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Nigeria Regno Unito
UK calls for release of remaining Chibok girls
Bayo Akinloye The British Government has called on the terrorist group, Boko Haram, to release the remaining Chibok schoolgirls and others in its custody. The United Kingdom Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood and his International Development Minister, James Wharton, said during the third anniversary of the girls that their government ...
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Italia
Cevital accusé de ne pas tenir ses engagements
Michel Nardini, 45 ans, a laissé sa famille durant ces fêtes pasquales pour observer un sit-in permanent dans la salle du conseil de la commune de Piombino, auprès de ses collègues de l’usine sidérurgique Aferpi (Aciérie et fer de Piombino). Fait inédit pour un Italien attaché aux traditions qui veulent ...
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Canada
«Les Canadiens sont beaucoup plus impatients que les Algériens face à la bureaucratie»
Rencontré en marge de la mission du Forum des chefs d’entreprise au Canada, organisée la semaine dernière avec le CDCA, Claude Courtemanche décode dans cet entretien le fonctionnement des milieux d’affaires entre les deux pays dont le volume d’échanges, principalement les hydrocarbures, s’est élevé 2,4 milliards de dollars canadiens, selon ...
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Turchia
However vote turns out in Turkey, people should keep calm: German FM
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has commented on the result of Turkey’s constitutional referendum, saying that “people should remain calm.”
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Turchia
German far-right party free to meet in Turkey, says Turkish FM
Turkey’s foreign minister has said if a far-right, anti-immigrant German party wanted to campaign in Turkey, it would be free do to so.
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Malta
Government says negotiations on the White Rocks Malta project still ongoing and progressing
The Ministry for the Economy, Investment and Small Business yesterday categorically denied a report published in Malta Today entitled ‘White Rocks project hits the rocks’.The ministry can confirm, the statement said, that, contrary to what is being reported, the negotiations with the preferred bidder, White Rocks Development Company, are still ongoing and ...
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Malta
Electronic vote counting for all elections from 2019
The Electoral Commission has taken the plunge and issued a tender for an electronic vote counting system for use in all elections from 2019 onward.The advent of electronic voting will substantially trim down the time it takes to count votes, particularly given Malta’s laborious Single Transferable Voting system, which takes ...
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USA Malta
Opinion: Tonio and Carm’s mess - Franco Debono
Franco DebonoSince I will be replying to an opinion piece penned by Carmel Cacopardo in last Sunday’s edition of this newspaper, about what he perceived as some mess, I had to resist the temptation of including him in the title for two reasons. Firstly, because Mr Cacopardo was not in ...
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USA Malta Italia
Public land grant to Lidl ‘senseless and illogical’
The granting of a 10,000 square metre warehousing facility on public land in Ħal Far to giant food chain Lidl by Malta Enterprise has raised more eyebrows following a detailed report last week in The Malta Independent on Sunday.Further research on Lidl’s operations in Europe shows just how illogical it ...
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Spagna Azerbaigian Panama
Election: The great election guessing game
The question everyone has been asking publically, behind closed doors or to themselves is when, exactly, the next general election will be held. And truth be told, the answer is not an easy one and quite possibly the only sure bet is that the man who holds the prerogative to ...