Alternative Tax Hits Home The Hardest
A growing number of taxpayers across the region have been finding themselves paying the alternative minimum tax....
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World Briefing | Asia: India: Leopards On Parole
The authorities plan to release 47 leopards into the wild with electromagnetic chips planted in their tails, but will haul them back to captivity if they attack people. The leopards were caught in 200...
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Fortress Shares Rise 70 Percent In Wall Street Debut
After raising $634 million in last night’s offering, a hedge fund gets a warm reception in its first minutes of trading....
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Deadly Blast At Eatery In Islamabad
A bomb exploded in the back garden of an Italian restaurant popular with foreigners in Pakistan’s capital Saturday night, killing two people and wounding nine, police said....
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Legal Questions Remain For Freed Scholar In Iran
Haleh Esfandiari’s lawyer says that Iranian authorities still hold the scholar’s passport, but that by Iranian law, she should be permitted to leave Iran....
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