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Middle East: Turmoil blurring borders

Monday, 16 June 2014, 07:58 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

        Working in secret, European diplomats drew up the borders that have defined the Middle East's nations for nearly a century — but now civil war,...

Is a dog glass half empty or half full?

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 19:03 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

It can be quite hard for us to understand the thought process in a dog’s head because we use totally different languages and we have very different goals in life. Some people believe dogs look...

Donation of sunscreens to volunteers

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 19:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

La Roche-Posay Laboratories, through its sole representatives in Malta, Prohealth Ltd, were very proud to donate €12,000 worth of Anthelios XL 50+ sunscreens to be used by all participants and...

Marie Benoit's Diary

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 18:51 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The Accademia Italiana della Cucina at La Vela       After five weeks in Jersey City, visiting one of my darlings, I went up a size – 1X  – or perhaps it is...

Dad’s the word

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Alison Bezzina

Last week, as I was waiting (not so patiently) in my car, I noticed a man with spiky hair, a tattoo on his forearm and a nose piercing. He was walking slowly in the village square with a toddler in...

Officials and appointees need to learn that they are their position

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

So the big news yesterday (the big match doesn’t qualify because it started at midnight) was that the human rights organisation, aditus, wrote to the Prime Minister, copied to the civil rights...

Simon’s Freudian slip

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 11:00 Last update: about 13 years ago Noel Grima

Last Sunday, Simon Busuttil tweeted: “”Isn’t it time for Sunday sermons by party leaders to stop?”   Welcome though his announcement may have been to many, it was, I...

Taxation for the 21st century

Sunday, 15 June 2014, 09:03 Last update: about 13 years ago Alfred Mifsud

It is not often that a book dealing with economic and financial matters creates vibrant discussion in the wider society, as has been the case with Thomas Pikkety’s Capitalism in the 21st...

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