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...It has increased a windfall tax on banks to 50 per cent and transferred revenues from a 1.5 per cent supplemental income tax from local to central government....
...The White House will ask Congress to fund arms for Taiwan as part of a supplemental budget request for Ukraine, in an effort to speed up the supply of weapons to the country amid the rising threat from China...
...The company aims to deploy fully driverless vehicles after local legislation is expected to allow it in 2025....
...Visentini says he transferred the money to ITUC’s solidarity fund to pay for flights to a conference....
...Wearing shorts to the local Panther Coffee, Rabois says he makes friends stay for at least a week, preferably a month, when they visit, so they can see what the city is like when they’re not on a short vacation...
...The bigger question, some said, was why local authorities did not act faster and why residents did not take them seriously....
...Those banks, in turn, often hold large amounts of local sovereign bonds and often fund themselves by borrowing from foreign savers....
...She faces other threats, including a lawsuit in the election tribunal alleging that she used money from corruption to fund her 2014 election campaign....
...In her opinion there is real demand from people who are bored with hotels and who want to experience a local way of life on their holidays instead: It’s about people who want to live like a local — a one-off...
...“I remember the Soviet Union and the big offices of the time: oak walls and big columns....
...Suddenly, the European habit of taking a lengthy late summer vacation had become very inconvenient. Gather the Executive Board, Trichet instructed Papadia....
...On the surface, contributing to this fund makes sense for China....
...“As mayor, I will work to create our own local bank, one that serves our local economy,” he said on his website....
...Magnitsky’s family – and a local police officer – pressed to open a murder investigation....
...Local banks repo the t-bills at the Greek central bank to get some desperately needed liquidity....
...Even from this correspondent’s vacation spot on a rustic Swedish island did he notice how carefully the FOMC’s last statement was scrutinised....
...But Mr Mason argues that Groupon’s differentiates itself with its focus on local neighbourhoods and local merchants, rather than entire cities or national merchants....
...The revival of the tourist sector is evident in the growth in the number of casas rurales – small country hotels and lodgings – partly with the help of European Union aid funds....
...Demand for renting old stone houses has remained strong this year, with high-end tourists from the European Union seeking slightly less luxurious vacations than in past years....
...European Union ministers are reportedly going to back a call from the IMF to double its funds to $500bn when they meet at this weekend’s G20 meeting in London....
...His local paper, the Camden New Journal, said that in September and October he had gone to the theatre 14 times....
...Bush had disappointed the aid community after promising “compassion” in his State of the Union address last week....
...But not much changed and, by late 2004, Texas City workers had grown so fearful of a massive accident that the local union contacted colleagues in Alaska for help in engaging the services of Chuck Hamel,...
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