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USA
Why America’s tax and trade debate is wrong
Policy should concentrate on creating local supply chains that enrich the economy
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Cina Russia
Russia and China quietly build business bonds
Beijing oil and gas investment gives Moscow alternative cash source
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Malta
Home education activists find it ‘exhausting’ lobbying for home-schooling rights
Activists lobbying for the educational choice to home-school their children are finding it ‘exhausting’, according to the chairperson of the Malta Home Education Association (MHEA) Abigail Giuffre, who is hoping for better dialogue with the Education Ministry. With the start of a new scholastic year literally just around the corner, ...
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USA
Merkel seen winning 4th term, nationalists strong in Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc was on course Sunday for a lackluster victory in Germany's national election while the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party was heading for a triumphant entry into parliament, projections suggested.Merkel's main center-left rivals, the Social Democrats, were set to slump to a historic low after Sunday's ...
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USA
OPM denies foreign website report PM Muscat is in hospital
The Office of the Prime Minister this afternoon denied a report appearing in a foreign website that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was taken ill and is in a New York Hospital.The OPM did not indicate the website involved, simply saying that its report is false.Earlier, OPM chief of communications Kurt ...
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Malta
Delia’s road to MP open as all 7th district PN MPs pledge to give up their casual election seat
PN leader Adrian Delia is practically guaranteed to obtain a parliamentary seat and become Opposition Leader after Jean Pierre Debono decided to resign his 7th district seat and all nationalist candidates eligible for the upcoming casual election declaring that they would trade places with their leader. The Malta Independent on ...
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Malta
Muscat ‘needs clear answer’ if Delia ‘accepts invitation to Waste Management Committee'
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning said that he still awaits a clear answer as to whether Nationalist Party Leader Adrian Delia has accepted his invite to be part of the Waste Management Committee or not.Muscat was speaking in a live phone interview on One Radio."I still have not understood ...
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Regno Unito Malta
Pain expert frustrated cannabis discussion ‘lumped’ together with recreation drug use talks
A doctor who is advocating the right to prescribe CBD oil, a component of the cannabis plant, as a way of helping certain patients manage their pain, cannot understand why the discussion on the subject is now being included in the talks regarding the use of recreational drug use.Dr Andrew ...
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Russia
Israeli NGO takes special needs services to Russia
Shalva forges partnership with Russian Jewish Congress.
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Cina
China rust belt opens door wider to foreign investors
Trucks carrying hi-tech car components rumble in and out the gates of an American industrial zone in the heart of China’s rust belt -- using roads that the city especially renovated for the complex.