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Prime Minister Robert Abela has forcefully denied accusations that he encroached on the independence of the courts, insisting with journalists outside parliament on Tuesday evening that any concerns raised by Judge Lawrence Mintoff will be addressed through the institutional mechanisms established to safeguard judicial standards. The dispute erupted

The government has announced it is funding three mobile crisis centres in two Ukrainian cities as Ukrainians living in Malta marked four years since Russia’s military invasion with a silent march through Valletta on Tuesday evening. Foreign Minister Ian Borg said the government is funding the “immediate deployment” of the three centres in Kyiv and

Britain's government committed Tuesday to releasing documents on ex-prince Andrew's past role as a trade envoy, after the Jeffrey Epstein scandal widened with the arrest of a veteran UK politician. The fallout from the publication last month by US authorities of millions of files related to late sex offender Epstein is reverberating around the British

Three Maltese nationals have received eight-month prison sentences, suspended for two years, after being convicted in connection with a large-scale nitrous oxide distribution scheme in the French Alps. The ruling was delivered by a court in Albertville, which also imposed a €1,000 fine on each man and banned them from entering France for five years

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Last Monday, Cardinal Marc Ouellet , former prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, published a provocative piece titled “On lay people in positions of authority in the Roman Curia”. His intervention touches a raw nerve in a Church caught between the ‘rock’ of tradition – at risk of calcifying into nostalgia for what-has-always-been – and the ‘hard place’

Gayle Lynn Callus of Malta International Airport writes: Malta International Airport refers to the letter by James Dunn of Cospicua (‘Airport trolleys should be free’, February 15), which incorrectly states that airport trolleys are not free. For clarity, airport trolleys are indeed free of charge. The €1 coin required is simply a temporary deposit

A sad statistic is that autistic children face a much higher risk from drowning than other children. It is, in fact, 160 times higher when compared to other children of the same age. Paradoxically, swimming is the ideal way to provide the safety and security needed for autistic children to take to water, as it is often and naturally so attractive to