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Peru's right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has admitted defeat in the run-off of the presidential election. Nike Dunk SB Low Ms Fujimori said she would congratulate her rival, populist former army officer Ollanta Humala, in person. Mr Humala has a steady 2.7% lead with almost all the votes counted. In a reaction to Mr Humala's apparent win, the stock exchange in the capital Lima, fell by more than 10% shortly after opening, prompting officials to suspend trading for two hours. "I recognise his triumph," Ms Fujimori said in a brief message to the media. Mr Humala had already declared victory on Sunday night. Coach Sunglasses With most votes counted, the leftist ex-soldier has 51.4% of the vote - 2.7 percentage points ahead of his conservative rival. In his victory speech, he promised that poor Peruvians would share the country's mineral wealth and benefit from its impressive economic growth. Reluctant voters Mr Humala and Ms Fujimori, the daughter of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori, are at opposite ends of the political spectrum - a fact that worried some Peruvians who said they would not vote for either of them. It was one of the tightest election races in Peru's recent history - and the bitterest, says the BBC's Dan Collyns in Lima. This was a run-off vote after the first round on 10 April saw three centrist candidates defeated, but left neither Mr Humala nor Ms Fujimori with the 50% of votes needed to win outright. Nike Dunk SB Mid If Mr Humala is confirmed as the winner, he will succeed Alan Garcia, who could not stand for a second term. Ollanta Humala, 48, comes from a left-wing tradition of greater state intervention. He staged a short-lived rebellion against Alberto Fujimori in 2000 and narrowly lost to Mr Garcia in the last presidential election in 2006. Mr Humala campaigned on a promise to increase the state's role in the economy and redistribute wealth to Peru's poor majority. Coach Boots His critics fear he will embark on interventionist policies similar to those of President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, although Mr Humala says he is more in sympathy with Brazil's moderate left-wing approach. Polarised nation He has also denied allegations that he committed human rights abuses during the fight against Shining Path rebels in the 1990s when he was an army captain. Keiko Fujimori, 36, appeals to Peruvians who still admire her father, president for a decade from 1990. He is now serving a 25-year jail sentence for corruption and organising death squads. She has defended his record, saying by taming hyper-inflation and defeating Marxist Shining Path rebels, he laid the basis for Peru's current economic boom. Nike outlet She supports free-market economic policies, advocates a tough approach to crime and promised to improve social programmes and infrastructure in poor areas. Critics say her main aim by running for president was to secure a pardon for her father, a claim she denied. The new president will have to pull back together a polarised nation, our correspondent says.

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The government is to centralise the buying of goods and services across departments in a bid to save £3bn. Cheap Nike Dunk Low The move follows a review by tycoon Sir Philip Green who said Whitehall was not making the most of its scale, buying power and credit rating. Sir Philip found various departments had signed multiple contracts with major suppliers at different prices. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said departments paying different rates for the same goods was "bonkers". The plan is to create a central government procurement team which would buy goods and services such as vehicles, stationery and office furniture at a single set price. Nike outlet Sir Philip, the owner of retail giants Topshop and BHS, said the government's £2bn telecoms bill could be cut by up to 40%, and he pointed out that some departments had spent £73 on boxes of paper while others had got them for £8. Other examples included different departments and agencies paying between £350 and £2,000 for the same laptops and between £85 and £240 for the same printer cartridges. Spending 'madness' Sir Philip said civil servants should treat the buying of goods and services as if they were spending their own money. Cheap Women Nike Dunk SB High Mr Maude, who is also Paymaster General, said: "It is bonkers for different parts of government to be paying vastly different prices for exactly the same goods. "We are putting a stop to this madness which has been presided over for too long. Until recently, there wasn't even any proper central data on procurement spending." He said centralised procurement could save more than £3bn a year by 2015 - a saving of 25%. Mr Maude said "significant changes" had already been made over the past year to cut procurement spending by £1bn. Cheap Women Nike Dunk SB Low He also stressed the government's commitment to buying more goods and services from smaller suppliers.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree granting a general amnesty, state media say. Coach Sunglasses It said the amnesty would cover all political movements, including the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Opposition figures were quick to dismiss the move. The move comes after months of protests against President Assad's rule, leading to a crackdown in which activists say more than 1,000 people have been killed and 10,000 arrested. The government has also offered some political concessions, but protesters have dismissed these as largely cosmetic. cheap nike shoes store The announcement of the amnesty came as at least three people were reported to have been killed in continuing clashes between security forces and protesters. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said President Assad's position was becoming"less tenable" by the day. "The demands of the Syrian people for change only grow stronger," she said, adding that Mr Assad had "not engaged seriously in any kind of reform efforts". 'Too little, too late' "President Assad grants a general pardon for the crimes committed before 31 May," said a bulletin carried by state media. "The pardon includes all those who belong to political movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood." coach outlet Syrian activists gathered for a conference in Turkey dismissed the amnesty offer, with one describing it as "too little, too late". "This measure is insufficient," said Abdel Razak Eid, an activist from the "Damascus Declaration" group. "We are united under the slogan: the people want the fall of the regime and all those who have committed crimes brought to account." Another activist, Mohammad Abdullah, said the amnesty offer showed "weakness on the part of the regime." Nike Dunk High In Washington, state department spokesman Mark Toner said President Assad needed to take "concrete steps". "He's said a lot of things in recent weeks and months, but we've seen very little concrete action," Mr Toner said. News of the amnesty came as army forces using tanks were reported to be attacking two towns in central Syria, Talbisa and Rastan, where protests have continued. At least one civilian was killed in Rastan and two more in the southern province of Deraa, an epicentre for recent protests, activists said. The official news agency, Sana, said two soldiers had been killed in Rastan, and that troops had seized arms. Nike Dunk Low Foreign journalists have been prevented from entering Syria, and reports of violence are hard to verify. Hama uprising The Muslim Brotherhood has supported but did not initiate the current uprising. The banned political movement was behind a 1982 uprising in the city of Hama that was ruthlessly repressed, with at least 10,000 killed. Membership of the group is punishable by death, though this has not been enforced. Coach Boots In March this year, shortly before protests escalated, President Assad issued an amnesty for those convicted of minor crimes and prisoners over the age of 70. In April, the president lifted decades-old emergency laws, but violence by the security forces was widely seen to have got worse following the announcement. The government has blamed the unrest on armed groups, Islamists and foreign agitators.

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