• USA Regno Unito

    UK PM says country must respond to world transformed by Brexit, Trump

    Britain's vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump have transformed the world in a year, Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday, in a speech arguing that governments must heed people's concerns about the impact of globalization on jobs and communities.In a major foreign policy speech ...

  • Russia

    Poland exhumes president, wife killed in 2010 plane crash

    The bodies of former Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife have been removed from their tomb in Krakow, the first of more than 80 exhumations planned on prominent Poles killed in a plane crash in Russia in 2010.The exhumations that began late Monday are part of a new investigation ...

  • Giappone Malta

    Transport Malta please note: 30-metre sinkhole in Japan repaired in two days

    A sinkhole in a major road in Fukuoka, Japan, was repaired within 48 hours, but the road was reopened five days later after the necessary safety tests were carried out.Parts of a main street collapsed in the heart of a major city in southern Japan on Tuesday last week, creating ...

  • Regno Unito

    UK government said to have no plan for Brexit

    A memo prepared by a consultant to the British government says ministers have no coherent plan for leaving the European Union and may need to hire up to 30,000 civil servants to complete the country's exit from the 28-nation bloc, the Times of London reported Tuesday.The newspaper said the leaked ...

  • Russia Malta

    300 Russian students to study in Malta after deal reached with Maltese educational institute

    300 Russian students will come to study in Malta in 2018 thanks to an agreement reached between a local educational institute and a Russian university. The agreement was signed between Domain Academy and the National Research University, in the presence of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. Dr Muscat is currently in ...

  • Malta

    iSurvey: 77.4% rate the present traffic situation in Malta as bad

    A vast majority of respondents have rated the present traffic situation in Malta to be varying degrees of negative, the November edition of the iSurvey commissioned by The Malta Independent shows.Respondents were asked how they would rate the traffic situation from a scale of one to 10, one being very ...

  • USA Malta

    INDEPTH: 'We are not the socialists of the Mintoff times' - Minister George Vella

    Foreign Minister George Vella said that he is uncomfortable with high-rise buildings, saying that we are experiencing "over-development".Interviewed by Pierre Portelli, The Malta Independent's business and content director, in this week's edition of INDEPTH, Dr Vella said he is not against development but he would like to see a better ...

  • Malta

    More than 1,300 expected to take part in EPP Congress in Malta next March

    The European People’s Party’s Congress, which is made up of more than 1,300 people, will meet in Malta next March. Representatives of the parties forming part of the EPP were chosen during a Political Assembly that was held in Brussels. The Congress will be held in Malta on 29 and ...

  • Malta

    Editorial: Planning reconstruction from the bottom up

    To look at them, the photos showing a reconstructed Paceville and St George’s Bay are nice to look at – wide roads left for pedestrians, gleaming towers or skyscrapers, palm trees and people enjoying themselves.Could not be better. A dream.It is only when you try to marry this view of ...

  • USA Malta

    Opinion: Pseudo social justice - Not in my name - Gejtu Vella

    In the political arena it looks as if it is the same the world all over.  The biggest shock in the US electoral history has started to sink in.  One hopes that President-elect Donald Trump’s political distasteful rhetoric during the electoral campaign will be withdrawn.  To be fair, in his ...