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• Avoid Hidden Tax Triggers When Planning for Retirement
• Papandreou Backs Action to Enforce Libya Truce
• Roma Death Prompts Retaliatory Attack
• Young Man Arrested for Migrant Trafficking
• Police Release Photos, Fake Names Used by Terror Group
• Protests over Fares and Landfill Site
• Turkish Elections a Deadline for Exploratory Talks, Droutsas Says
• “We Are Now Entering the Heart of the Problems”
• Cyprus Seminar by Dumbarton Oaks Museum
• Economist Conference Discusses Prospects for Investments in Cyprus

Avoid Hidden Tax Triggers When Planning for Retirement Posted: By Jill Perlin Tax season is upon us — but before you break out that box of old receipts in search of every last deduction, think about whether you’re taking advantage of all the tax benefits associated with saving for retirement. Your nest egg can generally be divided into three categories, at least from a [...]

Papandreou Backs Action to Enforce Libya Truce Posted: Paris (ANA-MPA – O. Tsipira) The international community will move to enforce the UN Security Council’s decisions for Libya, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said here on Saturday after attending a meeting of European, U.S. and Arab leaders on Libya hosted by France. “Today’s meeting showed the determination of the international community to enforce the [...]

Roma Death Prompts Retaliatory Attack Posted: Athens.- The accidental death of a Roma gypsy scavenging among rubbish at the Ano Liossia landfill on Saturday prompted an angry retaliatory attack by other groups of Roma, who attacked the landfill, set fires and torched three machines. The man was seriously injured when he was accidentally swept away by a refuse compressor and died [...]

Young Man Arrested for Migrant Trafficking Posted: Athens.- A 22-year-old man was arrested by police in Thessaloniki on charges of migrant-trafficking after he was caught carrying eight illegal migrants, including two minors, in a car that he was driving. The vehicle was sighted and placed under surveillance by police seeking migrant traffickers on Friday night, while further investigation revealed that the car [...]

Police Release Photos, Fake Names Used by Terror Group Posted: Athens.- The Greek police have released 16 photographs of the five suspected members of the terror group “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” recently arrested in Volos and Kifissia, as well as the names used by the group in various fake documents, appealing to members of the public to come forth with any information concerning these. [...]

Protests over Fares and Landfill Site Posted: Athens.- The municipality of Patras and local residents set up road blocks at the Rio road tolls on Saturday, demanding a solution to the problems arising with the city’s overburdened landfill site. Further north in Pella and Florina, another protest was underway by local residents, environmental groups and left-wing movements against hikes in public transport [...]

Turkish Elections a Deadline for Exploratory Talks, Droutsas Says Posted: Athens.- The next general elections in Turkey marked the deadline for wrapping up exploratory talks with Greece, Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said in an interview due to appear in the Sunday edition of the newspaper “Kathimerini”. In this, Droutsas indicates that the exploratory talks cannot continue indefinitely and that after the elections, Ankara will have [...]

“We Are Now Entering the Heart of the Problems” Posted: Athens.- Greece is now entering the heart of the country’s problems and going through the “most difficult period politically,” Prime Minister George Papandreou said during a cabinet meeting focusing on issues relating to the upcoming European Union summit on March 25 and government planning. During the meeting held on Friday afternoon, he also appeared confident [...]

Cyprus Seminar by Dumbarton Oaks Museum Posted: Washington, DC April 1, 2011 In the framework of the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Cyprus and in association with the exhibition, “Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations”, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus would like to invite you to a Seminar organized by the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in [...]

Economist Conference Discusses Prospects for Investments in Cyprus Posted: Nicosia.-  (CNA) – Prospects to attract investments in Cyprus and associated problems were the focus of discussion at the Economist conference, which concluded here on Friday under the title "Leadership strategy for Cyprus's unity and prosperity". All speakers underlined that the financial crisis offers opportunities for structural reforms and changes in fields such as tourism [...]

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