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Updated: 'Moonlight' wins best picture at botched Academy Awards
Oscar winner, take two.Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" — not, as it turned out, "La La Land" — won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset and an unprecedented fiasco that saw one winner swapped for another while the "La La Land" producers were in mid-speech.Presenters Warren Beatty ...
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Bill Paxton, charismatic actor with roles in 'Apollo 13' and 'Titanic', dies aged 61
Bill Paxton, a prolific and charismatic actor who had memorable roles in such blockbusters as "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" while also cherishing his work in "One False Move" and other low-budget movies and in the HBO series "Big Love," has died from complications due to surgery. He was 61.A family ...
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Malta
Cacopardo insists on €16.5 million planning gain from Malta Freeport Terminals
AD Deputy Chairperson Carmel Cacopardo, representing the Birzebbugia local council, insists that the €955,000 Malta Freeport Terminals was ordered to pay as a planning gain be upped to €16.5 million.Carmel Cacopardo was presenting his arguments before the Planning Appeals and Review Tribunal this afternoon.The Environment and Planning Commission had ordered ...
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Greens welcome revision of anti-money laundering directive
Alternattiva Demokratika today welcomed the revision of the Anti-Money laundering directive at Committee stage in the European Parliament.In a statement, AD Chairperson, Prof . Arnold Cassola, said: "A public register for companies and trusts will make it more difficult for people like Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri and Brian Tonna to ...
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Malta
Swieqi murder: Police focusing on businessman’s personal issues
The police are focusing on personal issues as they continue their investigation into the murder of a businessman in Swieqi on Monday.The Russian partner of the businessman, David Abela, 51, who was found murdered inside his Swieqi home on Monday, has been extensively questioned by the police, sources told The Malta ...
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Minister Bartolo believes temp employment agency for migrants must be tweaked with time
Employment and Education Minister Evarist Bartolo believes that the temporary employment agency to be set up for migrants cannot be overly complicated from the start, and improvements would have to be made with time.Mr Bartolo was responding to questions by the media at a press conference where he outlined the ...
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Former UK PM Major slams 'unrealistic' Brexit expectations
Former Prime Minister John Major lambasted Britain's preparations for leaving the European Union on Monday, saying the government must offer more charm and less "cheap rhetoric" if it wants to get a good deal.Major, who led the U.K.'s Conservative government between 1990 and 1997, accused pro-Brexit politicians of giving Britons ...
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Malta’s Willa Naylor story inspires: Other nations shaking heads at US transgender toilet battle
Willa Naylor’s story is serving as an inspiration to other nations, the Associated Press reports.The transgender child two years ago published a book, which goes by the name 'Truly Willa', describing Willa's story as she experiences this drastic change in her life at a very young age.The Associated Press is ...
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Editorial: Konrad Mizzi - Fake politics
Politics is a means to serve people and politicians should enter politics only with one aim in mind - to serve the nation and represent the electorate in the best honourable way. Politicians who, the day after they get elected, rush to open secret accounts in shady jurisdictions and lobby behind ...
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Regno Unito
Firm says several mistakes caused Oscars best picture gaffe
The accounting firm responsible for the integrity of the Academy Awards said Monday that its staffers did not move quickly enough to correct the biggest error in Oscars history — the mistaken announcement of the best picture winner.PwC, formerly Price Waterhouse Coopers, wrote in a statement that several mistakes were ...