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Panama Malta Italia
PN MPs temporarily walk out of Parliament as Konrad Mizzi speaks about LNG tanker and energy issues
PN MPs temporarily walked out of Parliament tonight, as Environment Minister Jose Herrerra wanted to yield the floor to minister Konrad Mizzi for technical points regarding the LNG tanker and the energy sector.Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil said that the PN wanted the Prime Minister, as the minister in charge of ...
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Malta
Restaurant survey: Gozo restaurants doing better, Valletta restaurants struggle due to oversupply
Restaurants in Valletta surveyed by the Deloitte – MIA Restaurants Performance survey registered a loss in revenue trends of 1.6 per cent, while restaurants of the sister island of Gozo registered an increase of 3.2 per cent.A total of 89 restaurants was surveyed: 17 from Valletta, 16 from the North, ...
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USA Malta
BirdLife hints looming election stopping government from taking action on hunting illegalities
There has been a total of 32 shootings and 120 illegalities registered by Birdlife Malta since the start of the autumn hunting season a month and a half ago, the organization said today at a press conference in Valletta. The latest of the shootings happened two days ago when a ...
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USA Thailandia
Updated: Thailand's king, world's longest-reigning monarch, dies
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, revered in Thailand as a demigod, a humble father figure and an anchor of stability through decades of upheaval at home and abroad, died Thursday. He was 88 and had been the world's longest reigning monarch.The Royal Palace said Bhumibol died "in a peaceful state" at Siriraj ...
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Malta
INDEPTH – Online programme on www.independent.com.mt as from this week
The Malta Independent as from this week will be producing an online programme called INDEPTH, which will take the form of a one-on-one interview.Pierre Portelli, Rachel Attard and Stephen Calleja will take turns to interview people in the news.Pierre Portelli, who is the content and business director, is a former ...
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Malta
Industrial action ordered at the law courts, workers complain of health and safety issues
Three separate cases of industrial action were initiated this morning at the law courts by Voice of the Workers Unjoni Haddiema Mghaqudin (UHM) over a number of outstanding issues effecting clerks, messengers and other court workers.A collective agreement that has taken over two years to be concluded, discriminatory employment applications and ...
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USA Malta
Editorial - Hunting violations: What is the Prime Minister waiting for?
With the killing of 31 protected species of birds so far this autumn one really must ask what the Prime Minister is waiting for to, at the very least, suspend the autumn hunting season until the main migration season for protected birds has passed us by.31 protected birds have been ...
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USA Vietnam Italia
Updated - Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo dies at 90
Italian playwright Dario Fo, whose energetic mocking of Italian political life, social mores and religion won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, died Thursday, a Milan hospital official said. He was 90.Fo died Thursday morning in Milan's Sacco hospital, hospital spokeswoman Ida Mannelli told The Associated Press.Premier Matteo Renzi said ...
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USA Malta
Samsung Note 7 devices sold in Malta recalled, sales stopped
Samsung Note 7 devices sold in Malta have been recalled and all sales of the product have stopped, the Department of Information said this morning.Following worldwide reports of incidents regarding overheating and combustion of the Samsung Note 7 mobile phone, the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA) has been ...
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Romania Bulgaria Regno Unito Austria Malta Cipro Italia
Four Maltese companies implicated in €130 million Italian tax scam
Four Maltese companies have been implicated in what the Italian authorities are describing as a ‘gigantic carousel fraud’, the Vicenza Guardia di Finanza reported yesterday. The scam, which was perpetrated through 145 Italian companies and 35 companies outside of Italy, four of which were in Malta, saw €130 million being ...