• Grecia Cipro

    The Cyprus guarantees problem

    Probably excluding the academic-turned Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and a minority of like-minded other politicians from all ideologies, particularly conservatives, Greece appears to have washed its hands of Cyprus.

  • Giappone Iran

    Official says Iran will only pay half price for new Boeing jetliners

    Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting the deputy transport minister as saying that his county will only pay half of the announced price for 80 new Boeing planes, given the reductions in its purchasing options. According to the Sunday report, Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan says that despite an initial $16.8 ...

  • Giappone

    Government eyeing tougher penalties for fuel economy data manipulation

    The government is aiming to toughen penalties for automakers that make false reports about fuel economy data, including a drastic increase in fines, following false reporting by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Suzuki Motor Corp., a government source said Sunday. As one measure to crack down on such illegal activity, the ...

  • Giappone

    French farmers turn to electronic ‘spy’ oysters for help

    Electronic spies come in all shapes and sizes, but none is as funny looking as an oyster impersonator called the Flex Spy now infiltrating the waters off western France. Looking for all the world like the bivalves it is protecting, the plastic imposter is fitted with a circuit board that ...

  • Giappone

    Denso, NEC to tie up on self-driving technology for automobiles

    Major auto parts maker Denso Corp. will team up with NEC Corp. on developing self-driving automobile technology that makes use of artificial intelligence, sources at the two companies said. With NEC boasting expertise in developing artificial intelligence and software, Denso plans to use its information technology expertise to accelerate research ...

  • Giappone Grecia

    Eurozone clears way to resume debt relief for Greece

    Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Saturday said Greece had cleared up doubts and could expect a positive decision on debt relief, defusing a row over surprise handouts announced by Athens. “Happy to conclude that we have cleared the way for ESM to go ahead with decision-making procedures for short term ...

  • Brasile

    Itamaraty busca brasileiros que desapareceram ao deixar Bahamas rumo EUA

    O Ministério das Relações Exteriores continua as buscas por 19 brasileiros que desapareceram ao tentar entrar ilegalmente nos Estados Unidos. A tentativa ocorreu em novembro, por meio de uma travessia em um barco que saiu de Bahamas rumo a Miami. De acordo com o MRE, ainda não há informações sobre ...

  • Brasile Egitto Malta

    Remembering Wyndham Grech, lawyer and Malta’s pioneer pilot

    The year 2016 marks two related anniversaries: the first is the centenary of the first Maltese to register as a pilot and fly in the Royal Flying Corps, and the second, the death of that pilot, Squadron leader Wyndham Grech, 60 years ago. Grech’s professional calling was to the practice of ...

  • USA Malta

    They said it here in The Sunday Times of Malta

    In the first of a two-part feature Anthony Manduca lists some of the comments and controversial statements made during interviews with The Sunday Times of Malta in 2016. "It makes no difference to me who is in government" - General Workers’ Union general secretary Josef Bugeja, shortly after he took the helm ...

  • Malta

    Sanctuary law in Malta

    In the past, churches and chapels were places of refuge where wrongdoers could seek sanctuary from arrest. This idea had its roots in recorded references in the Old Testament to people seeking sanctuary at the altar of temples. By around the fourth century, the right to sanctuary had become formalised ...