Новости за 12.09.2021

BALZAN                   1 Mijic 39 BIRKIRKARA            2 Falcone 2; Macedo 45 BALZAN V. Vranes-6,  A. Loof-6, S. Arab-5.5 (84 N. Frendo), M. Duric-7, P. Fenech-6, A. Alves-6, M. Johnson-6.5, U. Ljubomirac-6.5, M. Mijic-7 (79 G. Camilleri), A. Andrejic-6 (70 B. Kaljevic-5), S. Cipriott-6 (79 M. Grima). BIRKIRKARA D. Fernandes-6, E. Ruiz-6, Y. Yankam-5.5, L. Montebello-6, P. Mbong-6 (63 L. Aguirre), K. Zammit-6, F. Falcone-6.5, C. Attard-6.5, O. Carniello-6, J. Macedo-7 (82 K. Bevis), D. Venancio (25 R. Читать дальше...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic marked his return to action after four months out with a goal as AC Milan moved top of Serie with a 2-0 win over Lazio after champions Inter Milan drew 2-2 at Sampdoria. Stefano Pioli’s side are level on a perfect nine points with second-placed Napoli, who beat Juventus on Saturday, thanks to Rafael Leao’s neat strike just before the break and a tap-in from forward Ibrahimovic seven minutes after making his comeback as a second-half substitute. The Swedish star, who turns 40 in three weeks time... Читать дальше...

Football BOV Premier League SIRENS               1            Gavrila 82 HIBERNIANS    3            Degabriele 14; Grech 18 pen Domoraud 85 SIRENS J. Debono-5.5, J. Blanco-5.5, I. Borg-5 (46 D. Jackson-6), R. Tachikawa-5.5 (66 B. Gavrila-6), V. Vieira-6, A. Borg-6, J. Walker-5.5, F. Brandan-6.5, C. Zammit Lonardelli-6 (79 A. Effong), C. Riascos-5.5, K. Reid-6. HIBERNIANS I. Kone-6, F. Apap-6.5 (90 M. Ellul), L. Almeida-6 (88 Z. Grech), Raphael-6, J. Grech-6 (90 F. Mensah), J. Degabriele-6.5 (78 A. Читать дальше...

Red Bull’s championship leader Max Verstappen was handed a three-place grid penalty for his role in the frightening crash with Lewis Hamilton in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix, the stewards at Monza announced. The Dutch driver was “predominantly to blame” for the incident that wiped him and his Mercedes rival out of the race won by McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo, a statement read. The penalty will be applied at the Russian Grand Prix in a fortnight’s time. Verstappen, who leads seven-time world champion Hamilton by five points... Читать дальше...

When Nazzareno and Antonia Pulis were evicted from a Żabbar field they had tilled for 30 years, they also ran out of funds and willpower to continue fighting. They were already looking into selling their farming machinery, until the Għaqda Bdiewa Attivi – which says some three farmers are threatened with removal every week – stepped in to appeal the eviction. The five-tumoli field was at the heart of the Pulis couple’s farming, also housing a reservoir and a borehole, which remain the source of... Читать дальше...

A motorcyclist was seriously injured on Sunday when he fell off his motorcycle on the Xemxija Bypass, the police said. The accident happened at noon as the 29-year-old man was driving a Yamaha YZF R1.  The police are investigating. 

Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia got the measure of six-time world champion Marc Marquez in a gripping duel to win the Aragon MotoGP from pole on Sunday. Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo retained the world championship lead despite finishing down the field in eighth. This was Bagnaia’s debut success in the premier category after 10 wins combined in Moto2 and Moto3. After nailing pole position with a track record time on Saturday Bagnaia led from the start tracked by Marquez, who was hunting his 58th MotoGP win. Читать дальше...

A 42-year-old woman was sentenced to a one-year jail term suspended for two years on Sunday after admitting her role in a domestic row with her husband on Saturday at their St Paul's Bay home. She was charged with causing grievous bodily harm and making threats. The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday and the woman threw a mug at the man, the court was told. She later reported the matter to the police. She entered the courtroom on Sunday with a noticeable limp.  In being handed the suspended sentence... Читать дальше...

A Sudanese migrant who lives at Hal Far migrants centre was jailed for three months on Sunday after admitting to having attempted to fly out of Malta using somebody else's passport. He was arrested at the airport on Saturday as he attempted to board a flight for Catania. The court heard that the migrants was prepared to testify against other people. Inspector Karl Roberts prosecuted. Lawyer Charmaine Cherrett was legal counsel.  

Looking on the sea from afar, we imagine a scene of quiet serenity, but the opening shot of the film Luzzu reminds us that the sea is a cacophonous, roaring place. On our island besieged by the Mediterranean, to venture out to sea is to wade into the wilderness.  Luzzu, writer-director Alex Camilleri’s debut film, is a story about a fisherman’s struggle against all manner of forces threatening his trade, from family and financial exasperation to cut-throat commercial encroachment. We meet Jesmark... Читать дальше...

Family bonds transcend time and space. The Bonds exhibition celebrating the link between two sisters from Bulgaria, Lilyana Ger and Nadya Peovska, clearly illustrates this. Joseph Agius talks to the exhibition’s curator Roderick Camilleri about their quest to reconnect. JA. This is an exhibition about sisterly love and family bonds through blood and shared biographies. How did your role as curator of such an intensely personal exhibition enhance the narrative? RC. Part of my role as a curator was to elicit and trigger ideas and thoughts. Читать дальше...

