It is a hurt that has now prompted an official apology from the city of Liverpool.

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And the government has finally issued an official apology for its slow response to the outbreak.

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In 2008 the Australian government gave an official apology to its Aboriginal communities.

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In 2009 former Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued an official apology to Mr Turing, labelling the treatment he had received as "utterly unfair" and "appalling".

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The German president visited Kalavryta in 2000 to pay his respects but stopped short of an official apology so as not to broach the topic of reparations.

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But her official team apology was less unequivocal.

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However, the U.S. administration official said he knew nothing about an apology.

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After Mediaset's footage was published, Ricardo Cristiani, a reporter for RAI television, Mediaset's state-owned competitor, published an apology in the PA's official trumpet Al-Hayat al-Jadida.

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The PR nightmare ended on Sunday when Hon Hai chose not to pursue the case any further, according to China's official Xinhua news agency, and was capped off with a mutual apology between the firm and newspaper for all the trouble that the lawsuit had caused.

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