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Wed, 18 May 2022 10:52:00 +0200
Parties fail to name major political donors in finance declarations
Labour and PN have both failed to name a single major political donor for 2019, simply crossing out the section requesting the information in official documents.    Donation declaration forms submitted by both the PL and PN were pu...

Wed, 18 May 2022 10:33:00 +0200
Vittoriosa Museum reopens
The Vittoriosa Museum, situated in the Oratory of St Joseph in Vittoriosa Square, is reopening on May 18, post-COVID-19, on the occasion of World Museums Day. The museum forms part of Collegiate Church of St Lawrence and was founded ...

Wed, 18 May 2022 10:31:00 +0200
Italy marks 30 years since anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone was murdered
Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island. The explosion, which ripped through a stre...

Wed, 18 May 2022 10:20:00 +0200
Real GDP was up by 10% in last three months of 2021 - Central Bank
Economic activity in the last three months of 2021 continued to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with growth remaining robust and real gross domestic product rising by 10% in year-on-year terms, the Central Bank of M...

Wed, 18 May 2022 10:00:00 +0200
Russian gymnast banned for one year for pro-war ‘Z’ symbol
A Russian gymnast who sported an insignia linked to his country’s invasion of Ukraine on a medal podium has been banned for one year, a disciplinary panel said. Ivan Kuliak’s singlet had the letter ‘Z’ prominently placed as h...

Wed, 18 May 2022 09:54:00 +0200
PN registered €600,000 deficit in 2019, with media arm costing it €14m
The Nationalist party registered a deficit of €607,279 in 2019, according to its latest published accounts.   The PN approved its 2019 accounts in February 2021 and filed them with the electoral commission that same year. However,...

Wed, 18 May 2022 09:30:00 +0200
Frankfurt boosted by Lindstrom return for Europa League final
Eintracht Frankfurt received a boost on the eve of Wednesday’s Europa League final against Rangers when their speedy forward Jesper Lindstrom was declared fit to play the Seville showdown. The Dane has missed the last three weeks...

Wed, 18 May 2022 09:18:00 +0200
Finland, Sweden hand in applications to join NATO
Finland and Sweden on Wednesday handed in their bids to join the US-led alliance NATO, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine up-ended decades of military non-alignment.  "The applications you have made today are a historic step. Allies...

Wed, 18 May 2022 09:08:00 +0200
Maltese volunteers help deliver tons of food supplies from Moldova to Ukraine
Farmers working the land beside war trenches… missiles darting across the sky – these were among the scenes witnessed by two Maltese volunteers who were in Ukraine last week to help drop off six tons of food supplies to the war-t...

Wed, 18 May 2022 08:51:00 +0200
Medvedev says he’s no French Open favourite after comeback loss
World number two Daniil Medvedev on Tuesday ruled himself out as a title contender at next week’s French Open after losing his first match back after a hernia operation. The US Open champion, who underwent surgery last month, was b...

Wed, 18 May 2022 08:45:00 +0200
New CEO for St John's Co-Cathedral Foundation
Tonio Mallia has been appointed chief executive officer of the St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation, succeeding Cynthia de Giorgio who had been leading the foundation’s management since 2004. The foundation thanked Ms de Giorgio for...

Wed, 18 May 2022 08:23:00 +0200
Celebrating 75 years of St Michael School and its ties with St George Preca
St Michael School, run by the Society of Christian Doctrine (MUSEUM), celebrated its 75th anniversary last November. For this occasion, Preca Publications published a book researched by the author titled L-Iskola St Michael – L-Għ...

Wed, 18 May 2022 08:14:00 +0200
Conservatives tipped to lose in Australian nail-biter election
Australians punch drunk after three crisis-ridden years of fire, flood and plague will go to the polls on Saturday, in a tight race narrowly tipped to end a decade of conservative rule. Opinion polls have consistently shown centre-le...

Wed, 18 May 2022 07:54:00 +0200
Kyiv seeks evacuation of Azovstal fighters, first war crimes trial begins
Ukraine was seeking to evacuate the last soldiers holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol on Wednesday, its president said, as the first war crimes trial of a Russian soldier since the invasion began was set to get under way ...

Wed, 18 May 2022 07:53:00 +0200
PN wants Konrad Mizzi to continue facing PAC grilling 
Updated 8.02am with PN statement The Opposition will be calling for Konrad Mizzi to continue being grilled by MPs over the controversial power station deal.   Nationalist Party sources told Times of Malta that the PN’s parliamenta...

Wed, 18 May 2022 07:40:00 +0200
Architects on the warpath over interpretation of building rules
Architects may resort to industrial action after failing to reach an agreement with the authorities over the interpretation of building rules.    For the past few weeks, architects and civil engineers have been complaining that min...

Wed, 18 May 2022 07:40:00 +0200
‘Not likely but possible’ says Klopp on Liverpool’s title chances
Jurgen Klopp rated Liverpool’s chances of winning the Premier League as “not likely but possible” after the under-strength quadruple chasers took the title race to the final day of the season with a 2-1 win against Southampton ...

Wed, 18 May 2022 07:00:00 +0200
Trading up for Ukraine - Matt Gatt & Jan A Micallef
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has many layers. But it was a trade agreement that was one of the main triggers to the political unrest that preceded today’s war. In 2007, the EU and Ukraine started negotiating a so-called Associati...

Wed, 18 May 2022 06:52:00 +0200
More than 100,000 people officially missing in Mexico
More than 100,000 people are now listed as missing in violence-wracked Mexico, a grim milestone that the United Nations rights chief on Tuesday called "a tragedy of enormous proportions." Rights groups appealed for urgent action to t...

Wed, 18 May 2022 06:50:00 +0200
Anġlu Farrugia and Volodymyr Zelensky – Frank Psaila
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky found fault with the terminology used by Speaker Anġlu Farrugia to describe the situation in his homeland. “We don’t have a conflict, we have a war,” Zelensky told Farrugia after the latt...



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