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Malta
Special festival edition of Open Mic
This evening, as part of the programme of pre-festival events of the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival, Inizjamed presents a special edition of its monthly multilingual Open Mic (Palk Ħieles) session coordinated by Jean Paul Borg, at Maori Bar, Triq il-Lanċa, Valletta at 8pm. Writers and singer-songwriters are welcome to present their work. ...
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USA
George and Amal Clooney give $1 mln to combat US hate groups
Actor George Clooney and his humanitarian lawyer wife, Amal Clooney, have donated $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a US non-profit that monitors extremists and domestic hate groups, in response to protests in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month. An Aug. 12 rally in the town organized by neo-Nazis and ...
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Malta
Law regulating the legal profession still ‘in limbo’
A draft law regulating the legal profession has been in limbo for the past four years despite various promises by the Justice Minister to present it to Parliament. The Bill, which aims to put Malta’s legal profession at par with mainstream Europe, was originally published in 2012 but never made it ...
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Italia
Italian boy credited with helping save brother after quake
An Italian family of five was "reborn" after all three children buried in the rubble of their home by a 4.0-magnitude quake were pulled to safety Tuesday in a painstaking 16-hour rescue operation on the popular Mediterranean resort island of Ischia.The Toscano family's happy ending brought cheers from the dozens ...
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Turchia Malta
Faculty for Social Wellbeing appeals for further action against domestic violence
The Faculty for Social Wellbeing has appealed to the authorities to take the necessary and expedited action to address violence against women, in particular domestic violence, which it described as "a social issue that is leaving a profound scar on our communities.""As a Faculty we condemn violence against women (and ...
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Nuova Zelanda
Sales of $1m-plus homes grow 11 per cent in Tauranga
Sales of million-dollar plus properties in the Bay are up on last year, bucking a national decrease driven by a drop in Auckland sales.In the first half of 2017, 180 properties sold for more than a million across the region, according...
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Nigeria
Belgium, France now issue Dutch visas — Envoy
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria, on Tuesday, stated that it was no longer in the business of issuing visas to Nigerians. The Embassy’s Charge d’ Affaires, Mr. Michel Deleen, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the embassy had since 2013 swapped its ...
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Nigeria
Fraudsters circulating forged crude oil allocation letters, says NNPC
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation on Tuesday warned oil sector operators about the activities of conmen specialising in circulating forged letters of crude oil allocation with the intent of defrauding unsuspecting buyers or members of the public. Speaking at the presentation of commendation letters to 12 personnel ...
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Nigeria
Adeosun emerges board chair of ECOWAS Investment Bank
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has emerged as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors of the ECOWAS Investment Bank. She was named as the new chairman at the end of the 15th Annual General Meeting of the board of governors of the bank. ...
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Nigeria
CBN: Forex monthly demand jumps to N588b
The demand for foreign exchange (forex) has continued to rise despite the drop in forex earnings by the Federal Government, it was learnt yesterday. Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele said yesterday that the average monthly import bill rose from N12.4 billion in 2005 to N588.1 billion in ...