Новости за 15.10.2021

A British lawmaker since 1983 from the Conservatives' right wing, David Amess was a maverick but courteous Eurosceptic long before the party leadership embraced all-out opposition to the EU. Amess, who was stabbed to death on Friday at the age of 69, never made it to the front ranks of government. But his outspokenness and unfashionable opinions kept him in the media limelight, and his beaming face was a standout image from the Conservatives' shock election victory in 1992 under John Major. Video... Читать дальше...

Thomas Tuchel has warned Chelsea not to expect an easy ride during a run of fixtures that could boost their Premier League title challenge. Tuchel’s side have a golden opportunity to cement their position at the top of the Premier League over the next five matches. The Blues are currently one point clear of second-placed Liverpool after winning five of their first seven games. That margin could be significantly wider by the time they have finished playing Brentford, Norwich, Newcastle, Burnley and Leicester. Читать дальше...

Off-Road racing driver and member of the All-Wheel Drive Club Neville Ciantar is again in Portugal to compete in this year’s edition of the King Of Portugal Off-Road event happening between Saturday and Sunday 17th. The King of Portugal started in 2013 and is one of the biggest and toughest off-road races globally and growing every year. Participants get challenged to go through different circuits on the two main days of the event, a certain number of times, depending on the class they are competing in, in the shortest time possible. Читать дальше...

A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities indicated Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen who converted to Islam and is believed to have been radicalised, has confessed to the Wednesday killings in police questioning. He was in custody in a medical facility on Friday pending a psychiatric evaluation.  Video: AFP "The strongest... Читать дальше...

A 75-year-old pensioner who allegedly sexually harassed a Spanish tourist in the bathroom of the Labour Party club in Floriana was granted bail upon his arraignment on Friday.  Roger Galea, from Rabat, was at the club premises on Thursday evening when the young woman stepped up to the bar counter to order two coffees for herself and her boyfriend, who was seated outside.  “Hello, pretty girl! How are you?”the elderly man allegedly greeted the customer while she placed her order and asked for directions to the toilets. Читать дальше...

The daughter of a Sicilian judge killed by the Mafia will be addressing a vigil on Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination, which she insisted “can never and will never be forgotten”. Speaking from the European Parliament, MEP Caterina Chinnici’s personal thoughts for the family of the investigative journalist’s “brutal” murder will be conveyed with “authentic participation”. Born in Palermo, Chinnici is the daughter of Judge Rocco Chinnici, killed by the Mafia in 1983. Читать дальше...

Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, the world’s leading producer of high-quality live entertainment, and Visit Malta have announced the opening of a brand-new production created exclusively for Malta.  Malta will be the first European country to host a new Cirque due Soleil show after the company had to stop performances for nearly 17 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The production, titled FIERI, will be presented in Valletta from November 25 to December 19.  The event, which will feature... Читать дальше...

Crystal Palace boss Patrick Vieira is looking forward to an emotional return to Arsenal as he prepares to face his old club for the first time in his managerial career. Vieira heads to the Emirates Stadium on Monday for an occasion that will stir countless memories for the former Arsenal and France star. The 45-year-old won three Premier League titles and four FA Cups with Arsenal, captaining them through their unbeaten “Invincible” top-flight season in 2003/04. Continue reading this article on Sports Desk. Читать дальше...

Pep Guardiola says he wants Raheem Sterling to fight for his place at Manchester City after the frustrated forward admitted he “would be open” to leaving the Premier League champions. England forward Sterling has been with City since 2015, when he moved from Liverpool, and has won three Premier League titles with the club. However, the 26-year-old has made just two league starts this season, struggling with his form and fierce competition from attacking stars including Phil Foden and club record signing Jack Grealish. Читать дальше...

Extradition proceedings against a man allegedly linked to a $50 million racket defrauding the US Navy are set to continue following an appeal filed by the Attorney General. Frank Salvatore Rafaraci, the 68-year-old Italian-American national born in New York, has been at the centre of an extradition saga played out before the Maltese courts since his arraignment on September 27. He was arrested after arriving on a brief visit to Malta in a joint operation between local and US authorities who are... Читать дальше...

Shares in Taiwan’s microchip giant TSMC soared on Friday forecasting, posting better-than-expected profits for the rest of the year and following the announcement of plans to build its first factory in Japan. The world is in the midst of a severe shortage of silicon microchips that are used in everything from cars and missiles to phones and games consoles. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) operates the world’s largest silicon wafer factories and produces some of the smallest – and most advanced – microchips. Читать дальше...

A ship's captain who rescued a group of 101 migrants from the Mediterranean sea before handing them over to the Libyan coastguard has been given a one-year jail term, in the first such case heard by Italy's courts. Giuseppe Sotgiu was convicted of violating international laws that forbid the forced return of people to countries where they are at risk, according to a copy of the ruling dated October 13, seen by AFP on Friday. Rights groups hailed the judgement, with Doctors Without Borders (MSF)... Читать дальше...

Teatru Malta has launched the autumn/winter programme of events, their first since 2020, featuring the work that the national theatre company has focused on developing over the course of the pandemic. The programme opens with the dance theatre performance O, dedicated to the late Oliver Friggieri a year on from his death. O is directed by Teatru Malta’s artistic director Sean Buhagiar, choreographed by Cheryl Lofreda and performed by the MVMT, Jamie Cardona and Clare Tonna with original music by Chris Vella. Читать дальше...

