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Top Al-Qaeda ranks are keeping footholds in Iran

Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

On a cold March morning last year, an Iranian diplomat was flown home nearly 15 months after being kidnapped by gunmen in an ambush on the Pakistani side of the Khyber Pass...

In Booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard

Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

In the dark before dawn, social workers advance slowly down a narrow road dividing two vast slums, entering a landscape of littered streets and broken-down shacks, where an open-air crack cocaine market does business among piles of rubble...

As Safe as having a suicide bomber in the sitting room

Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

This has nothing to do with Lawrence Gonzi’s recent act of political hara kiri which he committed during the vote on the second reading of the divorce Bill, which other unrelated columnists equally dismissed...

Adapt Or die

Monday, 18 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 16 years ago Malta Independent

In rapidly growing emerging markets, a combination of internal economic forces, supportive policies, and the shifting nature of the global economy drive high-speed and far-reaching change...

Green Bootleggers and baptists

Monday, 18 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

In May, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change made media waves with a new report on renewable energy. As in the past, the IPCC first issued a short summary; only later would it reveal all of the data...

High Jump

Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 15 years ago Malta Independent

All the talk right now is of Cyrus Engerer, the erstwhile rising star of the Nationalist Party who has pressed the self-sabotage button by joining Labour....

Make No mistake: Homophobia is alive and kicking

Sunday, 17 July 2011, 00:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

Cyrus Engerer’s decision to resign from the Nationalist Party and join the Labour Party has provoked the expected reactions ranging from jubilation (welcome home!) to downright...

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