Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has made a statement to Parliament about the affair and the prospect of restarting currently stalled cross-party talks on the future of political funding.

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In a statement, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti thanked all those who had "enabled a positive outcome of this affair, which was made all the more complicated by the extreme danger of the situation".

BBC: Ruined buildings in Marjeh, northern Syria (11 April 2013)