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“The Refugee Agency UNHCR, for example, has only 10% of what it needs in Somalia, and last year conducted just the sort of results-based review that is now demanded, he adds.”
“Mr Mitchell is acutely aware that his is one of only two government departments whose budgets have been ring-fenced, and he wants to show that it delivers value for money at a time of such widespread cuts across the rest of British governm…”
“The visit to Pakistan is the second overseas trip Mr Mitchell has made in his new role, which aides say show it is one of his top priorities.”
“Britain's overseas aid budget is to be protected from tough spending cuts planned by the new government.”
“more than 200,000 displaced Tamil civilians had returned to their villages”
“three-day visit”
“Sri Lanka's Tamils account for 12.5% of the island's 20 million population”
“Up to 100,000 people were killed in the island's 25-year civil war, the United Nations estimates”
“Bodelwyddan's population of 1,000 could increase six-fold under Denbighshire council's local development plan, it is claimed.”
“The plan, covering 100 acres (40.5 hectares), also includes a school, residential care home and improved access to the A55.”
“In January, the vote returned a 13-to-one majority against the plan, on a turnout of just over 25%.”
“The loss of prime agricultural land, the impact on public services and the absence of any proof of need for 1,715 dwellings leaves us wondering whether DCC appreciate what they are suggesting.”
“Villagers opposing proposals for up to 2,000 new homes in their community are holding the latest in a series of public meetings.”
“The support from residents has fully justified the fight and it is disappointing that the council still desperately clings to this untenable proposal. The loss of prime agricultural land, the impact on public services and the absence of a…”
“the fourth in as many years”
“two traditional allies”
“In February and March”
“February and March”
“two mid-level powers”
“Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also attended first plenary session of the Joint Ministerial Council (JMC) since the new UK coalition government came to power.”
“It comes a day after David Cameron hosted a Downing Street meeting with the leaders of the various administrations, including Carwyn Jones.”
“It would seem that she [Ms Hutt] and her officials have failed to make meaningful contingency plans prior to the government being formed.”
“Mr Alexander showed an interest in the Holtham Commission report, that suggests Wales is under-funded, and would be happy to meet Gerry Holtham.”
“The coalition government at Westminster has insisted that any change to the way Wales is funded must await a referendum on assembly powers.”
“This is a major statement of poor financial management from the European Union, directed towards a government department in Northern Ireland.”
“He had 16 of the 33 nominations from MPs needed.”
“Ms Abbott has 11”
“Shadow foreign secretary David Miliband is leading the field with 74 nominations.”
“Mr Miliband's brother Ed, the shadow climate change secretary, has 57 nominations”
“while shadow education secretary Mr Balls has 33.”
“Mr Burnham's campaign say he also has 33 - the official list will not be updated until 1230 BST.”
“The result will be announced on the first day of the party conference on 25 September.”
“Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman nominated Ms Abbot on Tuesday”
“The leader is chosen by an electoral college system made up of three sections - Labour MPs and MEPs, party members and members of affiliated unions and other affiliated organisations.”
“The chair of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee has written to the chairman of the parliamentary party, Tony Lloyd, underlining "widespread concern" among grassroots party members about the lack of different views being represent…”
“The former education secretary Estelle Morris, now Lady Morris, also told the BBC the leadership contenders were all white, male, Oxbridge-educated and former Downing Street researchers.”
“Ms Abbott was the UK's first female black MP.”
“Mr Burnham and Ms Abbott are Cambridge graduates.”
“John McDonnell had 16 of the 33 nominations from MPs needed.”
“Ms Abbott has 11 - but leading contender David Miliband has said he will use his vote to back her.”
“Mr Miliband's brother Ed, the shadow climate change secretary, has 57 nominations.”
“shadow education secretary Mr Balls has 33.”
“Mr Burnham was on 31 but his campaign says he now has the 33 needed.”
“The leader is chosen by an electoral college system made up of three sections.”
“People are balloted individually in each of the three sections, with the results from each of the three parts of the electoral college making up a third of the final result.”
“the official list will not be updated until 1230 BST.”
“The unexpected big winner was the anti-Islam Freedom Party, the PVV, which took its number of seats from nine in the last parliament to 24 - its best-ever finish.”
“With more than 99% of votes counted, the VVD had 31 of 150 seats, while Labour had 30.”
“The VVD, which had 21 seats in the outgoing parliament, had topped opinion polls for several weeks.”
“Labour lost two seats compared with the previous elections in 2006.”
