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Arriva avoids questions, humour takes over
Arriva today avoided questions on whether there would be compensation for passengers injured in yesterday's three-bus crash in Floriana. Meanwhile, some people were seeing the lighter side of things,...
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Austrian incest rapist Fritzl divorces
Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, has divorced his wife of 52 years for failing to visit him in prison, a magazine reported....
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Police sergeant compensated for hit-and-run
A police sergeant who was run over in a hit-and-run accident while she was investigating suspicious activity, has been awarded over €5,000 in damages after a court ruled that the driver of the car had...
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Updated: Mepa allows development in part of old Ghaxaq villa's garden
(Adds FAA statement) The Mepa board this morning granted a full development permit for the building of three blocks of flats, each two storeys high, in part of the garden of Villa Mekrech in Hal...
View ArticleIran filling nuclear bunker with centrifuges - diplomats
Iran appears to have nearly finished installing centrifuges at its underground nuclear plant, Western diplomats say, potentially boosting its capacity to make weapons-grade uranium if it chose to do...
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Allegri faces moment of truth against Genoa
Crisis-hit AC Milan go into Saturday's match at home to Genoa with five defeats in eight Serie A games behind them and amid widespread speculation that coach Massimiliano Allegri will be fired if they...
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Marsa residents fume over sewage problems
Marsa local council is to file a judicial protest against Transport Malta and the Transport Ministry over sewage problems in il-Pitkali, Zerafa, is-Sajjieda, Fra Diegu and Patri Felicjan Bilocca...
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Lifecyclists leave for Brisbane
The participants in this year's Lifecycle Challenge left Malta for Brisbane in Australia this afternoon. The 10-day challenge will see 33 cyclists cover 1,900 kilometres from Brisbane to Melbourne,...
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EPP asks for 'real reason' for resignation of OLAF Supervisory Committee...
The EPP group coordinator in the Budgetary Control Committee of the European Parliament has demanded full transparency on the reason for the resignation of the chairman of the OLAF Supervisory...
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PL billboard on power station
The Labour Party has launched a new billboard saying that €157 million have already been spent on a faulty power station. The PL said that the people were being made to pay for GonziPN's mistakes and...
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BOV announces record financial performance
Shortly after the close of today's trading session, Bank of Valletta plc published its full-year results for the financial year ended September 30. The bank registered a record pre-tax profit of €110...
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Bay Music Awards finalists
The finalists for the ninth edition of the Bay Music Awards, set to take place at the Bay Arena on December 12, are the following: Viewer’s Choice SMS Number to vote: 50 615 300 Best Newcomer Planet...
View ArticleCurrent challenges in primary health care
Some 80 per cent of the people who sought assistance at the Health Awareness Clinic in Mtarfa had weight problems, nurse Rebecca Cachia Fearne said this morning. Ms Cachia Fearne was speaking at a...
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EP asks for additional information on Dalli's resignation
The European Parliament has asked for additional information on John Dalli's resignation from Health Commissioner. The conference of presidents of the European Parliament, comprising the president and...
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Opportunity for political reform in the Med 'unprecedented' - PM
The opportunity for political reform in the Mediterranean is unprecedented, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this afternoon. Giving a public talk "The Mediterranean – An Opportunity?", at the London...
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Enthroned Madonna and Child painting restored
A scientific conservation exercise on one of the finest and most significant Early Renaissance paintings in Malta has been completed. The exercise, with the support of Banif Bank (Malta) plc, was...
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German politician had lobbied Dalli on directive
Former Health Commissioner John Dalli had been lobbied on the tobacco directive by German politician Edmund Stoiber, who heads the European Commission’s high-level group on cutting administrative...
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Man fined for dangerous driving
A 56-year-old man from Kalkara has been fined €700 after he was found guilty of driving dangerously and causing an accident in which a motorcyclist suffered a five per cent disability. The accident...
View ArticleHeavy fighting before Syria truce
Heavy fighting has preceded the dawn start of a proposed truce in Syria's 19-month civil war, activists said. Battles were still in progress at daybreak today, the beginning of a four-day Muslim...
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Go launches rapido
Go has launched rapido - a new series of state-of-the-art superfast internet services delivered through fibre optic technology. The rapido service reaches speeds of up to 200 Megabits per second,...
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