Reading Time: < 1 minute British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will urge other G20 leaders to take more ambitious action to defeat the coronavirus pandemic and to address climate change at a weekend virtual summit in Saudi Arabia. In remarks ahead of the meeting, Johnson appealed to leaders of the other nations which make up the G20 group of major economies
Reading Time: < 1 minute In-Nazzjon reports on a visit by PN Leader Bernard Grech to transportation company eCabs on Friday. Grech said that the party wants an economy based on quality not quantity, which creates sustainable jobs. Another story says that a Danish man suspected of involvement in the Sliema double murder this summer remains in police
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Independent says that Jesper Kristiansen, the third man accused of involvement in the killing of Ivor Maciejowski and Chris Pandolfino in August, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The Danish man was arrested in Madrid a few days after the murder and extradited to Malta. A second story quotes Police Commissioner Angelo
Reading Time: < 1 minute L-Orizzont says that newly co-opted MP Clyde Caruana is favourite to be appointed Finance Minister when Edward Scicluna steps down at the end of the year. Caruana is the Prime Minister’s chief of staff and served as CEO of Jobsplus. The paper speaks to General Workers Union secretary general Josef Bugeja who praised a move
Reading Time: < 1 minute Donald Trump Jr., the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, tested positive for COVID-19 this week, although he is experiencing no symptoms, according to his spokesman. Trump Jr. tested positive at the start of the week and has been “quarantining at his cabin since the result,” the spokesman said. Donald Trump Jr speaks at the
Reading Time: < 1 minute Italy has registered 37,242 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday, up from 36,176 the day before. The ministry also reported 699 COVID 19-related deaths, up from 653 on Thursday. There were 238,077 coronavirus swabs carried out in the past day, the ministry said, against a previous
Reading Time: 3 minutes Leaders of the 20 biggest world economies (G20) will debate this weekend how to deal with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that has caused a global recession and how to manage the recovery once the coronavirus is under control. High on the agenda are purchases and global distribution of vaccines, drugs and tests for low income
Reading Time: < 1 minute Turkey has to cease provocations in the eastern Mediterranean if it wants to avoid new discussions about European Union sanctions against Ankara at an EU summit in December, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday. “It is up to Turkey what decision will be taken at the EU summit in December,” Maas said ahead of
Reading Time: < 1 minute Domenico Tallini, the president of the Calabria regional assembly, was put under house arrest by Carabinieri police on Thursday in relation to alleged links to the southern region’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia. The 68-year-old member of the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party is accused of external involvement in mafia association
Reading Time: 2 minutes German police said they had opened a murder inquiry against a senior doctor in the western city of Essen over the killing of two seriously ill coronavirus patients with a lethal injection, authorities. The doctor, 44, who had been working at the University Hospital in Essen since February, is suspected of having killed two men,