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Same company wins half solar lab budget
More than half the budget allocated in tenders to equipment for a new university solar laboratory has gone to one company, which is the subsidiary of a group whose chairman is the lab’s lead...
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Small plane's nose gear collapses at Malta International Airport
A light aircraft was involved in a minor accident at Malta International Airport this afternoon. Airport officials said no injuries were reported and the only person on board the aircraft, a Tecnam...
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700 foreigners with removal orders failed to be deported
Nearly 900 foreigners in Malta were issued with removal orders over the past two years but only some 200 were actually deported, according to figures obtained by the Times of Malta. In 2014 and 2015,...
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Government says it had no plans to buy Palazzo Verdelin as Opposition calls...
The government said today it never had plans to acquire or expropriate Palazzo Verdelin. Its statement followed a news conference earlier today in which Shadow Minister Jason Azzopardi said the...
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Burqas: expression or just oppression?
The law needs to be amended to address the anomaly of women wearing burqas in public, according to shadow justice minister Jason Azzopardi. In a personal comment on Facebook yesterday, Dr Azzopardi...
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‘Islamic militants pushed me out of my own country’
Nigerian migrant SA’EED ABUBAKAR met Darrin Zammit Lupi on a search and rescue ship on the open seas last week. This is his story. An eruption of gunfire one evening in a small village in Borno State,...
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Virtù Ferries blame owner for dog’s death
Virtù Ferries insisted yesterday that the dog that died from heat stress on board the catamaran to Sicily had died due to negligence by the owners, who did not inform the crew about their pet....
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Severe storm in Sicily led to last week's power cuts - Enemalta, Terna
Last week’s widespread power cuts were initiated when lightning struck parts of the Sicilian network infrastructure of the interconnector, according to an initial analysis by Enemalta and Terna Rete...
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Updated: 30 chickens, two dogs, killed in Naxxar fire
Updated Wednesday am At least 30 chickens and two dogs were killed in a hay fire at a Naxxar farmhouse yesterday evening. CPD officers battled the fire for four hours. The police said the 57-year-old...
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Teenager charged with assaulting his mum
A teenager with anger management problems was remanded in custody today after pleading not guilty to assaulting and threatening his mum and siblings. The boy, who turned 18 last month, denied...
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Toni Abela has been consultant to the Transport Ministry
Labour Party deputy leader Toni Abela has acted as a legal consultant to the Transport Ministry for two years running, the Times of Malta has learnt. The contract, worth €26,000 a year, was initially...
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Woman held for two days after insulting bus driver
A woman who called a bus driver an a****** for not letting her onto his bus without first closing a pushchair in which her two-year-old was sleeping, spent 47 hours under arrest following an...
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Businessman accuses BOV of fraudulent transfer of money
A South African businessman who invested in a fund managed by Bank of Valletta has accused the bank of "fraudulently" transferring money to an Indonesian bank account. In a judicial protest, he asked...
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Stock traders in Malta in international securities fraud scheme
Stock traders in Malta, New York, Cyprus, France and Russia and computer hackers in Ukraine made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years by conspiring to use information stolen from...
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Woman found dead in Gozo was strangled - police
The 72-year-old Danish woman found dead in Marsalforn Valley last month was strangled, the police said today. The woman had been found completely naked and face down in a pool of water by a man...
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Man critically injured in 'sword fight'
A re-enactment yesterday became all too real when an 18-year-old man from Tarxien was critically injured when he was struck with a sword at Fort Rinella. The incident took place when the victim was...
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76-year-old shoplifter jailed
A 76-year-old Romanian woman who has no money to sustain herself and who prefers spending the little money she has on cigarettes rather than on food, has been jailed for a month after admitting to...
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Arrest of man who called police for assistance 'illegal'
A magistrate this afternoon ordered the immediate release of a man charged with resisting the police and interfering in their investigations. Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera ruled that the arrest...
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Ministers defend €360 million state guarantee for power station; Opposition...
(Adds PN's press conference) An €88 million bank guarantee from BOV to the consortium building the new gas power station had only been an interim measure until an agreement over the €360 million state...
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Four-year-old girl appeals for return of soft toy
A four-year-old Hungarian girl who lost her beloved sleeping buddy yesterday is appealing to readers to return her toy should it be found. Her father George Domjan, who has been living in Malta for...
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