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In two months, about two hundred people died.

Most of the victims were homeless.

Only in the last three days, were thirty deaths. The temperature in the capital Warsaw is 22 degrees below zero. [More]

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MADRID - The armed group ETA on Sunday made a show of strength by blowing up three bombs, causing no injuries at various tourist shops in Palma de Mallorca, where in July killed two civil guards.

The first explosive device, low-power, burst into the ladies’ room of a pizzeria and minutes later police made controlled exploit another bomb in a bar, before the outbreak of a third party on low trading capital Balearic reported AFP the government delegation in the archipelago.

An anonymous informant who claimed to speak on behalf of ETA had warned in the morning at a taxi station in the Basque town of San Sebastian de placement “of one or more devices in Palma de Mallorca,” the Basque Government. [More]

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The income tax if 2010 will bring great news finally materialize the measures the Government has hinted as part of the tax increases. In what we call the 2010 tax return will face unemployment taxes due to our activities in 2009, hence since the tax authorities announce it as income Campaign 2009.

The biggest problem is that most taxpayers wait until it comes time to make the declaration of 2010 to consider how income tax pay less tax and at this point because it’s too late for many. The solution to this problem is to plan the Income Tax of Individuals in advance and carry out investments that offer better overall performance, including tax implications. Taxes are paid one year to another and therefore we do in 2009 is therefore liable for tax in 2010.

It should be left to the last minute all movements in taxation and that at the time of planning the 2010 income tax should be borne in mind the different IPRF current deductions that are within our reach:
Usual housing investment
Contributions to pension plans
Rental residence, both landlord and tenant
Employment income and economic activities
Donations
Birth of children and working mothers
Actions for the protection of Spanish Historical Heritage and World Heritage

Some of these deductions may change with the tax reform plan to the Government, beginning with employment income and economic activities, which frame the famous deduction of 400 euros that it will disappear or be very limited in their application. We must also monitor a possible increase in the rates at which capital income is taxed, which could go up to two percentage points and is 20%. What is not yet known whether the measure is to start in 2009 and over the whole year or only after the adoption of the law.

From Income Tax will keep you informed of all developments, and the Tax calendar 2010, the implementation of Agenda Father and everything related to the application for draft statement of income.

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The chief prosecutor of Iran on Monday accused the three Americans who were detained at the border with Iraq in espionage, it indicates that Tehran intends to hold to their lawsuit.

Clinton (Hillary Rodham Clinton) insists on the release of American tourists. Clinton said that there was no evidence on which to support the charges against them. She also announced the reopening of the request on behalf of the detainees themselves and their families for their release.

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Photos by the disastrous effects of global warming in the Arctic show were finally published. George W. Bush had the pictures strictly hidden from the public.

The satellite images were taken during the last decade. They prove that in recent years during the summer months, the polar ice in the higher latitudes is completely away.
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A U.S. journalist has been able to before President Barack Obama to balmier; he forgot his cell phone on silent mode.

In the cinema with a childish tone, the attention is already embarrassing enough. A U.S. journalist, it is now but succeeded before President Barack Obama to balmier, he forgot his cell phone on silent mode. Moreover, as if that was not already bad enough, the reporter had even a particularly childish tone set. As the President has reacted. Look for yourself.

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After fierce debate, the House of Representatives, Barack Obama’s call: It is called a climate protection law well - with very narrow majority. The Conference Board, thus following the President, a change in climate policy has become a central concern has made. The core of the climate change law is a reduction in emissions by 2020 by 17 percent below 2005 levels. To achieve this, a system should be introduced to the European Union within the game. With a so-called “cap and trade”, companies with higher and lower pollutant emissions among themselves with emission rights trading. “Fundamental change” The law marked a “fundamental change” in the American climate and energy policy was the “most important environmental law” in U.S. history, said the Democratic Members Ed Markey, one of the authors of the law. [More]

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The Senate in Washington has given the green light for another 91.3 billion U.S. dollars in Afghanistan and Iraq, where. But at the same time they refused to President Obama other funds.

86 senators voted on Thursday (local time) in favor, three against. At the same time they refused to U.S. President Barack Obama which he demanded money to closing the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

With the voices of Democrats had the U.S. Senate to release the appropriate funds on Wednesday provisionally denied. The senators requested a detailed plan on the further fate of the 240 remaining inmates.

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The California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is fighting for his political survival. The people will decide on six templates, and hence on its future.

I am pleased to back here in San Francisco to be, “cried the governor in the full hall of the Fairmont Hotels. “After months of budget negotiations, I am pleased to be somewhere. These negotiations were atrocious, worse than the rotation of <Hercules in New York>. “Arnold Schwarzenegger had the laugh on his side, and the allusion to his role of Mr. Universe in his very first film came on. It was one of the few bright moments for a governor, who by his own party completely abandoned and its popularity curve steep downward. [More]

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When asked how in the future with the huge arsenal of nuclear weapons is handled, it seems the U.S. government agreed not to be. President Obama recently had a “world without nuclear weapons” to the long-term objective. In a paper to the Pentagon for the U.S. nuclear strategy which is not the question.

Despite the initiative of U.S. President Barack Obama for a world without nuclear weapons, the Pentagon’s planning of the nuclear deterrent from. This is clear from the preparations for a report on nuclear strategy, as the Defense Department in Washington was reported. [More]

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