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More than 80% of women aged 25-39 actively participate in labour force - Minister Cardona
Economy Minister Chris Cardona has revealed that the female labour force participation rate has exceeded that of 80 per cent for women aged between 25 and 39.Labour force participation refers to the proportion of a population that is within working age, and can be employed or unemployed, but are actively ...
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49 people caught using false documents since start of 2016
49 persons were caught entering Malta with false documents since the start of 2016, with 14 people being caught while Schengen was temporarily closed, the Police have confirmed with The Malta Independent.The numbers show that 28% of people using false documents were caught during a 20-day period when Schengen was ...
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Malta could be one of Brexit's biggest losers, KPMG report finds
Malta may be one of the big losers from Brexit if this leads to poor economic relations between the UK and the EU, new research by KPMG suggests. KPMG’s chief economist Yael Selfin looked at the EU27 countries most impacted from any future restrictions on trade in goods, services and the ...
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Turkish Cypriot leader refuses to attend talks
Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı has refused to attend a scheduled leaders’ meeting on Feb. 23 on the grounds that Greek Cyprus has done nothing to repeal a recent law to permit schools to mark a vote to unify the island with Greece
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Turkish FM to visit Turkish Cyprus amid crisis in peace talks
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will visit Turkish Cyprus on Feb. 20-21, as peace talks on the divided island hit a snag following the Greek Cypriot Parliament’s decision to celebrate a 1950 referendum aimed at unification with Greece
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Turkey slams Greek Cyprus’ Enosis move
Turkey has rebuked Greek Cyprus’ recent decision to introduce the commemoration of “Enosis” in Greek Cypriot public schools, noting that the decision made by a “racist, far-right,” party would not contribute to ongoing efforts to create a new partnership between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.
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Once-conservative Malta leaps ahead on LGBT rights
At age 24, Alex Mangion became Malta's first transgender politician when he won a local office on the conservative Nationalists' ticket, a striking combination in a country that until recently had been a last bastion in western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church.The Nationalist Party recruited Mangion to ...
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April hopes for a Cyprus deal
Efforts are underway to fix a second international meeting on Cyprus, sometime between March 5 and 10. Like the first inconclusive meeting, the two communal leaders of Cyprus and the foreign ministers of the three guarantor powers, Turkey, Greece and Britain, are expected to sit around the table, with the ...
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Thousands of civilians risk losing access to basic necessities as fighting escalates in Eastern Ukraine
Source: UN Security Council Country: Ukraine, WorldThe recent dangerous uptick in fighting seen in eastern Ukraine has left hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk of losing all access to water, heat and electricity, the Security Council heard on 2 February.SC/12704 SECURITY COUNCIL 7876TH MEETING (PM) Members hear from political, humanitarian affairs chiefs, head ...
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Council of Europe calls for states to invest in alternatives to migrant detention
Source: Council of Europe Country: WorldThe Council of Europe has outlined a five step plan that enables European states to work towards the abolition of migrant detention and develop effective alternatives.The use of migrant detention across Europe, whether for the purpose of stopping asylum seekers and other migrants entering a country ...
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Libya launches huge investigation into oil smuggling to Malta, Italy, Greece and Cyprus
Yet again Malta is being mentioned in connection with oil smuggling from Libya as the North African country has just launched the biggest anti-corruption probe since the fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011. The Libya Herald reported yesterday that warrants for the arrest of a number of government ministers ...
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Theresa May ha incontrato il presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ad Ankara
Theresa May ha incontrato il presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ad Ankara. La premier britannica è arrivata nella capitale turca il 28 gennaio dagli Stati Uniti, dove ha incontrato il presidente Donald Trump. Il presidente turco ha annunciato che mira ad aumentare il volume degli scambi tra Turchia e Regno ...
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Air Malta to issue early retirement schemes for pilots and cabin crew
Malta's ailing national airline, Air Malta, is preparing its final restructuring programme to present to the European Commission in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the airline from liquidation following the failed attempt to bring in new cash from Etihad through its investment in Alitalia.Sources within the government confirmed to The ...
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Turkey’s Erdoğan, British PM discuss boosting trade relations, Syria, Cyprus in Ankara
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted British Prime Minister Theresa May in Ankara on Jan. 28 in the latter’s first visit to Turkey after she took office and the two leaders discussed a variety of issues extending from trade relations to advanced joint operations against terror in Syria
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Theresa May ha incontrato il presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ad Ankara
Theresa May ha incontrato il presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ad Ankara. La premier britannica è arrivata nella capitale turca dagli Stati Uniti, dove ha incontrato il presidente Donald Trump. Il presidente turco ha annunciato che mira ad aumentare il volume degli scambi tra Turchia e Regno Unito da 15.6 ...
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Air Malta: Decisions aimed at saving jobs, not Robert Arrigo’s hotels - minister, PN MP replies
Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis yesterday slammed Opposition MP Robert Arrigo, saying that decisions at Air Malta were being taken to save jobs, not the PN parliamentarian’s business interests.Mr Arrigo, who is the PN’s spokesperson on small businesses and the self-employed, is a hotelier and also owns a travel agency. ...
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Britain's PM Theresa May in Turkey for talks with Erdogan
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a day after a friendly meeting in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump.May flew overnight to Ankara by RAF Voyager jet from the U.S., where she and Trump proclaimed a new chapter in the trans-Atlantic "special relationship."She ...
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Business: Kenya Civil Aviation Authority grants licences to several airlines
“The airline had applied for an inclusive tour charter on the Warsaw/Larnaca /Mombasa route and vice versa,'' KCAA Acting Director General Mugambi M'nchebere said. The licence includes two frequencies per week and the airline will deploy a Boeing 738 based in Warsaw on the route to Mombasa.
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Business: Why SGR is a tiny part in China's game plan to become superpower
“The airline had applied for an inclusive tour charter on the Warsaw/Larnaca /Mombasa route and vice versa,'' KCAA Acting Director General Mugambi M'nchebere said. The licence includes two frequencies per week and the airline will deploy a Boeing 738 based in Warsaw on the route to Mombasa.
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Working group on Cyprus starts duty in Switzerland
A working group seeking a solution to the Cyprus conflict under the auspices of the United Nations and with the participation of the three guarantor powers has started its duty in Mont Pelerin in Switzerland on Jan. 18.
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Business in brief: Spacecom says talks to sell company to Chinese ended without deal
Israel Securities Authority seeks Cyprus’ aid in binary-option crackdown | Kerur says weighing option to buy out Jafora partner Clal Industries | Energy and telecoms stock weigh on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange