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Cina
China’s Didi shakes up car-hailing app business
Shift to premium services reflects new challenges in ride-sharing arena
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Spagna Malta
Prime Minister calls Simon Busuttil a liar
The Egrant story continued to hold sway in the hothouse of Maltese politics.On the one hand, the revelation by MaltaToday that the company Egrant about which many had suspected is owned by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, actually belongs to Brtian Tonna, the head of Nexia BT, was openly disbelieved by ...
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Panama Malta
Beppe Fenech Adami inquiry to be submitted Monday, same day as PANA committee meeting, OPM confirms
Judge JD Camilleri will be submitting the board of inquiry’s report on the CapitalOne investigation tomorrow (Monday) following the four-week extension the board had been granted, a spokesperson from the Office of the Prime Minister has told The Malta Independent on Sunday. The spokesperson did not give an exact date as ...
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Panama Malta
Busuttil cites reasons why Brian Tonna admitting ownership of Egrant is ‘complete lie’, PL reacts
Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil today questioned why the journalist who quoted Brian Tonna from Nexia BT as saying he owns the elusive third Panama based company Egrant Inc did not refer to an article penned one year earlier, in which Mr Tonna said he could not divulge client details due ...
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Malta
Three months into the job as judge, Toni Abela still to hear first case
Former Labour Party Deputy Leader Toni Abela, who was appointed to the bench back in November, has not yet heard a single case. The Malta Independent on Sunday is well-informed that the matter has been raised with Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri, who is reportedly mulling over exactly which sector of ...
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Russia Malta
Editorial: Government jumps the gun on internet freedoms
In its headlong rush to defuse the rather nasty situation created by Minister and Labour Party Deputy Leader Chris Cardona when he took the utterly draconian move of having a garnishee order imposed on a journalist before proceedings in libel cased he filed had even begun, the government has well ...
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USA
ISIS in Libya: US military says strike provided critical intelligence
Senior US military officials say the massive airstrikes that killed more than 80 Islamic State militants in southern Libya last month generated critical computer data, documents and information from prisoner interrogations that the US can use to track and target more fighters.Marine Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the head of US Africa ...
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USA Malta
Education Council conclusions aim to provide more opportunities for young people
The EYCS (Education, Youth, Culture and Sports) Council has approved a set of conclusions on investing in Europe’s young, with a focus on education and employment opportunities. The conclusions were adopted by all member states during the Council’s education meeting, which took place yesterday in Brussels.The council meeting, chaired by ...
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Paesi Bassi
Biomassa is brandstof van de toekomst
‘Geen biomassa in kolencentrales’, schreef Trouw op 4 februari in zijn commentaar. Ook daar bestaat kennelijk het beeld dat er bossen verdwijnen door het toepassen van biomassa voor energie. Dat is niet zo. In Nederland bestaat biomassa vooral uit zaagsel van de houtindustrie en dunningshout uit plantages, dat voorheen vooral ...
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Egitto Kenya
Egypt reaching out to Kenya for better deal over the Nile
North Africans want improved trade between countries.