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☆ There is still time to reduce your tax bill or boost your refund before year-end. Here are some moves to consider, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Vesna Andjic | E+ | Getty ImagesWith roughly one month left in 2023, there's still time to reduce your tax bill or boost your refund, experts say. In 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubled the standard deduction, slashing the number of filers who itemized. Make the most of your tax bracketBefore completing a year-end strategy that adds to your income, you should see if you can afford to "run up the income tax brackets," Dietz said. Pretax IRA contributions : You can still make up to $6,500 in pretax IRA contributions ($7,500 for age 50 and older) for 2023, which may offer a deduction. However, you need to check IRA tax break eligibility first.

Persons: Vesna Andjic, there's, Akeiva Ellis, deferrals, Ellis, Robert Dietz, Dietz, It's, Louise Cochrane Organizations: Vanguard, Taxpayers, Bernstein Private Wealth Management, — Locations: Boston, Minneapolis, Alameda , California

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Police in Montenegro said Tuesday they have launched an investigation after an underground tunnel was discovered linking an apartment building with a nearby court depot holding seized drugs and other crime evidence, officials said Tuesday. It remains unclear why the tunnel was dug, officials said, adding that nothing appeared to have been taken away. The court depot contains evidence in current cases but also large amounts of confiscated drugs, officials said. “This was a well-planned and organized action, which has been prepared for months and which resembles action movies,” said Adzic, adding that the apartment from where the underground tunnel started was leased a few months ago. The tunnel hole in the Montenegrin court building was found in a “well-hidden” place inside the depot, said the court President Boris Savic.

Persons: Filip Adzic, ”, Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman, Boris Savic, “, ” Savic, Vesna Medenica Organizations: — Police, Higher, NATO, European Union Locations: PODGORICA, Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro's, Western Europe, Montenegrin

"We started making a film on the last war in Europe and then a new war broke out," Sicin-Sain told reporters. "It's about the resilience of all of us and that's a wonderful thing to put out into the world, particularly now," Damon told Reuters. His production company is in the early stages of researching a film about the war in Ukraine, he added. Footage of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic - now serving a life sentence for genocide - denying war crimes makes the parallels with today's war inescapable. Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Additional reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by David HolmesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Russia has added Meta to a list of 'extremist' and 'terrorist' organizations, a report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia has added Meta to its list of extremist and terrorist organizations, per Interfax. It means Meta services, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, are expected to be cut off in the country. Russia asked in March for Meta to be labeled as an "extremist organization." Vesna, the Russian anti-war movement, was also put on the list of organizations involved in terrorism and extremism on Tuesday, per Interfax. A court in Moscow then rejected Meta's appeal after it was found guilty of "extremist activity" in Russia, Reuters reported, citing Tass.

☆ Complaints about Russia's chaotic mobilization grow
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Kevin Liffey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"It has been announced that privates can be recruited up to the age of 35. Reports have surfaced across Russia of men with no military experience or past draft age suddenly receiving call-up papers. "Some (recruiters) hand over the call-up papers at 2 a.m., as if they think we're all draft dodgers," he said. There has been a particular outcry among ethnic minorities in remote, economically deprived areas in Siberia, where Russia's professional armed forces have long recruited disproportionately. The interior ministry of the Russian region of North Ossetia advised people not to try to leave the country for Georgia at the Verkhny Lars frontier post, where it said 2,300 cars were waiting to cross.

☆ Explainer: What does Vladimir Putin's 'partial' mobilisation mean for Russia's military machine?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

The exact number of mobilised reservists in Ukraine is classified but official pronouncements suggest it is at least 400,000. * The immediate call-up of 300,000 military reservists who have previously served in the Russian army and have combat experience or specialised military skills. Western military analysts forecast it will therefore be several months before they see action. According to a copy of the legislation, seen by Reuters, voluntary surrender would become a crime for Russian military personnel punishable by 10 years in prison. * Western military analysts are divided on whether partial mobilisation is too little too late to alter the course of the war in Moscow's favour.

☆ Russian opposition calls for protests against Putin's 'criminal war'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Evgenia NovozheninaTBILISI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia's opposition on Wednesday called for protests against President Vladimir Putin after he ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists for what Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny said was a failing criminal war. read moreNavalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader who is currently in prison, said Putin was sending more Russians to their death for a failing war. Russia's anti-war groups called for street protests against the mobilisation order. "This means that thousands of Russian men - our fathers, brothers and husbands - will be thrown into the meat grinder of war," the Vesna anti-war coalition said. In the days after the start of the war, riot police cracked down on nightly street protests detaining at least 16,000 protesters, according to the OVD-Info rights group.

