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European waterpolo champions Pro Recco will be heading to Malta at the end of this month for a pre-season training camp, it was announced yesterday. The Italian champions are set to arrive in Malta on Tuesday, September 21 for a five-day training camp at the Neptunes WPSC pool in St Julian’s where they will step up their pre-season preparations ahead of the new season. Pro Recco’s visit to Malta materialised due to the contacts of national team coach Karl Izzo who enjoys an excellent relationship... Читать дальше...

Fear of travelling abroad appears to be easing but most people say they are still unlikely to take a holiday in the coming months, a survey commissioned by Times of Malta shows.  The second round of the survey was carried out in August, as the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases stabilised following a spike when the first survey was carried out in July.    The August survey found that 54 per cent of respondents are generally concerned about travelling. This is split between 44 per cent who say they are “not at all comfortable”... Читать дальше...

Sign language services were particualrly popular during 2020 as the country was glued to regular COVID-19 updates, the state disability support agency  said on Monday.  According to Aġenzija Sapport’s annual report for 2020, the agency’s assessment and intervention services, which replaced the social work team, was the most sought after service offered.  Some 1,126 people used this service in the year under review. The service is no longer limited to social workers but now also incorporates occupational therapists... Читать дальше...

It is time for school ciriculum to return to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic is being brought under control, a parents’ association said on Monday.  The Maltese Association of Parents of State School Students (MAPSSS) said that while it understands the need to maintain health measures like mask-wearing and social distancing, students should return to the full educational curriculum.  Students, they said, were being limited to core subjects and it is time for the resumption of peripatetic lessons like art... Читать дальше...

With his devil-may-care charm, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who has died aged 88, was the poster boy of the New Wave, France’s James Dean and Humphrey Bogart rolled into one irresistible man. With his boxer’s physique and broken nose, his restless insouciance chimed with the mould-breaking French cinema of the 1960s. Director Jean-Luc Godard, the New Wave’s brilliant enfant terrible, cast Belmondo in his break-out role as a doomed thug who falls in love with the Jean Seberg’s pixie-like American in Paris in Breathless (1961). Читать дальше...

The MSE Equity Price Index fell for the first time in five sessions as it declined by 0.38% to 3,912.229 points.  The losses in BOV, GO and HSBC outweighed the gains in MPC while Mapfre traded flat.  Meanwhile, overall trading activity was exceptionally on Monday with just under €14,000 changing hands. Today’s worst performing equity was HSBC Bank Malta plc which dropped by 3.7% to a 9-month low of €0.78 level across a single deal of 3,000 shares. In the same sector, Bank of Valletta plc shed... Читать дальше...

FIFA said Monday it regretted the chaotic scenes that preceded the suspension of the World Cup qualifier between Brazil and Argentina and a decision on possible disciplinary action would be taken “in due course”. The match at Sao Paulo’s Neo Quimica Arena on Sunday was halted when Brazilian health officials ran onto the pitch seven minutes after kick-off, triggering a melee involving team officials and players from both sides. The officials intervened just hours after health authorities in Brazil... Читать дальше...

Elite Malta Basketball hosted a four-team international tournament over the weekend at the Ta’ Qali pavilion, with USA Select Basketball Red taking the honours after beating local sides Starlites BC and Depiro BC. USA Select Basketball, an organization composed of athletes that have completed their college or NCAA eligibility and are looking for professional contracts internationally, brought to Malta two teams – Red and Blue – to compete.   Continue reading this article on SportsDesk, the sports... Читать дальше...

Gambling enthusiasts in Finland have more reasons to rejoice as compared to more conservative parts of the world. Finland is known to have one of the most liberal approaches to gambling regulation. To a certain extent, traditional land-based casinos are still regulated by appointed governing bodies. However, it still primarily allows casino operators to thrive within the industry and propagate a more kinetic local economy. When it comes to online casino operators, it gets a lot easier as there... Читать дальше...

Ex-Franciscan friar Fr Adrijanu Cachia was dismissed from the order and banned from exercising the priestly ministry in public over insubordination in 2016. Two weeks after he sparked controversy when he walked onto an altar in Għargħur, he tells Mark Laurence Zammit why he believes he did nothing wrong. Fr Adrijanu Cachia insists the punishment imposed on him by the Franciscan Order and the Church is unfair and insists he will wear his robe again in public. The former friar is banned from exercising Mass in public... Читать дальше...

Jaguar Classic is bringing a strictly limited run of new C-type Continuations to life in celebration of the iconic model’s motorsport heritage, 70 years after it first raced to victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours. The landmark vehicle made its public debut at the prestigious Concours of Elegance at Hampton Court Palace last week. The C-type Continuation will be hand built at Jaguar Classic Works in Coventry, to the specification of the 1953 ‘works’ C-types that dominated that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours... Читать дальше...

Amendments to education rules, set to be introduced next month, are “not sufficiently child-centred”, the Commissioner for Children has warned.   In a statement on Monday, the Office of the Commissioner for Children, Pauline Miceli, said it is concerned that the proposed revision of the Education Act is not based on children’s rights and therefore is not sufficiently child-centred. “The best interests of the child should be paramount throughout the whole act,” the statement reads.  Changes to Malta’s education laws... Читать дальше...

