Greater London Authority elections in 2012.”
