LISBON Air Max 97 Sale Online , July 3 (Xinhua) -- Increasing the incomes of households and companies is vital to re-launch the Portuguese economy, the leader of Portugal's main opposition Socialist Party said on Friday.

"We need to make a combined effort, on behalf of companies and the state, to try to improve the income of companies and families. That is the turning point from which we can re-launch the economy," Antonio Costa told journalists on Friday at a meeting in Setubal Air Max 97 Shoes Sale , according to Portuguese Lusa News Agency.

"That involves the area of pay but also decreasing taxes, which have suffocated the middle class," he said.

Costa added that it was necessary to combat poverty and to create financing conditions for companies to enable investment, and that the main priority should be fighting unemployment and job insecurity.

He criticized the main ruling coalition for worsening unemployment and job insecurity and for "attacking public services, especially health and justice."

Portugal has been applying harsh tax hikes and spending cuts to meet the targets set in its 78-billion-euro (about 87 billion U.S. dollars) bailout Air Max 97 Sale , which the country signed in 2011 with its international creditors.

Portugal's unemployment rate stands at over 13 percent, according to recent figures by the country's statistics institute, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging the country to lower its public debt which stands at around 130 percent of GDP.

Portugal is facing general elections in October and the Socialists seem to be running neck-and-neck with the ruling coalition according to recent polls.

While the Socialists push on with their anti-austerity stance, the ruling coalition insists further reforms are needed to get the economy back on track.

The economy is starting to expand again and Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho forecasts the economy to grow 1.6 percent this year.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- A team of Israeli right-wing parliament members on Thursday inaugurated a new neighborhood in a settlement in the Jordan Valley Air VaporMax Flyknit Black Anthracite Shoes Sale , few hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to visit the region.

Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who led the delegation, said Israel will not have strategic depth if it withdraws from the Jordan Valley and the Israel Defense Forces should maintain its presence in the area "for all eternity," Israel Radio reported.

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There are 21 Jewish settlements and reported near 7,000 Jews in the Jordan Valley annexed by Israel amid the 1967 Mideast War.

The status of the Jordan Valley, which is located in the eastern West Bank, is one of the main issues amid the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demands that Israel would deploy security forces in the valley, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas considers such a move as a violation of the Palestinian sovereignty.

The visit came several hours before Kerry's expected visit in Israel for another attempt to get the faltered peace talks back on the track after reported deterioration of the talks and try to create a framework to reach an interim agreement between both parties the peace talks expire in April.

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RAMALLAH Men's Air VaporMax Laceless Shoes Pure Platinum White Sale , Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that the Jordan Valley, part of the occupied West Bank, will remain under the Palestinian sovereignty.

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RAMALLAH, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday night that the Palestinians are committed to the peace talks with Israel for nine months.

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BRUSSELS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Council of the European Union (EU) on Thursday broadened a sanction list targeting the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in response to the Northeast Asian country's ongoing test-launch of ballistic missiles.

The Council of the EU said in a statement that it has added nine persons and four entities, including the state-owned Foreign Trade Bank, to a blacklist in line with a new resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Saturday slapping new economic sanctions on the DPRK over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

Following the Council's decision, the blacklist now includes 62 persons and 50 entities subject to an asset freeze and travel restrictions in the EU.

The broadened list came amid an escalating row between the DPRK and the United States Off-White x Vapormax Shoes Black White Sale , as Pyongyong warned of making preemptive strikes against the U.S. military base of Guam in the Pacific after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the DPRK with "fire and fury like the world has never seen."

The DPRK military has said that its plan to strike Guam with intermediate missiles will be ready by mid-August and its implementation will depend on a decision by top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, the Korean Central News Agency said Thursday.

Days before the war of words, the UNSC, in an exceptional session on Saturday, unanimously adopted the Resolution 2371 (2017) to impose new sanctions on the DPRK for ignoring previous resolutions and its recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests.

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