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Indonesia
App for polygamy stirs up controversy in Indonesia
A dating app in Indonesia that aims to bring together men and women interested in polygamous marriages has stirred controversy and debate in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation. Polygamy is legal in Indonesia, where a man is allowed to be married to up to four women at a time, but the ...
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USA Malta
August tourist arrivals up by 12.2% to 288,033
A total of 288,033 tourists visited Malta in August, an increase of 12.2 per cent compared to the corresponding month in 2016.The National Statistics Office said 259,392 foreigners visited on holiday and 7,839 on business. Tourists from the EU member states went up by 11.5 per cent to 245,390 when compared ...
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Updated (4): At least 50 killed, 200 injured as gunman opens fire at Las Vegas concert
A gunman perched high on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip casino unleashed a shower of bullets down on an outdoor country music festival below, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 200 as tens of thousands of frantic concert-goers screamed and ran for their lives, ...
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FIRST MAGAZINE: The rise of the one-child family
Across the EU, only one-sixth of all households are composed of three people or more. Those with more than four are rare, those with five account for fewer than 4.5 per cent and those with six or more for less than two per cent.In the UK, over half of all ...
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USA Malta
Teachers need to be provided with proper salary that reflects their profession – MUT president
You were elected MUT President last June. What vision do you have for the union over the coming years?We will always look towards strengthening the profession, but as it stands we are focusing on some internal MUT reforms. Currently, the union has two roles; a trade union and a professional ...
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Malta
Plastic Deposit Return System proposal: GreenPak calls for waste recycling impact assessment
GreenPak Cooperative Society has said that while it is in favour of increased plastic bottle recycling, and Deposit Return Systems (DRS) are one possible direction to evaluate, such systems have been shown to be ineffective in certain societal and economic contexts.Based on current data, GreenPak told The Malta Independent on ...
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USA Spagna
'Yes' side wins Catalonia independence vote marred by chaos
Catalonia's regional government declared a landslide win for the "yes" side in a disputed referendum on independence from Spain that degenerated into mayhem Sunday, with more than 800 people injured as riot police attacked peaceful protesters and unarmed civilians trying to cast their ballots.Catalonia has "won the right to become ...
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Spagna
Updated: Catalonia calls for Spain mediation amid referendum dispute
Catalonia's leader on Monday called for international mediation and for the European Union "to stop looking the other way" in the region's bid to secede from Spain, a day after a violent crackdown by Spanish police trying to block referendum voting.Carles Puigdemont also said that he would file a complaint ...
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Malta Italia
eNGO calls for setting up of Environmental Crime Police unit
Nature Trust – FEE Malta is urging the government to allocate more funds towards environmental conservation and protection.Finance Minister Edward Scicluna will present next year’s budget on Monday.The eNGO noted that, now that Malta has achieved a surplus in its budget, it is about time that one of the pillars ...
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Malta
€11m in budget will be dedicated to sections of public workers to 'fix past injustices'
In what Finance Minister Edward Scicluna called a "moral obligation" from the government, it was today announced that €11 million from the upcoming budget will be given to sections of public workers who in the past did not receive money owed to them.Addressing a press coverage at the Finance ministry ...