Jerusalem (AP) — Israel's Foreign Ministry says an expected visit by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence appears to have been postponed again. Pence was scheduled to visit last month. The official reason for the delay was the Senate tax vote. But it also followed region-wide uproar over President Donald
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Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he wants to conclude the government's planned tax reform this year, targeting income tax cuts for workers with low and medium-sized wages. The tax cuts will make it more feasible to work, which will bring more people to the job market and help ease
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(Bloomberg) — China starts three years of “critical battles” against debt, poverty and pollution in 2018 as policy makers also face rising U.S. interest rates, renewed trade-war threats, and nuclear saber-rattling from North Korea. While the nation is starting from a position of greater strength, with full-year
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With the closure of RBI's deadline to resolve the 28 identified large stressed accounts in the second list, banks are gearing up to refer as many as 24 of … The apex bank's internal advisory committee identified 12 large stressed cases worth over Rs 50 billion, accounting to 25 per cent (Rs 1.75 trillion) of
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The U.S. general commanding forces against the Islamic State said it has lost 98 percent of the land it claimed and 7.7 million people have been liberated from its control, but warned the group could continue as a shadow terror outfit operating without a base. Army Lieutenant General Paul Funk,
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