The strike follows clashes between pro-Telangana activists and police in the state capital Hyderabad on Sunday.

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Facetiousness aside, there is one crosscutting consensus emerging about Cyprus, whether the authors are on the left and right, pro-bailout or pro-market: Cyprus has in effect moved out of the Eurozone because its new capital controls give the Euro a different value, and a different meaning, within Cyprus.

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One of its cameramen in Benghazi, a Qatari national, was killed earlier this month by pro-Qaddafi gunmen, and an Al Jazeera crew remains in detention in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

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Mr Abbas for his part pointedly hosted a new pro-peace organisation of Israeli businessmen and public figures in Ramallah, the Palestinians' administrative capital, on April 28th, the day after the reconciliation agreement was announced.

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So, kickstarting the economy into long-term sustained growth with pro-growth tax policy, reduced government waste and other economic incentives will generate more revenue than will increasing capital gains taxes, which would discourage such economic growth.

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However, they are aware that many of their treatments are still beyond the reach of Kenya's poor and so they have created a charitable arm to the company that provides "pro-bono treatments for patients in desperate need" and runs eye tests in the slum areas of the capital, Nairobi.

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Instead of taxes and redistribution, the reformed programs rely on modern capital, labor and insurance markets, highly productive savings and investment, and highly effective, pro-growth market incentives.

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