Day: November 27, 2017

Egypt reeling from attack on mosque in Sinai that killed 305

Egypt reeling from attack on mosque in Sinai that killed 305

(Worthy News) – Egypt was reeling Sunday from the horrific militant attack on a mosque in northern Sinai that killed 305 people two days earlier — the deadliest assault by Islamic extremists in its modern history and a grim milestone in a long-running fight against the insurgency led by an Islamic State affiliate.

Survivors and Egypt’s top prosecutor have given accounts of the massacre that unfolded as more than two dozen assailants, carrying a black IS banner, unleashed gunfire and explosions during Friday prayers at the Al-Rawdah Mosque in a sleepy village by the same name near the small town of Bir al-Abd.

The attackers arrived in five SUVs, took positions across from the mosque’s door and windows, and just as the imam was about to deliver his sermon from the pulpit, they opened fire and tossed grenades at the estimated 500 people inside. [ Source: Chicago Tribune (Read More…) ]

Analysis: Senate Tax Plan Will Reduce Taxes for Most Taxpayers, Gives Biggest Cuts to Moderate-Income Families

(Worthy News) – The Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce taxes for most households and will give the biggest cuts to those with moderate incomes and those with children, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.

“To help provide a sense of how the Senate’s amended version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of nine example households,” the foundation states. “Our results indicate a reduction in tax liability for every scenario we modeled, with some of the largest cuts accruing to moderate-income families with children.”

The foundation says that each type of family it scored had realistic characteristics so it could show how the bill’s individual income tax provisions would impact various types of families with different incomes. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

Analysis: Senate Tax Plan Will Reduce Taxes for Most Taxpayers, Gives Biggest Cuts to Moderate-Income Families

(Worthy News) – The Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce taxes for most households and will give the biggest cuts to those with moderate incomes and those with children, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.

“To help provide a sense of how the Senate’s amended version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of nine example households,” the foundation states. “Our results indicate a reduction in tax liability for every scenario we modeled, with some of the largest cuts accruing to moderate-income families with children.”

The foundation says that each type of family it scored had realistic characteristics so it could show how the bill’s individual income tax provisions would impact various types of families with different incomes. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

Analysis: Senate Tax Plan Will Reduce Taxes for Most Taxpayers, Gives Biggest Cuts to Moderate-Income Families

(Worthy News) – The Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce taxes for most households and will give the biggest cuts to those with moderate incomes and those with children, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.

“To help provide a sense of how the Senate’s amended version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of nine example households,” the foundation states. “Our results indicate a reduction in tax liability for every scenario we modeled, with some of the largest cuts accruing to moderate-income families with children.”

The foundation says that each type of family it scored had realistic characteristics so it could show how the bill’s individual income tax provisions would impact various types of families with different incomes. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

Analysis: Senate Tax Plan Will Reduce Taxes for Most Taxpayers, Gives Biggest Cuts to Moderate-Income Families

(Worthy News) – The Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce taxes for most households and will give the biggest cuts to those with moderate incomes and those with children, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.

“To help provide a sense of how the Senate’s amended version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of nine example households,” the foundation states. “Our results indicate a reduction in tax liability for every scenario we modeled, with some of the largest cuts accruing to moderate-income families with children.”

The foundation says that each type of family it scored had realistic characteristics so it could show how the bill’s individual income tax provisions would impact various types of families with different incomes. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

Analysis: Senate Tax Plan Will Reduce Taxes for Most Taxpayers, Gives Biggest Cuts to Moderate-Income Families

(Worthy News) – The Senate’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce taxes for most households and will give the biggest cuts to those with moderate incomes and those with children, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation.

“To help provide a sense of how the Senate’s amended version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of nine example households,” the foundation states. “Our results indicate a reduction in tax liability for every scenario we modeled, with some of the largest cuts accruing to moderate-income families with children.”

The foundation says that each type of family it scored had realistic characteristics so it could show how the bill’s individual income tax provisions would impact various types of families with different incomes. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

Iran army chief vows next war will see ‘eradication’ of Israel

Iran army chief vows next war will see ‘eradication’ of Israel

(Worthy News) – Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), issued new threats against Israel on Thursday, vowing that any future conflict will be the Jewish state’s last.

“It is a proven claim that today we say any new war will lead to the eradication of the Zionist regime,” said Jafari at a Tehran press conference, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency.

Jafari also told reporters that Lebanon is Israel’s primary target today and that “resistance” experienced by Israel in previous conflicts with Iran-backed Hezbollah and Hamas was minor in comparison to their current capabilities. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

Iran: Christian convert loses appeal against 10-year sentence for ‘missionary activities’

Iran: Christian convert loses appeal against 10-year sentence for ‘missionary activities’

(Worthy News) – An Iranian convert to Christianity has had his 10-year prison sentence upheld after losing his appeal.

Naser Navard Gol-Tapeh was sentenced in May alongside three Azerbaijanis. All four men were given 10-year sentences for “missionary activities” and “actions against national security” in Iran.

However, the three Azerbaijanis – Eldar Gurbanov, Yusif Farhadov and Bahram Nasibov – were allowed to leave Iran in November 2016 and are unlikely to be forced to return, despite their representatives also failing to overturn their verdicts during the 12 November hearing, World Watch Monitor understands. [ Source: World Watch Monitor (Read More…) ]

Saudi prince vows new Islamic alliance ‘will wipe out terrorists from earth’

Saudi prince vows new Islamic alliance ‘will wipe out terrorists from earth’

(Worthy News) – Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince vowed to “pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the earth” as officials from 40 Muslim countries gathered Sunday in the first meeting of an Islamic counter-terrorism alliance.

“In past years, terrorism has been functioning in all of our countries … with no coordination” among national authorities, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also the Saudi defence minister, said in his keynote speech at the gathering in Riyadh.

“This ends today, with this alliance.” [ Source: Times of India (Read More…) ]