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Biden to impose South Africa travel ban to combat new COVID-19 variant – CDC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will impose a ban on most non-U.S. citizens entering the country who have recently been in South Africa starting Saturday in a bid to contain the spread of a new variant of COVID-19, a senior U.S. public health official told Reuters. Biden on M...

Dutch police detain 240 nationwide as anti-lockdown protests turn violent

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Rioters looted stores, set fires and clashed with police in several Dutch cities on Sunday, resulting in more than 240 arrests, police and Dutch media reported. The unrest came on the second day of new, tougher coronavirus restrictions, including a night curfew, wh...

EU says it will make vaccine companies respect supply contracts – Michel

PARIS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The European Union will make pharmaceutical companies respect contracts they have signed for the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, European Council President Charles Michel said on Sunday. Pfizer Inc last week said it was temporarily slowing supplies to Europe to ma...

Malta News Briefing – Monday 25 January 2021

Morning Briefing 2020 was most difficult year in Maltese history - PM Prime Minister Robert Abela described 2020 as the most difficult in the history of our nation, but insisted that despite the hardships, decisions taken by Government ensured a strong recovery will be possible. Had...

Malta News Briefing – Sunday 24 January 2021 – UPDATED

Good Evening Update 1900h A total 116 new COVID-19 cases were announced on Sunday, the lowest daily case count since January 3 and three fewer than on Saturday. The new cases were detected from 3,111 swab tests, bringing down the positivity rate to 2.83%. One patient - an 81-year-o...

Malta: PN officials say party is in a process of renewal

Il-Mument publishes interviews with PN deputy leaders David Agius and Robert Arrigo and the parliamentary group secretary Karol Aquilina on the process of renewal with the party after a new shadow cabinet was announced on Wednesday. Another report says that there are 1,000 people appoin...

EU says it will make vaccine companies respect supply contracts – Michel

EU should punish Putin for Navalny arrest by cutting money flows – Manfred Weber

BERLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The European Union should punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny and thousands of his supporters with targeted financial sanctions, the leader of the bloc's largest political alliance said on Sunday. Police deta...

Turkey hopes Mediterranean talks can calm choppy waters with EU

BRUSSELS/ANKARA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - After a five-year hiatus marked by grievances over their rival claims to Mediterranean waters, Turkey resumes talks with Greece on Monday in the first test of its hopes to reverse deteriorating relations with the European Union. While diplomats say th...

MEPs vote to add Channel and British Virgin Islands to tax haven blacklist

The European parliament is pushing for UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey and Jersey to be added to an EU tax havens blacklist after the conclusion of the Brexit deal. Sending a signal that tougher action on tax avoidance was required in response to t...

EU to seek more time to ratify trade deal with UK – FT

The Financial Times reports that the EU is set to ask Britain for more time to ratify the new trade deal despite the UK urging the EU to press ahead quickly, with the issue becoming a fresh point of tension between the two sides. The report states that the diplomats which are quoted b...

UK stars from Ed Sheeran to Elton John raise alarm over post-Brexit music tours

More than 100 British musicians, from Ed Sheeran, Sting and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to classical stars like conductor Simon Rattle, have said tours of Europe by British artists are in danger because of Brexit. In a letter to The Times newspaper published on Wednesday, the musicians sa...

Israel bans international flights to curb coronavirus spread

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday evening for a week, the government announced on Sunday, as protesters in some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities clashed with police over coronavirus lockdown measures. Clashes broke out between...

New Zealand probes first ‘probable’ community COVID-19 case in months

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand health officials said on Sunday they were investigating what they said was probably the country's first community coronavirus case, in months in a woman who recently returned from overseas. The 56-year-old, who returned to New Zealand on Dec. 30,...

Biden to impose South Africa travel ban to combat new COVID-19 variant – CDC

Maltese Academic Uncovers New Insights Into Painted Crucifix Attributed to Antonio de Saliba at London’s V&A

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) touts itself as “the world's leading museum of art, design and performance housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over…

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Community People

by Professor JosAnn Cutajar, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Definition of Community A community consists of a group of individuals or families that share certain values, interests,…

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Govt must support media as it has bigger role to play during crisis – Prof Azzopardi

Prof Andrew Azzopardi has urged Government to set up as soon as possible a financial package that can supports the media during this time of crisis. Prof Azzopardi argued that…

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We’re in it together (Societal Well Being – UOM – CI)

The Faculty for Social Wellbeing has embarked on a new initiative, in collaboration with the Corporate ID Group's Corporate Dispatch, of publishing our first ever Faculty Research Magazine, in the Societas.Expert…

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Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Ann Marie Cutajar, Research Officer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction Defining ‘homelessness’ and the ‘homeless person’ might not be the most straightforward task. The definition of homelessness varies according to the…

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Loneliness – A Modern Epidemic (Social Wellbeing UOM) – Dr Natalie Kenely

by Dr. Natalie Kenely, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction Most of us know it, are acquainted with it. At some point…

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Housing in Malta: The Cultural Goals VS. Institutionalised Means Conundrum (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Dr. Maria Brown, Visiting Senior Lecturer, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Introduction The current housing situation in Malta needs to be contextualised in a mainstreamed culture where home ownership is…

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On Mental Health and Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Dr. Paulann Grech, Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Introduction It has often been described as the island of ‘sun and blue skies’. So it is, with our…

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Community People in general are social ‘animals’ so they tend to congregate in groups, communities (Social Wellbeing UOM)

by Dr. JosAnn Cutajar, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Definition of Community A community consists of a group of individuals or families that share certain…

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Biden to impose South Africa travel ban to combat new COVID-19 variant – CDC

Dutch police detain 240 nationwide as anti-lockdown protests turn violent

EU says it will make vaccine companies respect supply contracts – Michel

Malta News Briefing – Monday 25 January 2021

Malta News Briefing – Sunday 24 January 2021 – UPDATED

Malta: PN officials say party is in a process of renewal

EU says it will make vaccine companies respect supply contracts – Michel

EU should punish Putin for Navalny arrest by cutting money flows – Manfred Weber

Turkey hopes Mediterranean talks can calm choppy waters with EU

MEPs vote to add Channel and British Virgin Islands to tax haven blacklist

EU to seek more time to ratify trade deal with UK – FT

UK stars from Ed Sheeran to Elton John raise alarm over post-Brexit music tours

Israel bans international flights to curb coronavirus spread

New Zealand probes first ‘probable’ community COVID-19 case in months

Biden to impose South Africa travel ban to combat new COVID-19 variant – CDC

Maltese Academic Uncovers New Insights Into Painted Crucifix Attributed to Antonio de Saliba at London’s V&A

Community People

Govt must support media as it has bigger role to play during crisis – Prof Azzopardi

We’re in it together (Societal Well Being – UOM – CI)

Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

Loneliness – A Modern Epidemic (Social Wellbeing UOM) – Dr Natalie Kenely

Housing in Malta: The Cultural Goals VS. Institutionalised Means Conundrum (Social Wellbeing UOM)

On Mental Health and Homelessness (Social Wellbeing UOM)

Community People in general are social ‘animals’ so they tend to congregate in groups, communities (Social Wellbeing UOM)

Researching Loneliness: The Relevance of Mixed-Methods Approaches (Social Wellbeing UOM)

Dialogue & Conflict (Social Wellbeing UOM)

Service Delivery (Social Wellbeing UOM)

Raising the Threshold: Towards the Professionalisation of Residential Child Caregivers (Social Wellbeing UOM)