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Policy changed to allow hotels in tourism zones build an extra two floors
Hotels in tourism zones can now apply to build an extra two floors after a policy change. The hotels can now build an extra two floors to increase their bed stock and improve facilities. Announcing the new policy, planning parliamentary secretary...
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Nissan to recall 841,000 vehicles due to steering wheel glitch
Nissan Motor Co Ltd will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, as a result of a steering wheel glitch, Japan's No.2 automaker said. Nissan is recalling certain models of the Micra compact...
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Muscat wants PN pay rise refunded in full
The Prime Minister has called on former Nationalist ministers to refund in full the pay rise they gave themselves in May 2008. PN leader Simon Busuttil should convince them to do so “as they gave the impression that they did,” a spokesman for Joseph...
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Brussels ditches proposal to aid Malta relocate migrants
Hopes that Malta would get help to relocate irregular migrants were dashed as “harsh resistance” forced a change of plans. Speaking at the European Parliament, European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said the Commission would not...
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Press digest
The following are the top stories in the Maltese and overseas press. The Times of Malta says Malta faces the second EU action over the high deficit. The Malta Independent says the prime minister is upbeat that Malta’s deficit will slip below 3 per...
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Shock over London killing
The killing of a British soldier on the streets of London in a suspected Islamist attack has shocked the nation. The victim was hit by a car in broad daylight, then hacked to death by two men wielding machetes and knives. Witnesses said the...
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Britain investigating possible Nigerian link in London attack
Britain is investigating a possible Nigerian link to attackers suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London while shouting Islamic slogans, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Two suspects...
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Lifesaving treatment for pregnant women: ‘Catholic teaching usually followed’
Catholic moral teaching is “usually followed” when a pregnant woman is in need of lifesaving treatment that can harm her unborn baby, according to national health ethics committee chairman Pierre Mallia. Abortion is strictly forbidden in Malta and...
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A trip around the world in their own classrooms
Children at San Andrea School took some time out from class yesterday to get a taste of multiculturalism and ethnic diversity by visiting ‘international’ stalls set up on the school grounds in L-Imselliet. From nibbling on Parisian pain d’épices to...
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Muscat welcomes EU resolve on energy prices
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat yesterday welcomed the EU’s “clearest commitment” to date to address the prices of energy, which he said were a challenge to competitiveness and the lifestyle of citizens. Speaking at the end of a summit in Brussels that...
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Sweden’s capital city is hit by worst riots in years
Hundreds of youths have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden’s worst disorder in years. On Tuesday night, a police station in the Jakobsberg area in the...
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Pussy Riot member starts hunger strike
A member of the Pussy Riot band who was jailed over a protest against President Vladimir Putin in a Russian cathedral said yesterday she was starting a hunger strike after she was barred from a parole hearing. Maria Alyokhina also told her lawyers...
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Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed yesterday and President Mohamed Morsi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. The abduction underlined the threat posed by...
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Soldier is hacked to death in apparent militant attack
A man was hacked to death in a street near an army barracks in London yesterday in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a politically motivated attack. The victim was a British soldier killed in broad daylight by unidentified...
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US may increase support for rebels
Washington threatened yesterday to increase support for Syria’s rebels if President Bashar al-Assad refuses to discuss a political end to a civil war that is spreading across borders. Rebels called for reinforcements to combat an “invasion” by...
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Rescuers search Oklahoma town ruins after tornado
Rescue workers with sniffer dogs picked through the ruins of an Oklahoma town yesterday to ensure no survivors remained buried after a deadly tornado left thousands homeless and trying to salvage what was left of their belongings. “Yesterday I was...
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Iran rulers disqualify Hashemi Rafsanjani
The Iranian Guardian Council, a vetting body, has disqualified ex-President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, despite his hefty political role in the past three decades, as well as Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s former chief of...
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FBI shoot man questioned on recent Boston bombings
An FBI agent has shot and killed a Florida man who turned violent while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombings early yesterday, the bureau said. A friend of the dead man identified him as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando, a...
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Vatican watchdog investigates possible money laundering
The Vatican’s new financial watchdog said yesterday it had detected six possible attempts to use the Holy See to launder money last year, citing this as proof of its commitment to transparency. The head of the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence...
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Announcements
Mr MARIO CORRIERI and Ms CLAUDIA CASTILLO The marriage between MARIO and CLAUDIA was celebrated on May 23, 1963 at Balzan parish church. God bless you both and thank you for all you have done for us. Gabriella and Richard, Daniela and Frederick,...
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