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...agreed on the property tax rate for fiscal year 2009 last night. More than 58 percent of residential property owners will see either no change or an increase of fewer than $100 in their tax bill, while 25 percent will experience a decrease in their property taxes, City Manager Robert W. Healy told the Council last night. For the most part, the small percentage of residents to pay increases of over $500 have recently renovated their homes, thus increasing their value, Healy said. At the May budget meetings, Healy had said that taxes would likely go up to accommodate...
...Pakistani man living and working in New York, was arrested on credit card fraud charges after the Sept. 11 attacks. While in custody in the maximum security section of Metropolitan Detention Center, Iqbal allegedly received "gross mistreatment." After being deported, he filed suit against the prison and FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, claiming multiple civil rights violations including that the officials "designed, or at least approved of, a policy of segregating Arab and Muslim detainees from the general prison population until individually cleared of suspicion by the FBI." The U.S. District Court of New York...
...This has been a long and careful process," U.S. Ambassador Robert Tuttle said in a statement yesterday. "We looked at all of our options, including renovation of our current building in Grosvenor Square. In the end, we realized that the goal of a modern, secure and environmentally sustainable embassy could best be met by constructing a new facility...
...will be sorry to see the U.S. embassy leave as the current security arrangements we negotiated are working well," said Robert Davis, deputy leader of the Westminster City Council. "But we understand their desire to be in a more secure compound...
...official figure. Japan's trade with Africa, about $25 billion, is about one third of China's trade with the continent. Tokyo's move to expand JICA can be seen then as "partly China-driven, since Japan thinks they're competing with China for Africa and for resources," says Robert Dujarric, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University. "And this is partly U.S.-driven, since the U.S. knows that Japan is limited in terms of what it can do in the military field, so they should do something in the aid field...