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Athens announced as host city for Europe’s largest coffee trade showAthens is set to host the next World of Coffee show, Europe’s largest annual specialty coffee trade show according to an announcement by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA).According to the organisers, the event will take place June 24-26, 2021 in partnership with the Athens Metropolitan Expo.
Civil partnerships: First mixed-sex unions to take placeThousands of heterosexual couples in England and Wales are expected to enter into civil partnerships later today.The unions will take place after a long legal battle against the law, which had only permitted same-sex couples to become civil partners.The partnerships offer almost identical rights as marriage, including property, inheritance and tax entitlements.Approximately 84,000 mixed-sex couples could become civil partners next year, the government has estimated.The changes come after heterosexual couple Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan won their legal bid at the Supreme Court in 2018 for the right to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.As a result, rules were changed to extend civil partnerships - available to same-sex couples since 2005 - to everyone.The government changed the law, opening such a union to the majority of the UK's 3.3 million co-habiting heterosexual couples.Many believe they are already protected by so-called "common law marriages", but these do not exist.As a result, they do not enjoy the same property, inheritance and tax entitlements as married couples and civil partners.The government estimates as many as 84,000 mixed sex couples could become civil partners this year, giving them greater rights and protections within their relationships, without having to get married.
Mayor of Acharnes sends staff to feed the straysMayor of Acharnes, Spyros Vrettos and Deputy Mayor Angelos Arabatzis gave thought to the stray animals and sent council staff to feed them. Staff crews from Acharnes municipality fed the strays because of the low temperatures, said the council. Animal loving staff visited various areas to leave food for the strays.
Demanding rule for online payments to start applyingTaxpayers will need to remember to use their credit and debit cards from the start of the new year, as they will need to make online payments amounting to at least 30 percent of their income over the 366 days of 2020, or face a hefty fine.
Facebook is ‘the new cigarettes for our society’, says tech CEOSalesforce boss Marc Benioff says tech giant is ‘addictive, not good for you and after your kids’
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