Ministers last night ordered an urgent nationwide review of child protection procedures in the wake of the death of a 17-month-old boy at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and another man.
As airline companies across the world reviewed their safety procedures in the wake of the tragedy, Carsten Spohr, the head of Lufthansa, whose low-cost subsidiary Germanwings operated the Barcelona to Düsseldorf route, was blunt.
Mr. Freeh has already asked William H. Webster, the former F.B.I. and C.I.A. director, to lead a review of the bureau's internal procedures in the wake of the new disclosure that espionage went undetected for more than 15 years.
[Page A28.] But the finger-pointing endures over what went wrong, who was responsible and what it means for other states and counties that are overhauling their voting procedures in the wake of the 2000 stalemate.
Republicans and Democrats hailed it as a step toward helping the state fulfill the requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act, passed in 2002 to improve voting procedures in the wake of the 2000 election.
Sources at other volunteer groups, including Médecins sans Frontières and Dublin-based organisation Goal, said they had no plans to overhaul their procedures in the wake of Cafferkey's diagnosis.
Some lawmakers tried to revise the state's condemnation procedures in the wake of the Connecticut case, but their bills died because of strenuous opposition from the Bloomberg administration.
The S.N.B. announced earlier Wednesday that it had tightened its rules on private financial transactions by staff and strengthened its compliance procedures in the wake of the Hildebrand scandal.
The Help America Vote Act, which Congress enacted last year, authorized up to $3.9 billion in federal spending to clean up the nation's election procedures in the wake of the 2000 presidential election, in which the outcome of the Bush-Gore race was delayed by ballot irregularities in Florida.
Easington MP Grahame Morris called for a wider public debate over gun licensing procedures in the wake of the shooting.