Pope Francis met on Sunday with anti-migration Hungarian premier Viktor Orban before calling on pilgrims to be "open" and "considerate" at a big open-air mass in Budapest. The head of 1.3 billion Catholics -- in Hungary to close the International Eucharistic Congress -- met Orban, accompanied by his deputy and the president, behind closed doors in Budapest's grand Fine Arts Museum. On the one hand, the Hungarian prime minister is a self-styled defender of "Christian Europe" from migration. On the other... Читать дальше...

Novak Djokovic will attempt to win the first calendar-year men’s singles Grand Slam since 1969 in Sunday’s US Open final and make his case to be considered the greatest player in tennis history. The 34-year-old Serbian world number one faces Russia’s second-ranked Daniil Medvedev at Arthur Ashe Stadium in the biggest match of a career that has brought him 20 Slam trophies. “I’m going to treat this match as it’s my last one because it’s arguably the most important one of my career,” Djokovic said. Читать дальше...

With just a few weeks until the release of the 25th Bond movie, Aston Martin launched its No Time To Die campaign with an exclusive screening of its No Time To Die TV spot, against the backdrop of London’s Battersea Power Station. No Time To Die, to be released globally from this month, features four iconic Aston Martin models from past, present and future. James Bond’s highly-anticipated return to cinema marks the first time four different models have appeared in a 007 film: the DB5, the classic Aston Martin V8... Читать дальше...

The UK government has dropped a plan to make people in England show vaccine passports to enter crowded events such as nightclubs, the health minister said Sunday. The government had previously said these would be introduced at the end of this month, despite opposition from businesses in the sector and from some Conservative MPs. Health minister Sajid Javid announced the U-turn, saying the government does not view the move as necessary in the current virus situation, citing high vaccine uptake. Читать дальше...

Some passengers arriving from 'dark-red zone' are being forced to share rooms with others for the 14-day quarantine period, while paying €1,400 for the pleasure, a resident has claimed. The Indian resident, says his wife was told this is happening due to limited hotel bed space. He has written to prime minister Robert Abela to draw attention to the way passengers arriving from countries deemed as high-risk COVID-19 countries are facing chaos and “looting”. He said passengers arriving from so-called... Читать дальше...

The new theatre production Zoom explores how COVID-19 dynamics have infiltrated each of our lives and organised our interactions with each other. Much has been written and discussed about the sad situation of the theatrical sector locally. The theatre community has expressed its frustration at the fact that the sector was not given the same level playing field. And as the pandemic developed, and the number of active cases decreased and increased in a most fluid manner, making planning challenging... Читать дальше...

A man and a woman who had been diagnosed with COVID-19 died on Sunday as 50 new cases of the virus were detected. The health authorities said the latest victims were an 83-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman. The number of deaths has risen to 449. 33 COVID-19 patients are currently being treated in hospital, including four in the Intensive Therapy Unit. There are currently 731 active cases. 805,439 vaccine doses have been administered to date, including 2,240 booster doses.

The European green deal is being extended to the finance world. The European Union is examining how to make sustainability considerations an integral part of its financial policy. The aim is to incentivise private investment in the transition to a climate-neutral economy. Holistically, the EU is tackling this from different angles. It has created a taxonomy for sustainable activities which basically creates an EU-wide classification system for these activities. It is also creating an EU-wide green... Читать дальше...

Co-director of the award-winning play The Nobodies, Vikesh Godhwani, speaks to Lara Zammit about the play and the social realities it depicts. LZ. The Nobodies is a play about social division and discontent, portraying universal conditions of struggle in the lived experiences of those on the lower echelons of the social hierarchy. A socio-political drama about three young people fighting to save their local NHS hospital from privatisation, the theme of publicly owned goods being redistributed... Читать дальше...

Infrastructural development was good and necessary for society to grow, but it should not be at the expense of the public good and quality of life, Opposition leader Bernard Grech said on Sunday.  The right for people to live serenely in their homes and enjoy public spaces must also be safeguarded, Grech said during a radio interview on the PN’s NET FM station.  “A country cannot move forward without development, we have to be honest about this fact,” Grech said.  “We support development, but not at the people’s expense. Читать дальше...

Prime Minister Robert Abela on Sunday defended increased public sector employment in recent months, saying nearly all the new jobs had been created in the sectors of education and health.   In an interview on the Labour Party’s ONE Radio, Abela said that during the pandemic 9,000 new jobs had been created in Malta.  The Opposition, Abela said, would undoubtedly say these were mostly public sector jobs dished out by the government to secure the public’s vote for the next general election.   However... Читать дальше...

The Socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, on Sunday announced plans to run for president in next year's election, joining a growing list of challengers to centrist Emmanuel Macron. Speaking in the northwestern city of Rouen, Hidalgo said: "I have decided to be a candidate for the presidency of the French Republic."   Hidalgo, 62, was a virtual unknown seven years ago when she succeeded her former mentor and boss, Bertrand Delanoe, as mayor of Paris -- a position seen as a stepping stone to the presidency. Читать дальше...

When speaking about liquidity we mainly refer to the amount of time and money required to transform an investment into cash. Many investors focus solely on the long-term goal of securing their retirement, failing to contemplate the possibility of extraordinary events. It is important to prepare ahead for the times when cash will be required urgently and not to overlook the liquidity attribute of the investment. In simpler terms, liquidity is the ease with which you may access your investment.... Читать дальше...

Not long ago, I was invited to a meeting of a new NGO. The aim was to have a discussion on ways that could help children in Malta, especially those caught up in the acrimonious separation of their parents, be better off. It was a long conversation. It was a heated one at times. But, at one point, the leader of the group asked for my opinion as to what needs to happen for this goal to be reached. I still feel I need to reflect more on the subject to be able to answer this question, for I feel that... Читать дальше...