Tim Cook warns Congress that he would refuse to repatriate 0bn stashed offshore unless US severely reduced its 35% tax rate
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On Friday, former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, said that America’s tax system is “voluntary.”
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An Israeli defense official says the head of the American CIA spy agency has made an unannounced visit to Israel. The official says CIA chief John Brennan met Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. He did not disclose other details.
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A Russian intelligence agency Friday publicly identified an individual it claims was the Moscow station chief of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as of late 2011 — a move widely seen as a breach of protocol in the intelligence community.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Dutch development minister Albert Gerard Koenders as U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African country.
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Tony Hayward, who was CEO of BP during the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will become interim chairman of GlencoreXstrata
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Defected KGB general Kalugin said he believed Russia designed the scandal in order to heighten general fear about Americans inside the country, while stepping up pressure on the US as Moscow and Washington tussle over Syria.
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The establishment of ECB supervision is set to become a prerequisite for banks to receive direct loans from the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone bailout fund. All 17 member states have endorsed ECB’s regulatory role, but fear power may corrupt.
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A nationwide ammunition shortage has police departments across the country counting their bullets. It’s no different in Proctor, where the Chief says he was told he’d have to wait months, even a year to get more ammo.
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A former chief prosecutor for the controversial American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay has called for the prison to be closed, launching an online petition that has gathered some 60,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.
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