• Brasile

    Brazil’s Armed Forces Pull Out of Rio de Janeiro Before Carnival

    By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After a meeting with the Attorney General’s Office of Military Justice, the Defense Ministry announced that the armed forces will leave the streets of Rio de Janeiro today (February 22nd), according to government news reports. With the end of the ...

  • Brasile

    Brazilian Government Announces End of Recession

    By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Finance minister of Brazil, Henrique Meirelles, says country’s economy is showing signs of recovery and that the worst recession the country has faced in its history is over. Meirelles attributed the positive news to the measures adopted by the government’s ...

  • Panama Malta

    Nexia BT publishes reply to Pana Committee questions

    Nexia BT accountants Brian Tonna and Karl Cini could only answer six of 20 questions posed to them by MEPs investigating the Panama Papers data leak, citing their legal obligations to client confidentiality and anti-money laundering rules.  Answering the questions posed by MEPs, the accountants wrote, would cause them to breach regulations and could ...

  • Malta

    Malta International Airport's profits rise to €21 million

    Malta International Airport’s profits increased from €19.3 million to €21 million last year.  In a notice on the Malta Stock Exchange, the company said increases in revenues were registered by the company’s aviation and non-aviation segments. The group’s global sum for the year was €73,064,828, up from €66,965,843 in 2015. Aviation revenues, which ...

  • USA Malta

    Soft drinks to contain 10 per cent less sugar by 2020

    The Maltese soft drinks industry has announced it will reduce added sugars in its products by 10 per cent by 2020, as part of a recent European soft drink industry 10 per cent sugar reduction commitment. This initiative responds to changing consumer preferences and calls from member states and the European ...

  • Panama Malta

    PM Muscat 'lied' about Konrad Mizzi's audit for months - PN

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat lied last October when he said that an audit of his minister Konrad Mizzi's offshore company and trust was a "work in progress", the Nationalist Party said this afternoon.  The audit opinion released by Dr Mizzi on Monday was dated September 21, 2016 - more than two ...

  • Panama Malta

    Third Panama company belonged to someone more important that Mizzi, Schembri - Busuttil

    The third Panama company belonged to someone who was far more important than Minister Konrad Mizzi and OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri because the name of its owner was not mentioned in writing, PN leader Simon Busuttil said this evening. Speaking on TVM’s programme Dissett, Dr Busuttil said that e-mails ...

  • USA

    710 people died of cancer between January and September; cancer plan to be published in March

    710 patients died of cancer last year between January and September, Health Minister Chris Feane said in Parliament this evening.403 of these patients were men he said, while one of the patients was under 15-years-old. Lung cancer was the most common cancer form in men, while breast cancer the most ...

  • Malta

    Cabinet considering rethink on laws which ‘hinder investigation into organised crime’

    Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela said that the cabinet is considering a rethink on legislation that might "hinder investigations into organised crime". He also said that the Cabinet had discussed Monday's the car bombing in Msida, which is when the issue of such hindering laws came up.Yesterday's car bomb falls ...

  • Italia

    Justice Minister slams Jason Azzopardi for using ‘false arguments’ on Media Bill, PN reacts

    The Ministry for Justice cautioned shadow minister for Justice Jason Azzopardi against using “false and incorrect” arguments to paint the picture that the proposed Media Defamation Bill as being a threat to freedom of journalistic expression. It said that the Bill includes crucial reforms that have been long overdue, and ...