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Guardian: What would Martin Luther King’s dream be in 2018? Leading activists reply

Fifty years after Martin Luther King was assassinated, the civil rights leader’s family and admirers were marking the anniversary of his death with marches, speeches and quiet reflection on Wednesday. The commemorations…

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CNN – Trump pushes back against market fears of trade war

CNN reports that US President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to tamp down economic anxieties over tariffs recently announced by China and the United States. "We are not in a trade…

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Geopolitics: China vs USA Trade Wars

The Chinese government said that tariffs on about $3 billion worth of US imports are going into effect Monday, hitting 128 products ranging from pork, meat and fruit to steel pipes. It's…

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Cambridge Analytica helped ‘cheat’ Brexit vote and US election, claims whistleblower

Misuse of data and “cheating” by Cambridge Analytica and other companies associated with the firm may have altered the outcome of both the U.S. presidential election and the U.K.’s Brexit referendum,…

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Bush-era diplomat tweets that you should be scared, very scared – CNN

A high-ranking official from former President George W. Bush's State Department shared a dire assessment of the current geopolitical state of affairs, calling it "the most perilous moment in modern…

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Poland rules out hosting nuclear weapons

Poland "does not want" allied nuclear weapons stationed on its territory, the country's Deputy Defen...

Malta News Briefing – Friday 28 August 2026

Morning Briefing Yorgen Fenech defence closes as prosecution begins final submissions The defe...

9/11 Trial for Alleged Mastermind Set for June 2028

A US military judge has set 5 June 2028 as the trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three other...

Malta News Briefing – Thursday 27 August 2026

Morning Briefing Defence tells jurors ‘all roads lead to Keith Schembri’ Defence lawyer Charle...

Rescuers struggling to reach disaster zone after more than 160 killed in Nepal-Tibet flash floods

Rescue teams are struggling to reach remote areas of Nepal after a devastating flash flood and mudsl...

Three Akeron anti-tank missiles seized at Italian port

A routine inspection by Italy's Guardia di Finanza at the port of Bari led to the seizure of three A...

Swiss to vote on whether to tighten neutrality, end peacetime cooperation with NATO

Swiss voters will decide in a referendum next month whether to approve a more restrictive form of ne...

MEP charged in Poland after calling Auschwitz evidence ‘fake’

Polish prosecutors charged far-right leader and European Parliament member Grzegorz Braun with denyi...

China examines new legal tool to pursue graft suspects, assets abroad

Top Chinese lawmakers this week began their first review of a draft cross-border anti-corruption law...

Malta News Briefing – Wednesday 26 August 2026

Morning Briefing Hotel guests surge but shorter stays hit occupancy Malta’s hotels and other c...