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1. Close relatives of government officials have also been victims of assassinations, abductions and roadside bombs. gainst fellow Sunnis seen as collaborating with the U.S. and the Iraqi government.
2. MPCC President Prabha Rau confirmed that the show cause notice was served to Sawant by the party’s disciplinary action committee seeking his explanation on his comments made gainst Alva.
3. The consequence is that there is less a debate than a stand–off between two compelling yet seemingly paradoxical propositions÷ "The government is rebuilding the NHS through an unprecedented expansion in funding" versus "the government is destroying the NHS through an unprecedented process of marketisation, privatisation and commercialisation". A gainst this background, it is significant that the last time there was a comparable increase in spending on the NHS, in 1''1, the extra money went to pay for the costs of the internal market.