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USA Malta Pakistan
Clerical sex abuse victims to seek relocation of fundraising marathon
The victims of sexual abuse carried out by priests at St Joseph Home in Santa Venera decades ago will seek legal help to stop an annual fundraising marathon from being held at the premises. Speaking to The Malta Independent yesterday, one of the victims, Lawrence Grech, said that seeing the ...
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USA Panama
PN leadership contestant Adrian Delia pledges 'a new way', with 'fresh energy'
Contestant for the PN Leadership Adrian Delia launched his campaign for the Nationalist Party leadership this morning, saying that he is sure that an MP will cede his parliamentary seat should he be elected to the post.Being a new face in the political scene, Delia sees this as an advantage ...
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USA Regno Unito
FIRST: Sleeping with the enemy - How cyber criminals are the new monsters under our beds
"Hey @CloudPets, someone named S. Atan keeps sending messages to my kids' cloud pets and the app won't let me block him. Please help."This chilling tweet was posted by a father complaining that his child's smart toy had been hacked by a stranger who was posting unwanted messages to his ...
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USA Malta
Women with drug problems may hesitate to ask for help due to child custody fears, drugs expert says
The annual European Drug Report published last month showed that there is a surprisingly large disparity in Malta between the number of male and the number of female drug users enrolling in specialised drug treatment programmes. In fact, the report for Malta states that fewer than one-fifth of such clients ...
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Brasile
Prefeitura do Rio assina acordo para repasse de verbas a escolas de samba
O prefeito do Rio de Janeiro, Marcelo Crivella, assinou segunda-feira (17/7) um acordo com a Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba (Liesa), garantindo um repasse de R$ 13 milhões para as agremiações. Cada uma das 13 escolas receberá R$ 1 milhão, em cinco parcelas, até novembro deste ano, para que ...
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USA
The Cost of a Hot Economy in California: A Severe Housing Crisis
An explosion in costs has emerged as a central problem for the state, and state and local governments are pondering a series of measures to correct course.
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Turchia
Top business organization set to bring giant venture funds together with Anatolian firms
Turkey’s largest business organization, the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB), is set to bring $1 billion worth venture capital funds together with Turkish companies based in Anatolia with high growth potentials in the next two years, its president has said.
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Cina Iran
Renault sales rise to record level amid boost in Iran, China
French carmaker Renault posted record vehicle sales for the first half as a sustained product offensive lifted global deliveries by 10.4 percent - with a well-timed China SUV launch and a renewed push into Iran both contributing.
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Cina
China’s GDP growth tops forecasts on strong investment, consumption
China’s economy grew faster than expected in the second quarter as industrial output and consumption picked up and investment remained strong, though analysts expect slower growth over the rest of the year as policymakers seek to reduce financial risk.
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Turchia
Turkey runs nearly $7 bln budget deficit in first half of 2017: Minister
Turkey ran a budget deficit of 25.2 billion Turkish Liras (about $6.9 billion) this January to June with fiscal measures to stimulate the economy costing nearly 12 billion liras ($3.3 billion), Finance Minister Naci Ağbal said on July 17.