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...
Is Palliative sedation equivalent to euthanasia?
Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 00:00
Last update: about 14 years ago
Malta Independent
This is the question we grappled with in the meeting of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists...
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...