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Malta’s Willa Naylor story inspires: Other nations shaking heads at US transgender toilet battle
Willa Naylor’s story is serving as an inspiration to other nations, the Associated Press reports.The transgender child two years ago published a book, which goes by the name 'Truly Willa', describing Willa's story as she experiences this drastic change in her life at a very young age.The Associated Press is ...
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Self-driving Nissan takes to Europe’s streets for first time, reaching speed in London
Guided by cameras and radars, and negotiating traffic and roundabouts, a self-driving Nissan car took to the streets of London on Monday for the Japanese company’s first European tests of an autonomous vehicle. Traveling at up to 50 mph (80 kph) and moving from local streets to a major multilane ...
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Business News: UK firm discovers gold worth Sh171 billion in Kakamega
A UK firm has announced the discovery of high-grade gold at its mines in Kakamega County.
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Business: UK firm discovers gold worth Sh171 billion in Kakamega
A UK firm has announced the discovery of high-grade gold at its mines in Kakamega County.
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Chinese apartment buyers shift from Australia to UK
Regulators crack down on foreign lending amid fears of property price bubble
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‘If the justice minister were my student I’d give him an F’ - Antonio Ghio
The Media and Defamation Bill (MADA) proposed by the government and intended to replace the Press Act contains an obligation for the registration of websites with a Media Registrar. Websites are defined in the proposed MADA as "any web-based news service or other web-based service relating to news or current ...
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FG to recover stolen $600m, £321m from UK, Switzerland
Leke Baiyewu The Federal Government is set to to repatriate more loot kept in foreign countries by corrupt Nigerians this year. The government said it was expecting the recovery of €6.3m from Ireland, $600m from the United Kingdom and £321m from Switzerland in 2017 alone. The Minister of Justice and ...
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Projects Malta nominated for international award
Projects Malta Ltd has been nominated as a finalist in the international Partnership Awards 2017 to be held in London. A total of 100 submissions were made for the awards, which will judge projects from Europe, Asia and Africa. The award recognises what it considers to be a model of joint projects between ...
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ITV's Cannonball to be shot in Malta
ITV, one of the main broadcasters in the UK, has selected Malta as the prime location for all the water games of new TV show Cannonball. All the focus will be on Malta as the Malta Film Studios in Kalkara will be set up for the variety of water-based challenges. ITV has already ...
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International TV game show production 'Cannonball' aired on ITV to be shot in Malta
One of the main broadcasters in the UK, ITV, has selected Malta as the prime location for all the water games of their new show 'Cannonball'. ITV has already issued a call for contestants across the UK.Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis said that 2017 has already started off on a ...
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Projects Malta shortlisted for international 'Partnership Award' in London
Projects Malta Ltd, a government entity that works on joint government - private sector projects, has been shortlisted for the 2017 'Partnership Award' in London.A Projects Malta statement read that there were around 100 submissions for these international awards, and projects from Europe, Asia and Africa are being judged.The awards ...
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Iconic building by Maltese architect graces entrance of London’s Westfield City Mall
International Shopping Mall Westfield and Italian café brand Colicci appointed award winning architectural practice Mizzi Studio to design an iconic kiosk for the entrance of Westfield City's Shopping Centre leading from the Queen Elizabeth's Olympic Park, London. Due to the site's prominent location, the kiosk's design is intended to provide ...
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[VIDEO] Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua dies from cancer
Nyeri Governor Nderitu Gachagua died aged 64 at a London hospital on Friday morning. Gachagua died at about 2.15am from pancreatic cancer, an illness that saw him admitted in the UK for two months in 2015. Rigathi Gachagua, the late county chief's brother, said he had been sick for about two years. He told NTV ...
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Horse saved by firefighters after plunging nine metres down Scottish cliff
A horse has been rescued by firefighters after it fell up to nine metres down a cliff. Crews were called to the scene north of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland. Around 30 firefighters - including rope rescue specialists and a heavy rescue unit - pulled the female horse to safety in an operation ...
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Rare tortoises saved from smugglers make zoo debut
Four endangered tortoises who were rescued from smugglers have gone on show in the UK for the first time. The ploughshare tortoises were sent to Chester Zoo in 2012 after they were confiscated by customs officials in Hong Kong in 2009. The four were part of a shipment of 13 tortoises smuggled ...
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England champions Leicester fire Ranieri as relegation looms
Masterminding one of the greatest upsets in sporting history wasn't enough for Claudio Ranieri to keep his job at Leicester.Ranieri was fired by Leicester on Thursday, nine months after the 65-year-old Italian manager guided the club to the English Premier League title at preseason odds of 5,000-1.Leicester's Thai owners took the drastic measure with ...
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Business News: Barclays brand to exit Kenya as UK lender reaches stock sale plan
Barclays Kenya is set for a major re-organisation after the UK banking giant reached an agreement on the sale of its controlling stake in Barclays Africa Group Ltd (BAGL).
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Business: Barclays brand to exit Kenya as UK lender reaches stock sale plan
Barclays Kenya is set for a major re-organisation after the UK banking giant reached an agreement on the sale of its controlling stake in Barclays Africa Group Ltd (BAGL).
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Alternattiva Demokratika praises Edward Scicluna's good work in Brussels
Alternattiva Demokratika chairperson, Prof. Arnold Cassola, today praised Finance Minister Edward Scicluna “for having managed to get the EU Finance Ministers to agree on taking measures to fight tax avoidance, despite giving the impression in Malta that he was not so enthusiastic about them. This agreement should spell the beginning ...
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New media law ‘a big step backwards, nothing more than censorship’, says former MCA boss
A new law regulating the media is “one big step backwards,” according to a former chairman of the Malta Communications Authority. Speaking to The Malta Independent, Philip Micallef, who until recently also served as Chief Executive Officer of Air Malta, said the bill is nothing more than censorship, “whatever government ...
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PANA Committee chairman says Mizzi’s situation not clear, ‘but it looks like money laundering'
PANA Committee Chairman Werner Langen said this evening that Minister Konrad Mizzi's situation regarding his Panama company "looks like money laundering", however stressed that things are not clear at the moment.In comments to The Malta Independent after a day-long of meetings as part of an investigation in the Panama Papers ...