• Spagna Panama

    UĦM calls for police commissioner's resignation

    The UĦM Voice of the Workers said it will take part in tomorrow's protest against corruption as it called for the police commissioner's resignation.  It is "clear" that the institutions tasked with probing the allegations are not shouldering their responsibilities, the union said, justifying its decision to take part in the ...

  • USA

    Trump warming to EU trade deal with Britain behind in queue - Times

    The United States could strike a free-trade agreement with the European Union after President Donald Trump warmed to a deal with the bloc, the Times reported, quoting sources from both sides of the discussion. Post-Brexit Britain would be pushed behind Europe in the race to secure a US deal after Germany's Angela ...

  • Spagna Panama

    Mizzi, Schembri testify, no comment on inquiry

    Updated 12.30pm with Mizzi comments Keith Schembri, the Prime Minister's chief of staff would not say whether he personally owned a bank account at Pilatus Bank after testifying in the Egrant inquiry. He was asked outside the law courts after testifying in front of magistrate Aaron Bugeja. Mr Schembri kept repeating that he ...

  • USA Spagna Panama

    Watch: Joseph Muscat, wife testify to clear names 'from the dirt'

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife Michelle this morning testified in front of the magistrate investigating allegations over their connection with Panama company Egrant is owned by Ms Muscat. The couple walked out of the law courts hand in hand and in the only comments made, Dr Muscat said they ...

  • Italia

    Italy's credit rating lowered to one notch above junk

    Fitch has downgraded its rating on Italy's long-term debt, citing the country's huge debts, stagnant economy and divided politics. The agency cut the country's rating from BBB+ to BBB, one notch above junk-bond status. Fitch says the outlook for the debt is stable. Italy's government debt equalled 132.6% of the country's economic ...

  • USA Malta

    Packham says government is not interested in enforcing law

    It is evident that the government is not interested in enforcing the law, said BBC journalist Chris Packham who was on Thursday found not guilty by the court of assaulting two trappers while filming a documentary on trapping illegalities. “What we have observed this year is a government going into an ...

  • Spagna Azerbaigian Panama

    Muscat says 'fabricated' documents contained data from 'some' electoral registry

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning reiterated claims that transcripts of documents linking his wife to Panama company Egrant had been falsified, insisting more than one piece of information did not tally. Fielding questions from journalists following a press conference this morning, Dr Muscat said that declarations of trusts would have ...

  • USA

    Protectionism damaging for global economy – G20

    The Group of 20 major economies sent a message Friday on the threat that rising protectionism poses to the global economy, but the United States cast doubt over its adherence to that stance. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reiterated the Trump administration’s emphasis on defending America against what it sees ...

  • Nigeria

    Ooni, Alaafin, Alake, Soyinka, others advocate tourism devt

    Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta As Nigeria’s earnings from oil continue to dwindle, the President Muhammadu Buhari-administration has been called upon to tap into the nation’s tourism potential, as it could become the veritable foreign exchange earner for the country. This call was made on Thursday by the Ooni of Ife, Oba ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Female Nigerian marries lesbian partner in US

    ‘We’d have been locked up in Nigeria’ Kunle Falayi A Nigerian lesbian woman, 53-year-old Moji Solar-Percy, walked down the aisle with her American ‘wife’ on Tuesday in the US, celebrating the freedom that she would not have had in Nigeria. Solar-Percy, a real estate mogul, runs a company, Solar Worldwide ...