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    G7 leaders make progress on trade, remain split on climate change

    Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations pledged to fight protectionism, overcoming resistance from US President Donald Trump, who was elected on an "America first" agenda, diplomatic sources said. However, the United States remained isolated from the other six G7 nations over climate change, demanding more time to decide whether ...

  • Panama Malta

    Former judge calls Muscat’s remarks inappropriate

    Former chief justice Joseph Said Pullicino has branded the Prime Minister’s remarks on a magistrate “inappropriate” and said members of the judiciary should be allowed to work in complete serenity. Dr Said Pullicino was contacted by the Times of Malta yesterday for his reaction to controversial remarks made by Joseph Muscat ...

  • Malta

    Risk and complexity in investments: many eggs, different baskets

    This is part two in a four-part series about investing. Read part one here.  In an earlier article, I discussed considering the amount of risk you can handle before taking a financial decision. The second question to ask is: How can you diminish your risk? It goes without saying that you should not ...

  • Malta

    PN pledges cheaper fuel and no more LNG tanker

    A Nationalist government would immediately begin work to remove the LNG tanker in Marsaxlokk and replace it with a gas pipeline linking Malta to Sicily, Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil said this morning.Speaking at a press conference in Attard, Dr Busuttil vowed to reduce petrol and diesel prices by 5c ...

  • USA

    Woman marries San Diego train station

    A woman in California has gone full steam ahead in her quest to find true love by announcing that she has married a train station.  Carol Santa Fe, 45, says that she is smitten with Santa Fe train station in California and has vowed to never let her love go off ...

  • Australia

    Careers Australia collapse leaves thousands in limbo

    Careers Australia Group, a provider of vocational education and training, has gone into voluntary administration after losing government funding, putting 1,100 people out of work and 15,000 students in limbo, its administrators said yesterday. All work placements for students, many of them from overseas, will be suspended immediately as will all ...

  • Malta

    INDEPTH: Bad elements in PL should not put off honest politicians – Chris Fearne

    In a strikingly honest reply during INDEPTH, The Malta Independent's current affairs programme, Health Minister Chris Fearne said that in every organisation there are those who are shady and those who are honest. He was replying to a question by Pierre Portelli on whether he feels comfortable working in a ...

  • Spagna Malta

    Kickback allegations: Allied Newspapers says it could have been 'victim of criminal activities'

    Allied Newspapers, publishers of The Times of Malta, this evening said it has no knowledge of alleged payments to the tune of €650,000 made by the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Keith Schembri to its former managing director Adrian Hillman. The company also stated that it could have, if allegations by ...

  • USA Malta

    Tax schemes such as Malta’s ‘open the door for large-scale tax avoidance’, says Greens co-chair

    Ska Keller, the Co-Chair of the Greens-EFA Group in the European Parliament, had harsh words today for Malta’s corporate tax regime, which has been put under fire recently.During a press conference in Vittoriosa, Keller, said: "Even if the existing Maltese tax system might not be in conflict with European law, ...

  • Malta

    Economic figures published today are putting peoples’ minds at ease - Scicluna

    Finance Minister Edward Scicluna said today that recently published government finance figures are putting peoples minds at rest, that the economy is doing well.The minister explained that in the last year of the previous administration, Malta had a huge €362 million deficit in the consolidated fund, adding that this government ...