Tony Abbott has sought to play down the backlash over Australia's decision to refer to East Jerusalem as "disputed" rather than "occupied" territory, saying the government had made only a "terminological clarification".
In a statement shortly following the law was passed, the government said that "South Africa takes note of the recent developments regarding the situation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex persons (LGBTI) worldwide….[and] will, through existing diplomatic channels, be seeking clarification on these developments from many capitals around the world".
The United Arab Emirates said earlier in the day that it wanted "a formal clarification" of Biden's recent comments that America's allies in the Middle East sent weapons and cash to extremists fighting in Syria.
On Friday she was told by the Bank of Cyprus that it was seeking clarification.
The Irish Times and the public-service broadcaster RTÉ are separately seeking judicial clarification on their right to report on remarks made in the Irish parliament about Denis O'Brien and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo-Irish Bank. Anglo-Irish Bank
Not surprisingly, he would welcome a clarification of the rules governing the domestic use of CCTV cameras.
The critics nodded, then one writer asked for clarification about a report that HBO didn't even reply to writer Matthew Weiner - a former Sopranos scribe - when he offered the channel his award-winning Mad Men, which wound up at AMC. "Here's the bottom line: it's a wonderful show," Plepler said.
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Yes governments approved the final Summary for Policy Makers on a line-by-line basis – but the draft was written by the scientists and the scientists had to approve every change that was made – indeed the changes that were made were mostly for clarification.
That was what the argument between senator Brandis and the Greens was all about but there has been no change in policy – simply a terminological clarification.
The result is this "clarification" and apology, which appears today at the foot of The Sun's page 2: "A headline in our 15 March article on Britain's Got Talent wrongly suggested that Louis Walsh had been involved in a 'fix' on the show.