A total of 135,690 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Rwanda from Malta on Friday morning. The vaccines arrived in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, on a seven-hour Air Malta charter flight. It was the longest non-stop flight ever operated by the airline. Rwanda has so far vaccinated just 15% of its population. It has received around 3.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – 1.1 million of these from the COVAX Facility (an international collaboration of donor countries), 108,000 from the Africa Centres... Читать дальше...

Elmo Insurance have announced their sponsorship of Santa Lucia Football Club. Santa Lucia’s team, The Saints, will now begin sporting the Elmo Insurance logo across their uniforms. It’s a sponsorship that will nurture the club, and Malta’s favourite sport, for three years. This year marks Elmo’s 40th anniversary, however, it’s not the only one celebrating its long-standing history. Santa Lucia’s football club was founded almost 50 years ago – a testament to how while so much has changed, the club’s passion remains. Читать дальше...

Police officers and animal welfare officials turned up to a Birzebbuga man’s home on Friday to confiscate some 45 dogs. A court earlier this week fined Antonio Vella €20,000 and banned him from keeping dogs for 25 years after being found guilty of neglect. He was also handed a two year prison sentence suspended for four years. Dogs seized from the home. Video: Matthew Mirabelli Police arrived at Triq 31 ta Marzu to confiscate the animals on Friday afternoon, with the street ringing with the whining and barking of dogs. Читать дальше...

The Manoel Theatre is looking for a new artistic director, but management insists the current one, Kenneth Zammit Tabona, has not been sacked. An advert uploaded on social media on Friday called for a new artistic director for the national theatre to work with the chief executive officer in a consultative role to implement the artistic strategic direction and ensure the theatre operates a sustainable business model.  But when contacted, Teatru Manoel CEO Massimo Zammit said Zammit Tabona still... Читать дальше...

China’s economic growth is expected to have slowed further in the third quarter, according to an AFP poll of analysts, with a mounting energy crisis and property market tremours casting a pall as the country’s post-COVID recovery lost steam. While the world’s number-two economy bounced back quickly from the coronavirus outbreak last year, with gross domestic product growth returning to pre-pandemic levels, economists say further slowdown is “inevitable”. Growth is forecast to come in at 5.0 per... Читать дальше...

British soul diva Adele on Friday released comeback single Easy On Me, in which she shares with the world details of the traumatic six years she has endured since last releasing a record. In that period, the 33-year-old megastar said she suffered a “year of anxiety” in which her marriage fell apart. While her voice has lost none of its power, the new single’s lyrics reveal a deeper vulnerability, with every chorus opening with the soaring refrain “go easy on me, baby” sung over a simple piano riff. Читать дальше...

A man, found guilty of assaulting two Transport Malta officials on duty at the Nadur Carnival last year, was jailed and fined by a court that declared that such an attack on a public officer was “an attack against society as a whole”. Clyde Farrugia was tracked down as the balaclava-clad suspect who had crept up behind the two officers on Triq il-Paljijiet in the early hours of the morning on February 23, 2020, swinging one of them by the shoulder before punching him straight in the face.  Shortly before that incident... Читать дальше...

A couple of weeks ago the Manoel Theatre announced its programme of events which, COVID permitting, will open rather late in the season at the end of October and stretch all the way to July. However, what should have been cause for a belated celebration has seen autumnal storm clouds metaphorically and literally mar the occasion. This was caused by the very evident absence of the Manoel Theatre’s Artistic Director, Kenneth Zammit Tabona. This was no surprise to those in the business, as there... Читать дальше...

Updated 4.10pm Conservative British lawmaker David Amess was killed on Friday after being stabbed "multiple times" during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, in the second death of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. Local police did not name Amess but said a man had been arrested "on suspicion (of) murder" after the stabbing in Leigh-on-Sea. "We are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident," said Essex police, adding that the man in custody was aged 25, and a knife was recovered. Читать дальше...

The Budget for 2022 has failed to address various anomalies of the employment laws which the UĦM Voice of the Workers has been flagging for years, the union’s port and transport section said on Friday. It said in a statement that a major issue is that not all employees are paid at the double rate on Sundays. The section said the union has been harping on this point and will keep insisting to amend the laws to address this injustice. It said that although the measure for contractor employees working... Читать дальше...

A row of trees along the Msida front promenade had to be uprooted because they were 'inappropriate for the site', the Grand Harbour Regeneration Corporation has said. The Ficus nitida trees were felled on Thursday, stripping the path of shade and horrifying onlookers, one of whom described it as a "tree massacre". But the Corporation, which is managing works in the area, insisted the uprooted trees would be replanted elsewhere and new, mature trees planted in their place.  “The tree species are ficus ntida... Читать дальше...

Malta must create and maintain an enabling environment in which the press is able to carry out its essential democratic function, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family said. In a statement issued in remembrance of the journalist’s life and work on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of her assassination tomorrow, the family called upon the government to ”unequivocally condemn the climate of impunity and negative rhetoric” identified by the public inquiry into her murder. The family said it was renewing... Читать дальше...