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USA
PN leadership candidate: Adrian Delia says message needs to be delivered to people one by one
Adrian Delia, a lawyer and an outsider to the political sphere, has confirmed that he will be contesting the Nationalist Party leadership race in September. Delia is the first contender to have confirmed his interest in the position being vacated by Simon Busuttil in the wake of the party’s defeat ...
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USA Regno Unito Malta Cipro
Angela Merkel sounds warning that UK may copy Malta’s low-tax model
German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week sounded an alarm that the UK may end up copying Malta's low tax rate model when it exits the European Union.Addressing a meeting with non-governmental organisations in Hamburg this week, before she hosts a G20 summit in the city next month, she said: "I ...
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USA Malta
25% of child care centre complaints related to carer to child ratios, number restrictions - minister
Around 25 per cent of the 60 complaints received during the past year by the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education (DQSE), within the Ministry for Education and Employment, were related to the non-compliance of childcare centres with carer to child ratios and/or with going above the restrictions for ...
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Malta
Jerma owners now proposing 28-storey tower; council told other option is larger than abandoned hotel
The long abandoned Jerma Hotel in Marsascala might be turned into a 28-storey tower or a building with a bigger footprint than the existing structure. The owners who had proposed the development of three towers, the highest being 44 storeys high, have now approached the Local Council with new plans, ...
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91% of adult population participates in cultural activity
91% of Malta’s adult population participated in a cultural activity according to new statistics on cultural participation in 2016 released by Arts Council Malta. The population survey carried out by the National Statistics Office in collaboration with the Valletta 2018 Foundation gives a statistical snapshot of several characteristics associated with the involvement of people ...
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Malta
Malta’s high car to inhabitant ratio confirms challenges we face – Borg
Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Ian Borg believes that Malta’s high ranking in the Eurostat report, which analyzed the number of passenger cars per inhabitant in each EU country, confirms the challenges that the Ministry has ahead of it.This newspaper contacted the newly-appointed Minister in light of a Eurostat report ...
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USA Malta
State opening of Parliament: President Coleiro Preca speaks of unity, Second Republic
In an address to Parliament during the State opening, President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca said that in a different manner to usual, she is not “presenting the normal speech, which is aimed at giving a list of measures.”Her speech focused on unity, a number of issues which government indends to ...
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India
Gov't to allocate NIS 280m for Israel-India cooperation
The new fund will increase exports to India, boost cooperation in water, agriculture and higher education, and encourage investments and tourism in Israel.
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Uruguay
Molenbeek: Une voiture fonce sur des policiers
Vers 15h40, à Molenbeek, près de la gare de l'ouest, un homme conduisant une Mercedes bleue a foncé en direction de plusieurs officiers. Il n'y pas de blessés.
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Paraguay
PCC "compra" militares estrangeiros na fronteira
Fundado ainda em 1993, o grupo paulista Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) foi o responsável pelo maior assalto da história do Paraguai em abril deste ano. Ali, atuou a 1.044km de São Paulo, mais precisamente em Ciudad del Este. Pelo menos 30 homens com armamento de guerra, como metralhadoras, fuzis ...