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Former Żebbuġ mayor cleared
Former Żebbuġ mayor Brian Bonnici has been acquitted of charges that he used council-paid staff to carry out works at his house. Mr Bonnici had resigned from the council after allegations surfaced in the Nationalist Party media that he was abusing...
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Grant agreements for NGOs
Twenty-three voluntary organisations and NGOs received grant agreements for small projects and initiatives which they will be carrying out throughout the coming year. The grants were awarded by Civil Liberties Minister Helena Dalli under the Small...
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Health Minister behind decision to recruit Dalli
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Barroso ‘needs to explain’
Alternattiva Demokratika has called for an open hearing to take place at the European Parliament over John Dalli’s accusation that the EU’s anti-fraud agency OLAF and the tobacco company Swedish Match were “out to get him”. In a letter to European...
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Two admit to human trafficking charges
Two Syrians pleaded guilty yesterday to human trafficking while two Maltese denied similar charges in a connected case. Mahmoud Hamad, 28, and Issam Hamad, 29, both residents of Marsascala, were accused of trying to help some people to land in Malta...
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Speaker in ‘historic’ meeting
Relations between Malta and the Sicilian town of Enna were discussed during an official meeting between Speaker Anġu Farrugia and the town’s mayor Paolo Garofaro. Calling the meeting “historic”, a government statement said that Dr Farrugia...
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Curbs to AG’s power seen as the next step after rights case
Common sense has been vindicated by a recent European Court of Human Rights’ decision that Maltese law should regulate the Attorney General’s discretion over which court hears drug cases, according to Judge Giovanni Bonello. It was now important...
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23 migrants rescued from drifting dinghy
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AD calls for holistic study on Gozo links
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Appeal for weed killer tests to be published
Environmental organisation Friends of the Earth has called on the Government to publish the results of tests for the presence of weed killer contamination in food samples. Last week the NGO published a study showing that nine out of 10 urine...
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Thousands rally for Erdogan amid more Turkey protests
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PM dismisses talk of early election
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras yesterday dismissed talk of an early election over the abrupt closure of the state broadcaster, which brought protests from viewers, workers, the opposition and his coalition partners. Samaras defended his...
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AFM treats bathers to a search and rescue show
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Al-Qaeda wing confirms death of two leaders
Al-Qaeda’s North African wing (Aqim) yesterday confirmed the death of two of its senior commanders in Mali earlier this year, veteran jihadist Abdelhamid Abou Zeid and brigade commander Abdallah Al Chinguetti, Mauritania’s Ani news agency said. The...
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Medserv held responsible as local agents for Agip
The Court of Appeal, composed of Chief Justice Silvio Camilleri, Mr Justice Giannino Caruana Demajo and Mr Justice Noel Cuschieri, on May 31, 2013, in the case “Middle Sea Insurance plc in its own name and as subrogated in the rights of Salvo Grima...
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Rebel brigades checking loyalist advances in Aleppo
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Barrier crash
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Car bombs, shootings kill 30 in Iraq
Attacks across Iraq targeting mainly Shi’ite Muslims killed at least 30 people yesterday, police and medics said, intensifying fears of a descent into an all-out sectarian war. Ten years after the US-led invasion that toppled Sunni leader Saddam...
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North Korea calls for talks with US