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John Holmes is Undersecretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
NPR: Weighing International Aid for Kenya
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In his report, former ambassador Sir John Holmes says there should not be a "blanket refusal" to reconsider cases.
BBC: Military medals system 'needs rapid re-think'
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Mr. JOHN HOLMES (Undersecretary General, United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs): A pleasure.
NPR: Weighing International Aid for Kenya
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The UN's former humanitarian chief, John Holmes, has criticised the report.
BBC: Sri Lanka denies intimidating UN over Tamil deaths
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In April 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron asked leading diplomat Sir John Holmes to review the policy on military medals as regulations are not always strictly enforced.
BBC: Essex soldier from Arctic convoys denied Russian medal
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The Bomber Command clasp was introduced in February, following a review of military decorations by former diplomat Sir John Holmes, who concluded that Bomber Command had been treated "inconsistently" with their Fighter Command counterparts.
BBC: Sheffield & South Yorkshire
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More than 170 supply trucks crossed into Gaza on Monday, less than a third of the daily number that crossed in 2005, said John Holmes, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator.
CNN: Palestinians: 1,300 killed, 22,000 buildings destroyed in Gaza
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Humanitarian Affairs chief John Holmes said.
CNN: Israeli strike kills at least 1 aid worker, U.N. says
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Magpies chairman John Armstrong-Holmes has said the takeover could be completed "in a few weeks".
BBC: Munto reveals Notts County plans
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At a literary supper in Boston to celebrate John Greenleaf Whittier's 70th birthday, Twain mocked Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ralph Waldo Emerson, all of whom were in attendance.
ECONOMIST: A man who never let anything stand in the way of a joke