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Belgio
Partner opgepakt van vrouw die dood aangetroffen werd in Seneffe
De partner van de 47-jarige vrouw die maandag dood aangetroffen werd in het kanaal Brussel-Charleroi, is na bekentenissen aangehouden voor
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Finlandia
Two dead, six hurt in Finland knife attack
Updated 8.35pm A man with a knife killed two people and wounded at least six in a stabbing rampage in a market square in the Finnish city of Turku today, police said. Police shot the suspected attacker in the leg and arrested him. They said they had yet to establish the ...
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Malta
Drug mule lied under oath, says man caught in cocaine sting
A man sentenced to 13 years behind bars for conspiring to import cocaine has filed an appeal, claiming the jury's star witness lied under oath and that the guilty verdict had been reached on the basis of assumptions. Last month, Stephen Egbo, 39, of San Ġwann, was found guilty by 7 votes ...
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USA
Donald Trump fires strategist Steve Bannon
Updated 8.50pm President Donald Trump today fired Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the latest high-level White House shakeup, removing a powerful and controversial figure known for far-right political views. Bannon was a force behind some of Trump's most contentious policies, including a travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority nations, ...
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USA Finlandia
Updated (3): Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead
A man stabbed eight people today in Finland's western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack.A suspect — a man whose identity was not known — was being ...
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Malta
Man sentenced to 13 years jail files appeal based on ‘credibility’ of star witness
Lawyers have filed an appeal on behalf of Stephen Egbo, a Nigerian man fighting a 13 years jail term accompanied by a €30,000 fine for being found guilty to conspiring to import cocaine from the Netherlands in 2010.The defence team is making the case that the jury’s lead witness is ...
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Malta
Godfrey Farrugia ‘not interested’ in Partit Demokratiku leadership
Partit Demokratiku MP Godfrey Farrugia says today that he is not interested in the race for the party leadership.Writing on Facebook, Farrugia says that “at this stage , I am not interested in contesting the Leadership of this party, not least because we have capable others willing and able to ...
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USA Malta
Number of University of Malta graduates increases by 15% in four years
The number of students who graduated from the University of Malta in 2014/2015 witnessed a large increase of 15.1% when compared to four years prior, according to a recent report by the National Statistics Office.The Regional Statistics report, which was published last week, stated that the academic year of 2014/2015 ...
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Ecuador
IRP: Funcionarios de la ANDE también rechazan retención
Los funcionarios agremiados en el Sindicato de Trabajadores Profesionales de la ANDE (Aproande) manifestaron su rechazo a la resolución 119/17 de la Subsecretaría de Tributación (SET), por la cual se dispuso retener parte del salario de los trabajadores que son alcanzados por el impuesto a la renta personal (IRP). ...
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Cina Turchia
Turkish contractors rank second in world for foreign projects for 10th straight year
Turkey ranked in second place after China for the number of contracting companies building the largest volume of projects across the world outside their home countries for the 10th year in a row, according to the latest list of the world’s “top 250 contractors” by the magazine Engineering News Record ...