☆ Many Russians seek ways out as call-up orders arrive
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Caleb Davis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

In St Petersburg, Pavel Chikov said recruitment offices had handed packs of conscription papers to homeowners' associations. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the army was calling up people with experience of service and military "specialists" to fight in Ukraine. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterBut there was little clarity as to who these would be. In the city of Kursk, one woman married to a soldier said: "They're not letting people out of Kursk. read moreFor now, Shoigu said Russia would not call a general mobilisation, nor recruit students or send current conscripts to fight in Ukraine.

☆ Cele 5% ale lui Platon; Scandalul de la Moldasig ia amploare și scoate la iveală principalele persoane implicate
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-14 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +6 min

Moldasig a fost creată în 2002 de trei întreprinderi de stat: Banca de Economii, Calea Ferată și Poșta Moldovei. În 2016, în momentul în care Platon a fost arestat în dosarul furtului miliardului, acesta controla 10 companii acționare la Moldasig. Decizia comisiei, prin care Platon a rămas fără controlul asupra Moldasig, a fost luată în scurt timp. Pe parcurs s-a aflat că un acționar care deține oficial 4,99% din acțiuni a ajuns să controleze 65% din pachet. Nu, această hotărare nu a fost legală, Această hotarare emisă de judecătoarea Olesea Turcan a fost emisă contrar legii”, susține și deputatul Dumitru Alaiba.

Persons: Veaceslav Platon, Platon, Plahotniuc, Totul, Platon . Moldasig, Veaceslav Ioniță, CNPF, Dumneaei, Platon Veaceslav, Ștefan Gligor, judecătoarea, Turcan, Dumitru Alaiba, Victor Munteanu, Țurcan, judecătoarei Turcan Organizations: VESNA Locations: Moldovei, Moldasig, Republica Moldova, Moldova, raider, CEDO, procuratura

☆ "Marşul vecinilor" în Belarus. Mii de protestatari au ieşit în stradă
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-30 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: 1 min

Mii de protestatari belaruşi au participat duminică la acțiunea „Marșul vecinilor”. Oamenii se adunau în curțile blocurilor, se alăturau altor grupuri și porneau în marș spre centrul capitalei Minsk. Ca de obicei, au fost închise unele stații de metrou, iar internetul mobil a fost deconectat. Acțiuni de protest similare au avut loc și în alte orașe din Belarus, precum Grodno, Brest și Dzerjinsk. Potrivit autorităţilor, au fost reținute în jur de 250 de persoane, însă Centrul pentru drepturile omului ”Vesna” anunță că peste 400 de persoane au fost duse la poliție, cele mai multe la Minsk.

Locations: Minsk, Belarus, Grodno, Brest

☆ Peste 200 de noi rețineri în urma protestelor, de duminică, din Belarus - Reuters
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-23 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Poliția din Belarus a reținut duminică peste 200 de persoane în Minsk în ultimele luni de proteste anti-guvernamentale de la alegerile prezidențiale disputate din august, au declarat activiștii pentru drepturile omului, relatează Reuters. Mii de oameni au ieșit pe străzile capitalei bieloruse, iar poliția a folosit grenade asomatoare pentru a dispersa mulțimea, au raportat mai multe instituții de presă din Belarus. Grupul pentru drepturile Vesna-96 a declarat că până acum 205 de persoane au fost reținute. El neagă frauda electorală și a refuzat să demisioneze. Ministerul deIinterne a respins acuzațiile pentru moartea lui Bondarenko, spunând că a fost ucis într-o luptă cu civilii.

Persons: Reuters, Alexander Lukashenko, Bondarenko Organizations: Ministerul, Interne Locations: Belarus, Minsk, bieloruse, Roman

☆ Minsk: Focuri și grenade împotriva participanților la un marș spre locul unde regimul Stalin a executat o groază de oameni
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-02 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

De asemenea, în timpul manifestației de duminică serviciul de date mobile a fost oprit temporar în Minsk și câteva staţii de metrou au fost închise. Susținătorii opoziției din Belarus cer demisia liderului de la Minsk și vor ca puterea să fie preluată de principala adversară a acestuia, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, refugiată, în prezent, în Lituania. Tikhanovskaya a denunțat fraudarea masivă a votului din 9 august, fiind susținută de liderii occidentali care nu au recunoscut rezultatul alegerilor prezidențiale. În urmă cu câteva zile Lukașenko a numit un nou ministru al Internelor și șef al poliției din Minsk și a declarat că va renunța la funcție ”doar în visele voastre”. În tot acest context, Belarusul a închis în această săptămână granițele terestre cu statele UE – Polonia, Lituania și Letonia –, precum și cu Ucraina, autoritățile precizând că decizia a fost luată în contextul pandemiei de coronavirus.

Persons: Lukașenko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Tikhanovskaya, Alexandr Lukașenko Organizations: Internelor, Lituania și Letonia Locations: Minsk, Belarus, Europei, Lituania, Belarusul, UE, Polonia, Letonia, Ucraina

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