Newtown Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia has refused to release death certificates requested for the 26 victims of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and argues that information on death certificates can be misused, such as by identity thieves. Two bills on the topic are before the Legislature.
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Preparations for the troika’s return to Athens continued on Friday, when Prime Minister Antonis Samaras held a fresh round of talks with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras as the government appeared to accept it would have to continue levying an emergency property tax via electricity bills.
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Developers are urged to make it less easy for a child to spend hundreds on ‘in-app’ purchases. (And why would they do that?)
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On Wednesday, Greece’s Supreme Court annulled the ban of a first instance Athens court that had ruled “the collection of emergency property tax through electricity bills was illegal.”
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City traders could face jail over allegations that a price-fixing racket has driven up winter gas bills for millions, ministers warned yesterday. Industry whistleblowers claim ‘bent’ City traders are cashing in on a speculative racket to fix wholesale prices in the £300billion gas market.
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German households are set to face higher power prices in the coming year, thanks to an increase in the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) surcharge – it is expected to rise by about 50 percent, a report said Tuesday.
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David Gauke claimed that making small cash payments was as bad as tax avoidance, which ministers have already called ‘morally repugnant’.
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Between 2006 and 2011, the price of electricity for Spanish consumers rose 69.9 percent, according to Eurostat figures. Meanwhile, in the 27 European Union countries, the average rise over the same period was 19.9 percent.
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Greek power prices double due to lower imports, hot weather
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Jordan, which touts itself as a top destination in the Arab world for medical care, is demanding that Tripoli pay up more than 0 million in medical and hotel bills.
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