PORT LOUIS vans old skool blanche , Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- A Canadian national has been charged at the Mauritius court for being in possession of close to 1 kg of heroine in his bags, local media reported on Monday.

If found guilty, David Allan Stockhall risks being imprisoned for up to 60 years in the Indian Ocean island country in accordance with the Mauritius Dangerous Drugs Act.

Stockhall was arrested in July 2009 for the illegal possession of 989.6 grams of heroine with a market value of 500,000 U.S. dollars.

When questioned by the police, he said he was not aware of the presence of the drugs in his bags and that he was delivering a parcel to a Mauritian national.

An investigation by the police to try and track down his local contacts did not have any results.

The case was heard on Thursday in a Port Louis court. The defense lawyer told the presiding judge that the office of the public prosecutor had received communication indicating the willingness of the accused to facilitate the police investigations to track down the local contacts.

He is expected to be interrogated by the anti-drugs detectives soon and the case will be mentioned again before the judge on Oct. 23.

Under the Mauritius law vans old skool noir femme pas cher , any one found in possession of drugs valued at more than 33,000 dollars should be considered as a drug trafficker, and risks being imprisoned for close to 60 years.

However, the final decision in this case lies with the judge.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government budget deficit narrowed in November vans old skool noir femme , as revenues increased and spending fell, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

The budget deficit was 56.8 billion U.S. dollars in November, down 58 percent from a deficit of 135.2 billion dollars a year earlier.

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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office forecast in a report in August that the deficit would total 4,690 billion dollars in the fiscal year 2015, or 2.6 percent of the gross domestic product, significantly lower than a record high of 10 percent in 2009.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy in the third quarter grew at its fastest pace in more than a decade vans old skool gris et noir , supported by robust consumer spending and business investment.

U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 5 percent in the third quarter, the U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday in its final estimate, a remarkable revision from the second estimate of 3.9 percent.

It marked the strongest growth pace for the world's largest economy since the third quarter of 2003. The strong upward revision reflected the strong performance of personal consumption expenditures and nonresidential fixed investment.

Personal consumption, which accounts for about 70 percent of the U.S. economy, grew 3.2 percent vans old skool gris , compared with an increase of 2. 5 percent in the second quarter. Exports increased 4.5 percent, slower than an increase of 11.1 percent in the previous quarter.

Nonresidential fixed investment increased 8.9 percent, down from 9.7 percent in the second quarter but up from the previous estimate of 7.1 percent. Residential fixed investment increased 3. 2 percent, down from 8.8 percent in the previous quarter.

After experiencing an unexpected contraction in the first quarter, the U.S. economy has regained robust growth momentum. The U.S. GDP grew at an annual pace of 4.6 percent in the second quarter vans old skool femme pas cher , meaning it has now experienced the two strongest back-to- back quarters of growth since 2003.

"The strong GDP growth is consistent with a broad range of other indicators showing improvement in the labor market and increasing domestic energy security," Jason Furman, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, said in a statement on Tuesday.

By November, the country has already added more jobs in 2014 than in any full calendar year since the late 1990s. Data for the recent months indicated the economy's resilience against the backdrop of a weakening global economy.

According to the latest projections by the Federal Reserve vans old skool pas cher , the U.S. economy will expand at 2.3-2.4 percent this year, higher than its September's forecast of 2-2.2 percent. It maintained its forecast for 2015 GDP growth unchanged at 2.6-3 percent. Considering the improvements in the labor market, the central bank expected the unemployment rate to drop to 5.8 percent this year and further to 5.2-5.3 percent in 2015, both lower than its September's projections.

In view of lower energy prices, the Fed sharply cut its inflation projections. It expected the price index for personal consumption expenditures to reach 1.2-1.3 percent this year chaussure vans soldes pas cher , lower than its September forecast of 1.5-1.7 percent. In 2015, the inflation rate will stay around 1-1.6 percent.

Fed chair Janet Yellen said at a recent press conference that lower energy prices were positive to the U.S. economy, as lower energy prices would boost household demand and act like tax cuts for families.

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Economists widely believe a rapidly strengthening labor market and lower gasoline prices should provide the economy with sufficient momentum in 2015 and keep the Fed on course to start raising interest rates by the middle of next year.

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