Times Of Malta
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:46:00 +0200Families of overdose victims demand action from social media platforms
Families of teens who died after overdosing on drugs they bought through Snapchat and other social media platforms called Monday for tech firms to do more to address the problem.
Sam Chapman, part of a group that staged a protest Mon...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:44:00 +0200Warriors on brink of NBA title as Wiggins punishes Celtics
Andrew Wiggins scored 26 points as the Golden State Warriors battled past the Boston Celtics 104-94 to move within one win of a seventh NBA championship crown on Monday.
With Stephen Curry having a rare off-night after his 43-point g...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:34:00 +0200Revisiting trauma with a child-refugee-turned artist
Petrit Halilaj knows something about how art can help pull children out of the horror of war – but also the dangers of them being used as a propaganda tool.
As a 13-year-old refugee from the conflict in Kosovo in 1999, his felt-ti...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:20:00 +0200Australia braces for power blackouts, despite being a top energy producer
Australians have been warned to expect blackouts across the densely populated east coast on Tuesday, as an energy crisis grips one of the world's biggest coal and gas producers.
The Australian Energy Market Operator warned there cou...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:18:00 +0200Rescue operation for Indian boy trapped in well for four days
Indian emergency workers were scrambling Tuesday to rescue a 10-year-old boy with hearing and speech impairments who has been trapped down a narrow well for four days.
Rahul Sahu fell down the 24-metre waterhole on Friday while playi...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0200Gary Giordimaina takes silver medal in Sassari tournament
The Malta Wrestling Federation last weekend took part in the 27th edition of the UVW International Tournament Citta di Sassari in Sardinia.
Apart from Malta, the competition attracted wrestlers from Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Swi...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:51:00 +0200Government wants Malta to be 'hub of tourism excellency' - Clayton Bartolo
The government wants Malta to become "a hub of tourism excellence", Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo said on Tuesday, calling on all sectors to always focus on quality.
Speaking at the Mediterranean Tourism Forum, Bartolo said that w...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:00:00 +0200Malta coach Mangia proud with Malta record as League C hopes still alive
For the second consecutive time, Malta will head into the final game of its UEFA Nations League campaign with promotion to League C on the line.
After the dramatic defeat at the hands of Estonia, Malta were desperate to bounce back ...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:30:00 +0200Volt: IVF changes are good, but not ambitious enough
Proposed amendments to Malta's IVF laws are positive but do not go far enough, according to Volt Malta.
The progressive political party believes the law should also be amended to allow for "altruistic surrogacy" - surrogacy that does...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:05:00 +0200Citizen action is the light in Malta's maldevelopment tunnel - Colm Regan
For the past number of months (and years), we here in Xagħra have been under attack.
The weapons of choice have been cranes, cement trucks, grinders, drills, skips and a cacophony of noise. Dust fills the air and there is no time ...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:45:00 +0200Police: inquiry cleared us of blame in death of tasered and tranquillised man
The police say that a magisterial inquiry found they were not criminally responsible for the death of a mentally ill man after he was tasered and then tranquillised.
Ronnie Ghiller died of a sudden heart seizure on May 8, 2020, short...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:41:00 +0200Malta's parental leave pay ranked ninth-worst in survey of 43 countries
Paid parental leave in Malta has been ranked as the ninth-worst globally in a new index published by job-seeking website Lensa.
The data was extracted from a parental leave database kept by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation a...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:27:00 +0200Trump became 'detached from reality,' says his former attorney general
Donald Trump deluged aides with wild voter fraud conspiracy theories after losing the 2020 US election, his top law-enforcement official said in testimony revealed Monday by a congressional probe which the ex-president branded a "moc...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:14:00 +0200Editorial: There's a smell of dead cat surrounding opera house promises
There is a political tactic used by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. It is attributed to his Australian adviser, Lynton Crosby. The theory is simple. Whenever the news is bad, very bad for a political leader, they simply drop a decom...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:11:00 +0200Maltese weightlifter wins three gold medals at World Youth Championships
Tenishia Thornton continued to rewrite history in Maltese weightlifting when the young sensation bagged an astonishing three gold medals at the World Youth Championships held in Mexico on Monday night.
Competing in the women’s 55k...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:03:00 +0200ECB gears up for interest rate hikes
On June 9, on the basis of its updated assessment, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided to take further steps in normalising its monetary policy.
Throughout this process, the Governing Council will maintai...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:53:00 +0200The appeal to shun milk: animal welfare or rights? - Malcolm Borg
Malta’s animal welfare commissioner recently urged consumers not to drink milk. But is her stand based on science?
Expertise might be measured by various yardsticks but it is crucial to acknowledge that a subject matter warrants ex...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:51:00 +0200Dancing goalkeeper Redmayne sees Australia to World Cup win in shootout
Australia on Tuesday celebrated the antics of dancing goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne whose penalty shootout save against Peru saw them to a fifth straight World Cup finals.
The 33-year-old clowned his way along the goal line as Peru’s ...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:50:00 +0200Today's front pages - June 14, 2022
The following are the main stories in Tuesday’s newspapers.
Times of Malta says offers of hard cash, expensive whiskies and free meals have all been recorded in an internal gift register introduced by Police Commissioner Angelo Gaf...
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:50:00 +0200Zelensky pleads for arms as Russian forces lay siege to Severodonetsk
Ukraine's president has made an impassioned plea to Western allies to speed arms deliveries and help stem "terrifying" casualties as Russian forces lay siege to the eastern city of Severodonetsk, destroying the last bridges into the ...