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Snorkeller injured in suspected shark attack off English coast
A snorkeller off the coast of southern England has suffered a suspected shark bite, coastguards said on Tuesday, in what appears to be an extremely rare incident. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency...
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F1 star Hamilton takes ownership stake in NFL Broncos
Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has joined the ownership group of the NFL’s Denver Broncos, the team announced Tuesday. The Broncos entered into a sale agreement with the...
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San Giljan women team aiming for international level ahead of KO final
In a series of waterpolo Knock-out finals this week, San Giljan will be contenders for the trophy in both the men’s and women’s game. The club’s women’s team faces Sliema on Wednesday (18.00) and club...
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An inaccessible bus stop in Swieqi is brought back to life
A safety railing that blocked off access to a bus stop in Swieqi was removed on Tuesday evening, hours after photos of it prompted bemusement online. The steel barrier was installed as a temporary...
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Victorian fashionistas in Malta
Fashion, observed the essayist William Hazlitt, is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. That may have been true before the social revolutions of World War I, when...
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Flight frenzy: Pelosi Taiwan trip swamps plane tracker
Hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to a flight tracking website Tuesday anxious to find out whether US official Nancy Pelosi was in fact going to Taiwan, in defiance of China's angry protests....
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New Liga sponsors EA Sports to ‘revolutionise’ Spanish football
US video games giant Electronic Arts will replace Spanish bank Santander as the title sponsor of La Liga from summer 2023, the league announced on Tuesday. The sponsorship will be in the name of the...
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Australian Piastri to replace Alonso at Alpine in 2023
Australia’s Oscar Piastri will replace two-time Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso at Alpine next season, the team announced Tuesday. The 21-year-old Piastri was named Alpine’s reserve driver...
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Teuma scores on Champions League debut against Rangers
Malta international midfielder Teddy Teuma enjoyed a fairytale debut in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers when he put Union St Gilloise ahead in their third qualifying round first leg tie against...
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Letters to the editor - August 3, 2022
Breathing new life into the party The belief that the PN has the potential to become – once again – electable explains why Alex Perici Calascione decided to offer his services to form part of the...
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Editorial: The wind of corruption still blows
Even if some figures have actually dropped, the data contained in the latest Eurobarometer survey on corruption can only be bad news. Although down from the 74 per cent recorded at the end of 2019,...
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Announcements – August 3, 2022
Obituaries ELLUL. On August 2, at St Vincent de Paul residence, ANTOINETTE, née Vella, of Mosta, resided in Valletta, aged 82, passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church. She leaves...
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Former PN candidate Roselyn Borg Knight gets government appointment
Former Nationalist Party candidate Roselyn Borg Knight has been appointed to head the Employment Relations Board. The appointment was announced in the Government Gazette on Tuesday. In November...
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AUM drops fees for EU nationals after questions raised about discrimination
The American University of Malta (AUM) said it will waive fees for all EU students after questions were raised about whether its admissions criteria breached European Commission rules. Over the...
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China hits Taiwan with trade curbs, military drills, as Pelosi visits
China rolled out curbs Wednesday on the import of fruit and fish from Taiwan while halting shipments of sand to the island in the wake of a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trip by Pelosi,...
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La Isla Bonita – Wayne Flask
“Lidl welcomes you to Malta,” reads one of the many ad hoardings decorating the arrivals lounge at Malta International Airport. I’ve a visceral hatred for that particular sign. It’s another reminder...
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Today's front pages - August 3, 2022
The following are the top stories in Malta's newspapers on Wednesday. Times of Malta reports how developer Joseph Portelli controversially got Planning Authority approval for pools in a protected zone...
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Standards in public life – Mark Said
We have long had on paper the ethical standards which are due by MPs and, since 2018, a law that led to the setting up of the respective commissioner entrusted with investigating breaches of ethical...
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Criminal or magistrate's court? Judge wants law on choice of court widened
A judge has ruled that the attorney general needs to consider other factors, besides those laid down in current legal guidelines, when deciding whether to send accused persons for trial before the...
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Abdilla wants to see fight from Gżira players against Wolfsberger
Gżira United will be looking to continue their giant-killing run in the UEFA Conference League when they travel to Austrian side Wolfsberger in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Conference...
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