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    Foreign banks face new EU set-up to allow more scrutiny

    Nineteen foreign banks in the European Union will need to set up new holding companies so that regulators can scrutinise them more closely, an EU discussion paper says, mirroring steps taken by the United States. The European Commission proposed last November that banks headquartered outside the bloc consolidate their EU activities ...

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    Opinion: The journey together - Adrian Delia

    I am acutely aware it is too early for acceptance speeches. The PN’s final decision on who should lead it is yet a long way ahead. But I feel it is already time to express gratitude and humility as the party’s General Council, its highest organ, has nominated my friend ...

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    Opinion: A clear choice - Chris Said

    In less than two weeks, more than 20,000 members of the Nationalist Paper will have to make a clear choice. I will be campaigning with all my energy to convince our members that I’m the bestchoice to lead forward a party that will standfor all that Labouris not. With me ...

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    PN-PD coalition was based on an ill-founded assumption – Francis Zammit Dimech

    Newly elected Nationalist Party MEP Francis Zammit Dimech thinks that the PN coalition with PartitDemokratiku was based on an ill-founded assumption that the party would gain enough votes to narrow the gap or even win the last general election. In an interview with The Malta Independent, which was carried out ...

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    Man dies after rushing into Burning Man festival flames

    A man rushed past layers of security officers into a massive fire at the Burning Man festival's signature ceremony, suffering burns that left him dead just hours later.Authorities are investigating the death of Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, who broke through a two-layer security perimeter during the Man Burn event in ...

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    South Korea simulates attack on North's nuke site after test

    South Korea's military has fired missiles into the sea in a simulation of an attack on North Korea's nuclear test site a day after Pyongyang set off its largest ever nuclear test explosion.In Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis bluntly warned that the U.S. will answer any threat from the ...

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    Malta Chamber makes ‘pro-competitiveness’ proposals for 2018 Budget

    In its proposals to the Finance Minister as part of the pre-Budget consultation process, the Malta Chamber highlighted the fact that energy prices for medium sized companies in Malta are 42% higher than the EU average. This made the price for energy which is being paid by Maltese businesses the ...

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    It is time for government to substantially invest in social housing - GWU

    The General Workers Union has said it is time for the government to embark on a substantial in social housing, in its pre-budget proposals.The lack of development in social housing was a common criticism from the opposition during the previous legislature, who often criticised Prime Minister Joseph Muscat with claims ...

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    I DO Magazine: This moment forever

    The Couple: Katya & Shaun8 July 2016Katya Grech, 25, Sales and Revenue Executive at be.HOTEL and Shaun Grech, 27, Director at Incredible Web held their ceremony at Parish Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Mellieħa followed by a reception held at Palazzo Nobile, NaxxarKatya came to Malta for a ...

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    NGOs call for independent international inquiry on Yemen

    Source: Amnesty International, CIVICUS, World Organisation Against Torture, Society for Threatened Peoples, CARE, International Service for Human Rights, Saferworld, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, MADRE, Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, PAX Country: YemenSixty-two organizations state that an inquiry should be given the mandate to establish the facts ...