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Deborah Schembri has said Malta has made major progress on civil rights over the past 15 years, but warned that not every demand should automatically become a legal right. Speaking to The Malta Independent on Sunday, the Labour candidate said there must be limits grounded in what she considers fundamental principles, while outlining clear positions

Britain's King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States on Monday, as transatlantic tensions simmer over the Iran war, and despite a shooting two days earlier at a dinner attended by his host, President Donald Trump. The four‑day trip by Charles and Queen Camilla is intended to honor historic ties between the two countries as the United

Engineers on Monday called for stronger regulation and mandatory engineering inspections of scrapyards following three fires in six months that took hours to put out. The first fire, which broke out on November 12 at a scrapyard on the outskirts of Għaxaq, had lasted some 16 hours. It took 97 firefighters and 1.2 million litres of water to put out

A genetic mutation identified in Maltese patients may help explain why a painful and often misunderstood skin condition appears relatively common locally, researchers have found. Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic inflammatory disease that causes recurring lumps, abscesses and scarring of the skin, affects an estimated 1.82 per cent of the Maltese