Новости за 07.11.2017

Republic of Ireland assistant boss Roy Keane has stressed that thoughts of returning to club management are "on the back burner" for him at the moment. The Football Association of Ireland last month announced that manager Martin O'Neill and Keane had agreed new contracts that will see them remain in their jobs for the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign. But O'Neill has said he expects Keane, the former Sunderland and Ipswich boss, to manage as a number one again "at some stage or other", and since then... Читать дальше...

Burnley midfielder Jack Cork has been called up to the England squad for the first time. The 28-year-old has been drafted in by manager Gareth Southgate for the upcoming friendlies against Germany and Brazil. Southgate has turned to the former Swansea and Southampton man after Raheem Sterling, Fabian Delph and Jordan Henderson became the latest withdrawals from his injury-hit squad. The Football Association said in a statement on Tuesday night: "The arrival of Cork means Gareth Southgate will continue his preparations at St. Читать дальше...

The government would like to introduce quotas in favour of women in this legislature so that having women in national decision-making posts would no longer be a rarity, the prime minister said this evening. Dr Muscat was speaking at an activity marking the 70th anniversary since women achieved the right to vote. The activity was held by the Labour Party at the national library in Valletta.  Dr Muscat observed that the government has an electoral mandate to introduce quotas to favour women in politics. Читать дальше...

A court order for the freezing of all the assets of well-known jeweller George Tabone, currently facing criminal action over alleged receipt of stolen valuables, will stand until proceedings reached their conclusion at appeal stage. The decision was taken after a constitutional application filed by Mr Tabone, as owner of Gram Holdings, Gram Jewellers and Gram Collections, who has been facing criminal proceedings since 2013. He was charged with having received valuables from a Valletta store haul in 2011... Читать дальше...

Two men were arrested this afternoon after allegedly shoplifting at the airport departures lounge. The police said the two Romanian men had reportedly stolen cosmetics and other items. They were found in possession of three luggage bags containing the stolen items, worth more than 5,000 euro.

A Serbian man was seriously injured this afternoon when a skip fell on him at Magħtab, the police said. The accident happened at 4.30pm as the man, 42, was lowering the skip from a truck so that it could be emptied.  His injuries were described as grievous.

An Ethiopian man, who runs a shop in Msida, has been handed a suspended sentence after a police search in his house yielded 42,560 contraband cigarettes  and 1.5kg of water pipe tobacco valued at €1,276.24.  Tesfaye Yirgu Zekarge, 46, was sentenced to a one-year jail term suspended for 18 months and a fine of €24,716, one-third of which is a civil debt payable to the Customs Department Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech also ordered the forfeiture of the contraband merchandise and any other goods... Читать дальше...

A Chinese masseuse, who travelled to Malta to be employed in a massage parlour, described in court today how she was forced into prostitution instead. The woman gave evidence in proceedings against a couple facing human trafficking charges. She testified via video conference in the case against Winston Joseph Gera, 45, and his Chinese partner Zhang Tianxia, 35, of St Julian’s, who last week were arraigned over human trafficking charges. The two were also charged with having forced two female employees into prostitution... Читать дальше...

It’s been a month of anniversaries. Amongst other, we marked five centuries of Lutheran Reformation, and the Great October Revolution happened a hundred years ago, on the 7th November (depending which calendar one follows). At face value, Luther and Lenin had a different story to tell. Yet history links them far more intimately. More so, both anniversaries have a lot to tell us about our current state of affairs, be it in Malta or beyond its Mediterranean shores. I am not expecting many to agree with me. Читать дальше...

Superstar pop icon Shakira will begin her sixth world tour next week, playing 36 venues all across America and Europe.  But as the Colombian star jets between countries to entertain her millions of fans, her music rights sit tight with a Maltese company registered at Kalkara's SmartCity.    Evidence that the pop icon transferred her music rights to a Maltese-registered company in 2009 emerges from the Paradise Papers leak.  Tournesol Limited received the rights to the Colombian singer's musical assets... Читать дальше...

Millions in public funds invested by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development were lost in a Russian mining venture linked to financial services watchdog chairman Joe Bannister, leaked documents show. Prof. Bannister is linked to the venture through a British Virgin Islands-based company, which was a shareholder in Imperial Mining Holdings Limited (IMHL). He insists he was a non-executive director of the BVI company ACP Special Situations No. 2 Limited, although a leaked e-mail in the Paradise Papers refer to him as “management”. Читать дальше...

Opposition leader Adrian Delia insisted in parliament this evening that the Opposition would not allow a return to business as usual until action was taken in the wake of the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Speaking in the House, Dr Delia said the opposition had declared two weeks ago that the budget was irrelevant, and the government later agreed. The opposition requested an urgent debate, the government resisted, then agreed and the debate was held on Monday week. During the debate the opposition... Читать дальше...

Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia said today that he had full confidence in Deputy Police Commissioner Silvio Valletta, husband of Gozo Minister Justyne Caruana, who is leading investigations into the car bomb murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The minister was questioned in parliament by Nationalist MP Simon Busuttil, who asked the minister whether he considered it inappropriate that a minister's husband was leading the investigation into the murder of a harsh critic of the government. He said... Читать дальше...