“The party won 21 seats, 20 fewer than at the last election in 2006.”
“Final results will not be declared until 15 June, when all overseas votes have been counted.”
“During the campaign, he said he would have a coalition in place by 1 July if his party won”
“After the Christian Democrats plummeted to a historic low, outgoing leader Jan Peter Balkenende resigned his position as party leader”
“The election - the fourth since 2002 - was called after the centrist coalition government”
“The youth, believed to be 14 or 15”
“striking one subject who later died”
“half a dozen youths”
“The agent shot at him twice”
“so far this year 17 Mexican nationals have been killed or injured by US immigration authorities”
“up from 12 last year”
“and five in 2008”
“Mexicans make up three-quarters of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the US”
“estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the US”
“Mr Blagojevich, who was impeached last year, has strongly denied the charges.”
“First Minister Alex Salmond presented the awards and praised the "extraordinary" acts of courage shown by the recipients.”
“Spain's two main trade unions called a strike across the public sector on Tuesday to protest against an average 5% cut in pay.”
“And a recent poll published in El Pais newspaper showed 58% support for the public sector pay cut.”
“The unions are already threatening a general strike. This time, organisers claim up to 75% of public sector workers took part; the government estimate is close to 11%.”
“After taking office in April 2008, Botswana's famously teetotal president, Ian Khama, lobbied for tax on alcohol to rise, to as much as 70%.”
“But faced with loud opposition from the brewers and Botswana's hospitality and tourism industry, he compromised at just 30%.”
“The mayor of Copeland, Mike McVeigh, said: 'There is nothing I can say that will ease the pain.'”
“Copeland MP Jamie Reed has called for the local community to decide the shape of any inquiry into the killings.”
“That's why he keeps the Border Patrol purposely under-staffed, under-funded, and under-equipped.”
“Lord Myners, who was made a working peer and drafted into the Labour government in 2008”
“Secondly, for the prime minister, it contrives to side-step the small problem that the Tories have but one MP in Scotland.”
“Secondly, Alex Salmond plans to use the JMC to press for specific concessions on spending: for example, the demand that the devolved territories should get their Barnett consequential share of money spent regenerating London off the back o…”
“Ministers have yet to decide whether all of the cutbacks will be enforced immediately or lumped together with next year's reductions.”
“With 108 Assembly members, 15 different ministers and a long list of special advisers, some believe it is hard for Stormont to justify such big government for a small nation.”
“He will be the first Conservative to chair the Welsh affairs select committee in its 31-year history.”
“Mr Davies attended only 11% of the committee's meetings last year.”
“Labour MPs held the job from Leo Abse in 1979 to Hywel Francis, who chaired it in the last parliament.”
“The parties had agreed the committee would be led by a Conservative MP.”
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold his second Oval Office meeting with Barack Obama on Wednesday, almost exactly a year after his first visit to Washington”
“the nine Turkish activists who died in the Israeli ship raids”
“he said last week during a Palestinian investment conference in the West Bank town of Bethlehem”
“Officers at the council have now recommended the scheme is supported by the authority's cabinet on 15 June.”
“Surveys found about 20 vehicles are parked in these cycle lanes at any time, with a concentration at the Milton Road end.”
“Brighton & Hove City Council, which is currently aiming to make £15m in savings, has set out to recruit four strategy directors.”
“Here we are with an expensive advert and an expensive appointment process. At the end of the day, if some of the existing directors are redundant, [there is] quite an expense in them going, with their pensions and things like that.”
“That's why we need to pay the market rate for those jobs - which is the figure we're offering.”
“The review team will be reporting back options to internal overview and scrutiny committee on 21 June ahead of further consultation with all parties to take place in the summer.”
“To do one kilometre of a tarmac road requires you to have $1m (£660,000),”
“The handful of protesters said 8 June should be marked as National Pothole Day.”
“Five thousand shillings ($2; £1.30) fish - direct from Lake Ssebagala, the mayor of Kampala,”
“while attending parliament, which he can do since being elected as an MP two months ago.”
“Meanwhile about 150 of his supporters and relatives have held a candle-lit vigil to mark exactly four months since the government dragged him forcibly into detention.”
“With nearly all votes counted the Liberal Party (VVD) was in the lead with 31 seats in the 150-seat parliament, one seat ahead of Labour”
“Mr Rutte has set himself a deadline of 1 July to form a government”
“The CDA won 41 seats in the 2006 election”
