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USA
Alfred Mifsud’s partner says she received an SMS intended for new lover, court hears
Alfred Mifsud’s former partner has told a court that she had realised that the deputy Central Bank Governor was seeing someone else during their relationship as he had sent her messages that had been intended for his other lover.Taking the witness stand before Judge Silvio Meli, Anna Zelbst testified in ...
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USA Australia Iran Danimarca Italia
Updated: Oscars go gaga for 'La La Land' with record-tying 14 nods
The candy-colored love letter to musicals "La La Land" has landed a record-tying 14 Academy Awards nominations, matching it with "Titanic" and "All About Eve" for most nominations ever."La La Land" has earned nods for best picture, its stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, its songs and its 32-year-old writer-director, ...
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Bulgaria Regno Unito Malta
Serbian woman filmed alleged victims so as ‘not to be blamed for anything’, court hears
The Serbian woman who is being charged with the deaths of two UK pensioners had filmed the victims as they insisted on not going to the hospital when they fell ill. A court heard today how the police managed to extract videos of the woman ‘interrogating’ the elderly man while ...
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USA Malta
Minister Herrera outlines his main priorities during EU committee grilling
Climate change, the circular economy, low carbon emissions, and anti biotic risks infections are the main environmental priorities during Malta's EU Presidency, Minister Jose' Herrera told MEPs during his grilling with committee on the environment, public health, and food safety. The Minister was praised by a number of his ...
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Italia
Updated: Toll from Italy avalanche climbs to 15 as hopes diminish
Hopes began to fade Tuesday that any more survivors would be found from a devastating avalanche, as the death toll climbed to 14 and rescue crews were hit with another tragedy nearby: reports of a downed helicopter ferrying an injured skier off the slopes.Civil protection officials said they were checking ...
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Panama Malta
‘My track record speaks for itself,’ Bartolo tells MEPs, on corruption claims
Education Minister Evarist Bartolo today insisted that he had fought against corruption throughout his 25-year parliamentary career and his track record on the subject “spoke for itself.”Mr Bartolo was being grilled by MEPs in the European Parliament committee for culture. He was accompanied by Justice and Culture Minister Owen Bonnici. ...
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Regno Unito Malta
Drug driving: more data, more education, more awareness
While another substance-filled holiday season has drawn to a close, The Malta Independent met with Chair of the National Centre for the Freedom from Addictions (NCFA) Dr Anna Vella to gauge what the prevalence of drug driving is in Malta, and understand why it is not given much attention in ...
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USA Nuova Zelanda
Godec to remain in office, as other US envoys resign
US Ambassador Robert Godec will not quit and services at the embassy will go on uninterrupted. The Star has learned that Godec is not affected by US President Donald Trump’s anticipated administrative changes in all embassies worldwide. Trump’s transition team early this month demanded all ambassadors appointed by former President ...
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Kenya
Business: CBK says it injected Sh45b to rescue troubled banks in 2016
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) loaned banks billions of shillings to remain afloat between June 2015 and 2016.
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Cina
Business: Fossils of utterly huge otter unearthed in China
Scientists have unearthed fossils of an intriguingly large otter as big as a wolf that frolicked in rivers and lakes in a lush, warm and humid wetlands region in southwestern China about 6.2 million years ago.