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Cina USA Giappone Singapore Corea del Sud Regno Unito
Clues scarce after half-brother of North Korea leader killed in Malaysia
The astonishing assassination of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother rippled across Asia on Wednesday as Malaysian investigators scoured airport surveillance video for clues about the two female assailants and rival South Korea offered up a single, shaky motive: paranoia.Kim Jong Nam, 46, was targeted Monday in a shopping ...
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Spagna Malta
Updated: Press law revamp will abolish criminal libel, civil libel fine to increase to €20,000
Minister for Justice Owen Bonnici, together with Minister for Education and Employment Evarist Bartolo, today presented a bill which proposes a reform in media law. The bill proposes a number of changes which will affect journalists and civil libel cases.Explaining the gist of the 22-page document, Minister Owen Bonnici said ...
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Regno Unito
12 people drowned in Maltese waters in 2016, 23 died in traffic accidents
12 people drowned in Maltese waters in 2016, many of them foreigners, according to information tabled in Parliament. The information was given by Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela in reply to a parliamentary question by PL MP Anthony Agius Decelis.The first drowning took place in Qala, Gozo, on New Year’s ...
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Malta
Finch trapping is indefensible – CABS
The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) today praised the European Commission for its efforts to take Malta to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its controversial decision to allow finch trapping. “Finch trapping with clap nets is neither selective nor sustainable, it is accompanied by animal cruelty, it destroys ...
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Spagna Malta
Editorial: Playing around with garnishee orders
After the local and international uproar caused by his demand that garnishee orders be imposed on Daphne Caruana Galizia following the opening of libel cases by him and by his assistant, Minister Chris Cardona gave the impression he relented.Not against DCG, of course, but in general. He said he would ...
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Malta
FIRST: The baking brotherhood
It is a recipe going back 30,000 years, a staple food ubiquitous to tables everywhere. Bread has become such an integral part of western culture that is has permeated our religions, folklore and - quite clearly - our cuisine.In the same way that one associates baguettes with France the ħobza ...
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Malta
UHM suspends Gozo law court industrial action pending meeting with government today
The UHM - Voice of the workers suspended industrial action at the Gozo law courts pending a meeting which will take place today at Castille.An industrial dispute had been registered by the union, primarily over health and safety issues at the courts, a UHM representative had told this newsroom. Speaking ...
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Belgio
Survol: l'aéroport de Liège s'avance comme "solution pour Bruxelles"
Les responsables de Liège Airport ont écrit au Premier ministre cette semaine pour faire offre de service alors que la problématique du survol de Bruxelles peine toujours à faire consensus.
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USA
UN Human Rights Office launches US$253 million funding appeal
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Country: WorldThe appeal is the most ambitious to date as the work of the Office is "dramatically and chronically underfunded," the High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said. UN Human Rights Office launches USD 253M funding appeal – most ambitious to date Zeid ...
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Uruguay
Por octavo año Carat lidera el mercado mundial, según RECMA
La agencia de medios CARAT obtuvo la primera posición en el ranking cualitativo de prestigiosa auditora internacional RECMA.