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The EU informal leaders summit takes centre stage in the news agenda, as it brings together the leaders of the member states to discuss migration and Brexit, after a rather ‘long’ summer’.
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U.S. ready to resume North Korea talks, seeks denuclearization by 2021.
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US President Donald Trump has said he does not “have an attorney general” in his fiercest attack yet on Jeff Sessions.
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Brett Kavanaugh: Sexual assault accuser ‘needs more time’.
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Malaysia’s ex-PM Najib arrested in massive 1MDB corruption case.
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Japan’s Shinzo Abe seeks party backing as prime minister.
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U2 frontman Bono has described Pope Francis as being “aghast” about sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
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In the UEFA Champions League Real Madrid, Bayern, Manchester United and – despite a Cristiano Ronaldo red card – Juventus won while Lyon triumphed at Manchester City.
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Nationalist Party Leader Adrian Delia said that the country needs a strong voice in Europe to be able to defend the country’s name. In the meantime the Delia attended the EPP summit in Salzburg. – In-Nazzjon
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Just days from the start of a new academic year, independent and Church schools, as well as thousands of parents, are bracing themselves for what some expect to be “an unprecedented transport and traffic nightmare”. – The Times
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Former Kerygma Movement director Fr Charles Fenech was acquitted of having sexually abused a vulnerable woman after a judge found it had been consensual. The Times
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The Planning Authority Board is today set to be decide on the db group’s ITS site development application. The Malta Independent
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Justice Minister Owen Bonnici defended his order for the removal of the Daphne Caruana Galizia memorial from the Great Siege Monument, highlighting that it is a national monument connected to a national feast, and its significance cannot be changed. The Malta Independent
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Malta’s real GDP growth year on year in the first half of this year far outstrips that registered by other EU countries. The Malta Business Weekly
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A minister and a parliamentary secretary, speaking at two different EU meetings, expressed concern and disapproval at proposed cuts in cohesion funds as discussions about the next financing period started in earnest. The Malta Business Weekly
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Minister Michael Farrugia writes that the children are the centre of the attention in the Child Protection act. L-Orizzont.
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