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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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Disaster captain must face trial
The captain of the Costa Concordia has been ordered to stand trial over the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people. Francesco Schettino will be the only defendant in the trial, which begins on...
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Edwin Borg Costanzi
Charles Farrugia, University Ombudsman, writes: Edwin Borg Costanzi is no longer with us. Yet, the press seems to have ignored completely the passing away of the man who laid the foundations for a modern University at Tal-Qroqq. Many regarded the...
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World briefs
James Bond’s geiger counter wristwatch from hit movie Thunderball has turned up following years of mystery about its whereabouts after it was found at a car boot sale. The prop was key to the plot of the film as it helped the agent locate stolen...
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What’s on today
At Lily Agius Gallery, Sliema, The Spring Art Collection: Celia Borg Cardona, Debbie Caruana Dingli, Joan Zammit Cutajar and Kenneth Zammit Tabona exhibit their latest collections of watercolour and oil paintings. At St James Cavalier, Valletta, WW,...
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Russian animal astronauts return to Earth
A Russian space capsule containing mice, sand eels, geckos, gerbils, snails, fish and plants has returned to Earth after a month-long mission in space. The Bion-M craft performed a parachute-assisted landing on a field in the Orenberg region, 1,200...
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Video - Soldier hacked to death in London terror attack
Two suspected terrorists "brutally murdered" a soldier in broad daylight in London this afternoon, prompting a major emergency response from the British Government. One of the men behind the attack in Woolwich, south east London, was filmed wielding...
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Malta backs EU Treaty amendments proposed by Ireland
The Foreign Affairs Committee agreed today to recommend ratification of amendments to the EU Treaty of Lisbon which address concerns by the Republic of Ireland on the Right of Life and the Family, the right of member states to retain their...
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