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Regno Unito
Anti-settlement Peace Now to brief UK's Boris Johnson on settlements
The British Foreign Secretary is scheduled to arrive Tuesday.
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Iran
Netanyahu: Iran responsible for more than 80% of Israel’s security concerns
According to foreign reports, Israel has acted on a number of occasions to disrupt arms shipments from Iran intended for Hezbollah.
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Malta
Is PL dodging party financing law to hide donations, asks AD's Cassola
The Labour Party's failure to register as a political party could be a ploy for it to avoid limits on party donations imposed on it by law, Alternattiva Demokratika chairman Arnold Cassola said. In a statement issued by AD, Prof. Cassola asked whether the party could in this way "continue cashing ...
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Thailandia
915 coins extracted from sea turtle
Thai veterinarians have removed 915 coins from a 25-year-old sea turtle which had been swallowing items thrown into her pool for good luck, eventually limiting her ability to swim. The coins and other objects removed from the turtle named Omsin - piggy bank in Thai - weighed 5 kg (11 lb). ...
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USA Grecia Malta Finlandia Italia
Migration: NGOs blast EU plans on returns and detention
Ninety human rights organisations have blasted the European Union’s plans to return or detain irregular migrants, saying that the plans unveiled this week ahead of next week’s EU summit will simply create more harm and suffering.Bowing down to political pressure to be “tough” on irregular migration, the European Commission has ...
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Malta
Poland names counter-candidate to Tusk as EU leader
Poland on Saturday proposed a counter-candidate to Donald Tusk as European Council head, saying the Polish incumbent has hurt his country's interests.Just days before a March 9-10 European Union summit in Brussels to vote on Tusk's re-election, Poland's conservative government named Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, one of the country's center-right members of ...
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Cina Russia Italia
Updated: General Motors sells European brands to France's PSA Group
General Motors is selling its loss-making European car business, including Germany's Opel and British brand Vauxhall, to France's PSA group in a deal that realigns the industry in the region.With the 2.2 billion euro ($2.33 billion) deal announced Monday, GM is giving up a foothold in the world's third-largest auto ...
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Turchia USA Paesi Bassi
Turkey President accuses Germany of 'Nazi' practices; rift deepens
A diplomatic rift between Turkey and key European nations deepened Sunday as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Germany of "Nazi practices," days after a local authority prevented a Turkish minister from addressing a rally.Over at an election campaign event in Amsterdam, meanwhile, Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders also resorted to ...
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Malta
PM Muscat asks if Opposition Leader thinks his deputy is corrupt
Maybe it was a first in Maltese political history: speaking in Senglea, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat referred to a speech that was being made almost contemporaneously by Simon Busuttil in Birkirkara.No website or online portal had put up Dr Busuttil's speech by then, which means that Dr Muscat was getting ...
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Panama Malta
Update (2): De Marco renounces legal advice on ITS site, PN to talk to AG regarding ITS contract
PN deputy leader Mario de Marco has renounced to giving legal advice to the DB Group on the ITS project in St George's Bay, Leader of the Opposition Simon Busuttil announced at a party gathering in Marsa today. "Every party will face difficulties, but it is how you act on ...