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World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online: "One year on, Blair fails to match tsunami aid pledge with hard cash
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor
TONY BLAIR has reneged on a solemn promise to “more than match” donations from the British public to tsunami victims in Asia.

A year after the world’s most deadly natural disaster, the Prime Minister has come under attack for promising hundreds of millions of pounds of assistance that never materialised. The public donated a record �300 million to the appeal made by the Disasters Emergency Committee, an umbrella group representing major charities."