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Turchia
Iranian-origin British owner of production company and Kuwaiti business partner shot dead in Istanbul
An Iranian-origin British owner of a production company and his Kuwaiti business partner were shot dead in Istanbul late on April 29 by masked individuals who opened fire on their vehicle
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Turchia
Name of assassin of Russian envoy appears on secret documents of Gülen followers
The name of the off-duty police officer who killed Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in December 2016 has appeared in the archives seized during April 26 raids on alleged “secret imams” of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) within the police forces
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Malta
Minimum wage ‘has stayed the same’
Friday’s minimum wage agreement has been hailed as a ‘historic’ step to help lift people out of poverty. However, Malta Employers Association director general Joseph Farrugia insists this was no minimum wage increase but a mechanism to reduce the number of workers earning the lowest amount set by law. There is ...
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Panama
Muscat gives hint of early election, confident people will choose well when decision time comes
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning gave a hint that he may opt for a snap election, saying he would not let the "coalition of instability" endanger jobs, risk instability in the country and slow down the economy. He said some people had spoken to him about how business had slowed ...
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Malta
MTA’s €1m sponsorship to non-tourist airline
The Malta Tourism Authority has given a €1 million sponsorship to VistaJet, a private business airline which does not bring tourists to Malta, The Sunday Times of Malta is informed. Asked to explain the reason for this massive funding, neither Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis nor the MTA replied, citing “commercial ...
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EXCLUSIVE: 'I could not fly home to bury my mum, police took my passport at request of Pilatus Bank'
I am Russian and my husband is Greek. We were living in his country but decided to come to Malta to live here and work, with our two young children. We arrived in December 2015 and both found work more or less immediately. On 15 January 2016, I began work ...
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USA
Editorial: Serenity – the misnomer of the year
‘Serene’ is how the Prime Minister describes his state of mind of late, but the body language and the events sweeping across the country, the statement tells another story altogether. The hysterical reactions of government acolytes and pundits, who have gone to extraordinary lengths to discredit a woman who blew ...
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Malta
Will he or won’t he call an election?
There’s no doubt that the country has moved into election mode and the big question on everyone’s mind is whether the Prime Minister will be calling an early election tomorrow in his 1st May address in Valletta.Three Sundays ago, The Malta Independent on Sunday quoted government sources as saying that ...
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Election: Should he or shouldn’t he?
Lawrence Gonzi: The decision to call an early election is obviously the Prime Minister’s prerogative. Under normal circumstances, I would have argued that there are no reasons whatsoever for an early election to be called. I would also have argued that the overriding consideration should always be tied to the ...
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FinanceMalta taking the next quantum leap to sustain the promotion of Malta as a financial centre
7 May will mark the 10th anniversary of FinanceMalta. In fact, Malta had only been a member of the EU for a few years when the industry felt the need to initiate the process to set up a body that would be tasked to communicate Malta's value proposition as a ...