Hilda Roads, cabinet member for transport and community protection at the Labour-run council, apologised to residents for the disruption caused.

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Earlier Indonesia's cabinet met to discuss the need for greater protection of the country's migrant workers in the Middle East.

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Last week, GOP senators delayed confirmation votes on two of his nominees for cabinet posts: Gina McCarthy for the Environmental Protection Agency and Thomas Perez for labor secretary.

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Saying an old e-mail or your online photo album should have the same privacy protection from police as your home filing cabinet, Google, Microsoft and others said Tuesday they will ask Congress to overhaul a 24-year-old federal law that helps define online and mobile phone privacy.

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Neil Garnham QC, representing the Home Office, said departments asked for information were the Atomic Weapons Establishment, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, Foreign Office, Health Protection Agency, the Ministry of Defence, intelligence and security agencies, and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

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But Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said he was determined to ensure "additional protection for low-paid workers" as part of reforms to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.

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But it's the Cabinet officials, the people who essentially depend on U.S. military protection, they're the people who are negotiating the deal on Iraq's behalf.

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Retired presidents enjoy a government pension that matches the current salary of cabinet members, reimbursement of staff and office expenses, medical insurance and lifetime Secret Service protection.

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