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Elections across Europe

Sunday, 25 May 2014, 19:03 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

The MEP elections in Malta are part of a much larger set of elections taking place across the EU.   Currently, European Parliament projections see the European People’s Party take hold...

Poland's Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski dies at 90

Sunday, 25 May 2014, 18:07 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Poland's last communist leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, has died at a military hospital where was being treated after a stroke, a hospital spokesman said. He was 90.   Jaruzelski...

Israeli, Palestinian leaders accept Vatican invite

Sunday, 25 May 2014, 15:46 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Pope Francis plunged Sunday into Mideast politics during his Holy Land pilgrimage, calling the current stalemate in peace efforts "unacceptable" and winning the acceptance from the Israeli...

Putin: West ignores Russia's interests in Ukraine

Sunday, 25 May 2014, 06:43 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he does not believe there will be a new Cold War with the United States, and Russia does not want it.   But he warned that Russia's interests...

3 killed, 1 injured at Brussels Jewish Museum

Saturday, 24 May 2014, 21:41 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Three people were killed and one seriously injured in a spree of gunfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday, officials said. Police detained one suspect who was at the scene and are looking...

Pope opens Mideast trip lamenting Syrian conflict

Saturday, 24 May 2014, 15:44 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Pope Francis thanked Jordan on Saturday for welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, calling for an "urgent," peaceful solution to the conflict in the...

Pope Francis arrives in Jordan for Mideast trip

Saturday, 24 May 2014, 12:41 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Pope Francis arrived Saturday in Jordan, kicking off a three-day trip to the Middle East that will see him get a firsthand look at the plight of Syrian refugees and witness the toll the civil war next...

California mum charged in killing of 3 daughters

Saturday, 24 May 2014, 06:24 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

A mother was charged Friday with three counts of murder in the stabbing of her three young daughters, whose bloody bodies were found arranged on a bed at her California home.   Carol...

Ukraine: 500 rebels attack government troops; 20 killed

Friday, 23 May 2014, 19:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Russia will recognize the outcome of Ukraine's presidential vote, President Vladimir Putin promised Friday, voicing hope that Ukraine's new leader would halt the military operation against...

Pope's Mideast trip will test diplomatic skills

Friday, 23 May 2014, 15:16 Last update: about 11 years ago Malta Independent

Pope Francis insists his weekend pilgrimage to the Middle East is a "strictly religious" commemoration of a key turning point in Catholic-Orthodox relations. But the delicate, three-day...

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