Nobel economics prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz praised international backing for a global tax on corporations but said the minimum rate agreed by governments to battle “the dark side of globalisation” remains too low. More than 130 nations have supported a plan to introduce a tax floor of at least 15 per cent aimed at preventing countries from competing to offer the lowest rates in order to attract multinationals seeking to minimise their tax bills. “It’s a fantastic initiative,” Stiglitz told AFP on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti Forum... Читать дальше...

Malta’s first-ever pickleball team had a near-perfect start to their international commitments as they won silver in the ladies’ doubles, and bronze in the men’s doubles over the weekend at the Spanish Open. Steffi Pace, who spearheaded the group and was part of the ladies duo had told the Times of Malta ahead of the tournament that the side’s expectations were not set high, however, such a result will definitely be a shot in the arm for future competitions.   Continue reading this article on SportsDesk... Читать дальше...

Malta is now officially recognising Egypt's digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate and Lebanon's vaccination record card. In a statement on Monday, the health and tourism authorities said the recognised vaccines remain those approved by the European Medicines Authority. COVID vaccination courses are only recognised 14 days after the administration of the Pfizer, Astra Zeneca or Moderna's second dose, or a fortnight after a J&J jab. Malta currently recognises the digital vaccine certificates of the EU... Читать дальше...

Rights activists said on Monday they had filed a criminal complaint in Germany against five retailers including C&A, Lidl and Hugo Boss, accusing them of benefiting from forced labour among China’s Uyghur population. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) said it had filed the case, which also targeted the two supermarket chains Aldi Nord and Aldi Sued, after carrying out an open source investigation. The ECCHR’s Miriam Saage-Maass said it was difficult for civil society... Читать дальше...

Only 136 people slept at the Fondazzjoni Dar il-Hena's three emergency shelters throughout 2020, as COVID-19 restrictions forced the centres to host a reduced number of people.  The figure is even lower than that registered in 2017, when the foundation's first emergency shelter, Dar Papa Franġisku, opened its doors. That year, 241 people had sought shelter, with the number increasing to 391 in 2018. The following year 358 people slept at one of the emergency shelters.  Over the past four years... Читать дальше...

British actress and singer Jane Birkin has cancelled her appearance at the American Film Festival in Deauville, France, as she recovers from a stroke, her family said Monday. The 74-year-old former partner and muse of French crooner Serge Gainsbourg "suffered a minor form of stroke a few days ago", the family said in a statement to AFP. "She is doing well," the statement added. Birkin was to discuss Jane, a documentary about her by her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg that was presented in Cannes in July... Читать дальше...

Gilbert Agius has warned his Malta U-21 players that they should put firmly behind them their 4-1 win over Northern Ireland and brace themselves for a much tougher test a Malta U-21 take on Russia in their second UEFA Championship qualifier in Khimki on Tuesday. The Malta U-21 youngsters head into the match against the Russians in high spirits following their impressive 4-1 win over Northern Ireland on Friday with Mattia Veselji netting a brace with the other goals coming from Jake Engerer and Ayrton Attard. Читать дальше...

Updated with Labour Party statement at 4.10pm Some 24 companies have renounced their licences to operate in Malta since the country was greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force, compounding uncertainty in the financial services industry, the Nationalist Party said on Monday.  During a press conference outside the MFSA in Mrieħel, chief PN spokesperson Peter Agius, MP Kristy Debono and candidate Jerome Caruana Cilia, called on the government to be responsible and communicate its plans which... Читать дальше...

A 77-year-old man died overnight while positive for COVID-19. The death was announced by the health authorities on Monday, whose data on Facebook shows that 37 people tested positive for COVID over the past 24 hours, while a further 49 recovered. This means that there are currently 710 active coronavirus cases in Malta. Of these, 29 are at Mater Dei Hospital, two of whom are receiving intensive care. Vaccination  The same data shows that 413,844 people aged over 12 are fully vaccinated against the virus. Читать дальше...

European banks have not reduced their presence in tax havens, despite several scandals that have revealed the dubious practices multinationals use to avoid taxes, according to a study published on Monday.  Europe’s leading banks each year book €20 billion, or 14 per cent of their total profits, in 17 territories with particularly favourable tax regimes, said a report by the EU Tax Observatory, which is housed at the Paris School of Economics. That percentage has remained stable since 2014 when a wave of revelations... Читать дальше...

Saadi Gaddafi, a son of Libya's late dictator Moamer Gaddafi who was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising, has been freed from jail, according to the interim government. Saadi - the strongman's third son, now aged 47 - was known for his playboy lifestyle and briefly played as a professional footballer in Italy. "Saadi Moamer Gaddafi has been freed from prison," following a court ruling several years ago, a justice ministry source said late Sunday - without saying whether he was still in the country. Читать дальше...

Thirteen athletes from Rush AC and La Salle AC are currently in the Czech Republic where they are competing in the European Kids Athletics Meeting in Brno. The three-day championships is a huge meeting for young track and field athletes and have attracted the participation of over 1,300 athletes from all over Europe, including Germany, Poland, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Latvia. The Malta contingent is formed by 13 athletes, seven of whom are on the books of Rush AC, and the other six represent La Salle AC. Читать дальше...

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