Opec is seeking to achieve consensus agreement before a meeting on November 30 on how long to extend a global pact to curb oil production, Opec's secretary general said today, with no country unwilling to prolong the accord. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, plus Russia and nine other producers, are cutting oil output by about 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) until March 2018 in an effort to eradicate a supply glut that has weighed on prices. The comments indicate an increasing... Читать дальше...

Following four consecutive sessions of declines, the MSE Equity Price Index moved 0.9% higher today to 4,583.863 points largely due to the rebound in Bank of Valletta plc shares as the equity continues to dominate trading. RS2 Software plc also trended in positive territory whilst a further three equities, including HSBC Bank Malta plc, eased lower. The other five active equities held on to their respective closing prices. Bank of Valletta plc experienced a volatile session as the equity initially... Читать дальше...

A police mix-up which saw a man wrongly arraigned for alleged involvement in a Birkirkara hold-up was compounded by a second mix-up, when the government asked the wrong Police Board to investigate one of the police inspectors involved. The case goes back to August 4, 2013 when a hold-up took place at a convenience shop in Birkirkara. One of the investigating officers was Inspector Elton Taliana. On August 7, the inspector was informed by a superintendent that the CID had arraigned a man – Darryl Luke Borg – in connection with the case. Читать дальше...

Transport Malta’s contractor will start laying a layer of asphalt on Cannon Road in Sta Venera, as from 8pm tonight. The works will continue until 5am when the road will be opened for traffic, for works to resume again for the following two nights. Parts of the road will be closed between 8pm and 5am each night. No vehicles, including public transport, will have access from the side of the Bank of Valletta headquarters, while the works are ongoing. Other parts of the road will be closed according to work exigencies. Читать дальше...

Autopsies are being carried out to determine the cause of death of 26 teenage African girls, whose corpses were picked up in the Mediterranean. CNN reported that the girls, aged between 14 and 18, were from Niger and Nigeria and were probably trying to get to the European mainland from Libya. A Spanish warship, which had over 370 other rescued migrants on board from four separate operations, took the corpses to Salerno. Lorena Ciccotti, police chief in Salerno, said that the corpses were found near a partially submersed rubber dinghy. Читать дальше...

The Attorney General has called for the seven high profile individuals involved in Panama Papers appeals to be joined in the constitutional suit filed by Simon Busuttil. Dr Busuttil filed the suit after Mr Justice Antonio Mizzi had ruled to reject a challenge presented by the former Nationalist Party leader and continue to hear the appeals. This latest twist in the proceedings came to light this morning during the suit's first sitting before Mr Justice Joseph Zammit McKeon. Lawyer Victoria Buttigieg... Читать дальше...

France today asked its European partners to agree on curbing international funding of states that provide tax shelters, following the huge leak of documents showing the tax affairs of the rich and famous. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, ahead of a meeting of European Union peers, called for a "credible" blacklist to be drawn up of tax havens and for sanctions for those who do not cooperate. Talks on a blacklist, initially planned for December, were brought forward by the EU ministers after media reports citing the "Paradise Papers"... Читать дальше...

The European Central Bank sought today to defuse a conflict with European and Italian authorities over its plans for ridding eurozone banks of bad loans, opening the door to working with other institutions and tailoring its approach to each bank. The ECB has come under fire for setting blanket rules for how much money banks should set aside for new unpaid loans. It is due to draft guidelines by March for existing soured credit, a much bigger issue at nearly €900 billion. Critics, including Italian... Читать дальше...

A Louisiana homeowner is accused of arming himself and chasing down high school students who were toilet-papering homes. Mandeville police chief Gerald Sticker told news outlets that Craig Scott was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and obstruction of a road. Authorities said Scott looked for the teenagers, who were rolling the homes of fellow students in the early hours of October 27. When he found them, he is accused of blocking the street to prevent them from getting... Читать дальше...

Celtics 110 Hawks 107 Kyrie Irving scored 13 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter, and the Boston Celtics won their ninth in a row after two opening losses, defeating the Atlanta Hawks 110-107 on Monday night. Irving made four 3-pointers and shot 14 of 22 overall while adding seven assists. Boston rookie Jason Tatum scored 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds, and former Atlanta forward Al Horford had 15 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists. Dennis Schroder scored 23 points for the Hawks. Dewayne... Читать дальше...

Four artists will be competing in the finals of a graffiti contest taking place at the Embassy Complex, Valletta, on Saturday from 9.30am onwards. Maltese artists were invited to show their graffiti skills in the competition, with the opportunity of winning €1,000 from iCentre. The winning work will also be displayed at the Embassy Complex as part of its celebrations marking Valletta as the European Capital of Culture 2018 and will form part of a marketing campaign in 2018. Submissions were evaluated... Читать дальше...

Maltese badminton players continued to bring more positive results on the international scene with Fiorella Marie Sadowski and Nigel De Gaetano registering wins in the Bulgarian International tournament while Sam Cassar also left his mark in the Slovakia U-17 tournament. Sadowski and De Gaetano, under the guidance of Elite Squad coach Martin Farrugia, managed to qualify to the main round of the Babolat Bulgarian International after beating home players Vasil Tsonev and Irena Atanasova 21-15, 21-19. Читать дальше...