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Russia USA Malta
Nearly all Air Malta flights will cost €39 after change in luggage policy, Mizzi announces
Air Malta has changed its luggage policy and launched the 'Go Light' initiative which allows customers to choose whether or not to travel with a hold luggage, which will drop the price of a fare down to €39 when travelling with only hand luggage.Prior to today, a hold luggage was ...
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USA Malta
EP agrees on draft law making ATMs and banking services more better available to disabled persons
Members of the European Parliament have been hard at work to approve a draft bill which would require member states to make key products, such as ATMs, phones and banking services more accessible for persons with disabilities.In a communication published by the EP, it made reference to the roughly 80 ...
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Cina Russia USA Iran Venezuela
At UN, Trump threatens 'total destruction' of North Korea
President Donald Trump, in a combative debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly, threatened the "total destruction'" of North Korea if it does not abandon its drive toward nuclear weapons.Trump, who has ramped up his rhetoric throughout the escalating crisis with North Korea, told the murmuring crowd at the U.N. ...
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Regno Unito Malta
Maltese man accused of raping 14-year-old-daughter of partner pleads not guilty, denied bail
A 57-year-old man from Senglea has been accused of raping the 14-year-old daughter of the partner he had been living with on three occasions, without the consent of the minor.Prosecuting inspector told presiding Magistrate Aaron Bugeja that they received the information from Agenzija Appogg, a state social welfare department, which ...
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Canada
Contraband cigarettes, drugs and counterfeit funds intercepted by customs officials last week
Last week was a busy one for customs officials stationed at the central mail room at the Qormi post office, a statement read.A package from Canada containing 12 marijuana packets and two aluminium foil packets containing blue pills were found. The packages were passed over to the police.Another package was ...
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Australia Malta
Science in the City on 29 September, focusing on a range of events from debates to Sci-Fi series
This year's Malta's Science and Arts festival, Science in the City, being held in Valletta on Friday 29th September between 6pm and midnight, is focusing on a range of events designed for adults from debates to the Sci-Fi series Black Mirror.One can start the evening with a relaxed stroll through ...
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Regno Unito Malta Irlanda
FIRST word with Stefy Zammit... Just glancing at her website will make your mouth water
You will never find me... sharing my bottle of water.I will not function in the morning without... half-an-hour of my own peace and solitude before the world wakes up.The best invention is... the internet.What makes me happiest is... Jack my beagle, family and friends.My favourite space in my house is... ...
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Etiopia
High-Level Committee Finds Zero Irregularity Yet NPL Soars
[Addis Fortune] An effort by a high-level committee to investigate a violation of law led to a surge in non-performing loan (NPL) ratio of the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) bore no fruit, sources close to the case disclosed to Fortune.
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Francia Etiopia
France Swears 2 Billion Br to Finance Controversial Abattoir
[Addis Fortune] The French Development Agency (AFD) pledges close to two billion Birr financing to modernise and relocate Addis Abeba Abattoirs Enterprise on 20ha land within nine kilometres radius from the runway of Bole International Airport- the largest international airport in the country.
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Brasile
Brazil Residential Sales Down for Sixth Straight Month
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to the latest FipeZAP residential real estate sales index, which tracks prices in Brazil’s twenty biggest cities, residential real estate sales prices maintained its downward trajectory in August, registering a marginal decline of -0.12 percent. August’s decline represents the ...