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Malta
Bidders incredulous as Enemalta gives contract to company in administration
The failed bidders of a €2 million contract for the dismantling of the old Delimara power plant expressed incredulity after it was announced that an Italian firm facing financial difficulties had secured it. Questions sent yesterday questioning why Enemalta persisted in awarding the tender to General Smontaggi remained unanswered at the ...
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Malta
Today's newspapers in review
These are the leading stories in today's local newspapers. The Times of Malta leads with news that Enemalta has awarded a €2 million deal to an Italian company in direc financial straits, despite tender rules stipulating that companies in administration could be excluded from taking part. In a separate caption story, the ...
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Cina Russia USA
US report: Putin ordered effort to help Trump, hurt Clinton
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America's presidential election in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies declared Friday in the government's first formal allegation supporting sensational claims that Trump and his supporters have staunchly resisted.The intelligence report, an unclassified version of a ...
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Russia Regno Unito
Updated: UK envoy who quit top EU post resigns from civil service
A senior British diplomat who warned that negotiating a European Union exit could take 10 years has quit the civil service, days after stepping down as the U.K.'s envoy to the bloc, the government said Saturday.Ivan Rogers unexpectedly resigned as Britain's permanent representative in Brussels on Tuesday, months before divorce ...
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USA
How it happened: Florida airport gunman sent panicked passengers fleeing for lives
Without a word, the gunman moved through the baggage claim picking off travelers until his handgun ran out of ammunition, leaving five dead and eight wounded in Fort Lauderdale's airport.Panicked witnesses ran out of the terminal and spilled onto the tarmac, baggage in hand. Others hid in bathroom stalls or ...
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USA Israele
Florida airport shooting raises questions about guns in baggage
The suspect in a deadly shooting at a Florida airport used a gun that he had stored in his checked luggage, raising questions about airport security and whether safety officials need to change the current rules.Esteban Santiago, 26, retrieved his gun from his bag on the carousel, loaded it in a bathroom ...
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Azerbaigian
Jason Azzopardi to file libel proceedings against Minister Bonnici
Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi said he will be filing libel proceedings against Justice Minister Owen Bonnici for the “lie he invented” this morning and “comments he said I made about Zaren Vassallo”. This is a lie “from start to finish” and Owen Bonnici will have to answer for this in ...
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Malta
Edward Scicluna fails to explain overspending by Muscat’s Cabinet of Ministers - PN
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has failed to give an explanation on the millions of euros that were spent over and above the allotted budget by the Cabinet of Ministers led by Joseph Muscat, the Nationalist Party said in a statement. A good part of the money was spent on travelling ...
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Senegal
L'affaire du saccage de la maison du PS toujours en exergue
Dakar, 7 jan (APS) - Les quotidiens parvenus samedi à l'APS n'en ont que pour ce que certains titres assimilent à une "crise" au Parti socialiste, en allusion aux prolongements judiciaires de l'affaire du saccage de la Maison du PS, le 5 mars 2015, à Dakar. - La Une
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Uruguay
Prevén fuerte aporte para el blanqueo desde Uruguay
Nueva ley