• Malta

    Update: Peter Micallef wins casual election to fill seat vacated by Jean Pierre Debono

    Peter Micallef has won the casual election for the parliamentary seat vacated by PN MP Jean Pierre Debono's after receiving 1719 votes.The winning candidate is required to reach 50% + 1 of Debono's votes in the last general election,  which is 1653 votes.Micallef is expected to immediately hand over the seat ...

  • USA Myanmar

    Brother: Las Vegas gunman was wealthy real-estate investor

    Stephen Paddock (above) lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He was a wealthy real-estate investor, recently shipped his 90-year-old mother a walker and liked to play high-stakes video poker in Las Vegas.Nothing in his background suggests why he would have been ...

  • USA Myanmar

    Watch: Gunman had 'bump-stock' device that could speed fire

    The gunman who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas had two "bump-stocks" that could have converted semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic ones, officials said.The devices have attracted scrutiny in recent years from authorities.California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has long railed against them. Several ...

  • USA Malta

    PL, PN agree on amendments to Competition Act based on EU directive regulating damages

    MPs from both sides of the political divide were in agreement this evening as Parliament debated amendments to the Competition Act, required due to an EU Directive.The Directive is regarding the procedures which govern action for damages under national law for infringements in EU competition law.Due to the rare sight ...

  • Malta

    Government should have terminated the PPP landscaping contract – NAO

     The National Audit Office, in a report on the 15-year-old Public-Private-Partnership between government and environmental landscapes consortium limited (ELC) due to the unfavourable terms for the former, and contractual breaches.“The MELP Monitoring Unit, Government’s monitoring arm within this Contract, is understaffed and cannot cope with the administrative and operational burdens associated ...

  • Malta

    Decision on whether to fire John Bundy rests with PBS, Prime Minister says

    Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this afternoon told journalists that the decision on whether to sack PBS CEO John Bundy rests with PBS alone. Muscat was speaking after a visit to HSBC bank in Zabbar. Last week The Malta Independent reported that the PBS board was threatening to resign if Bundy ...

  • Nigeria

    Arrest of commissioner, AG unconstitutional – Ekiti

    Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Ekiti State Government on Monday in Abuja described the arrest of two of its commissioners by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as unconstitutional. The Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and the Accountant General of the state, Yemisi Owolabi, were picked by the EFCC for allegedly ...

  • USA Nigeria

    US buys $2.7bn Nigerian crude in six months

    ’Femi Asu The import of Nigeria’s crude oil by the United States increased by 32.1 per cent to 52.36 million barrels in the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2016. The US Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy Department, revealed in its ...

  • Nigeria

    $24bn crude swap: Ex-PPMC boss to forfeit nine Dubai properties

    Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has begun fresh moves to seize nine Dubai properties worth about N1.6bn, traced to a former Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, Mr. Haruna Momoh. Already, the EFCC has obtained an interim forfeiture order from a Federal High Court ...

  • Indonesia

    Polygamy dating app draws criticism in Indonesia

    A Tinder-style dating app for polygamists has sparked controversy in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation — but its developer says he “just wants to help” unmarried middle-aged women. Indonesian law defines marriage as between a man and a woman but polygamy is tolerated in certain circumstances, despite being ...