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Start your day informed with our morning briefing which provides you a roundup of the salient news from Malta, Europe and around the world.
Boris Johnson has cancelled a meeting with Tory Brexit rebels , heightening party tensions ahead of what could be an explosive week in Westminster.
The leader of Italy’s Democratic Party (PD) said on Sunday his team was working hard to form a new coalition government with once bitter adversaries from the 5-Star Movement , with a common agenda and a deal over cabinet posts still being hammered out.
The internationally-recognized Libyan government led by Faiez Serraj and the United Nations condemned the attack on Mitiga airport which led to civilian casualties.
An Afghan man was in a “psychotic state” and on drugs during a multiple stabbing in France that killed one person and injured eight others, but investigators haven’t found any terrorist ties, a regional prosecutor said Sunday.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg has opened up about her Asperger’s diagnosis , explaining why she does not frequently speak publicly about living with the condition.
More than 100 people have been killed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen , the Red Cross has said. Bodies are being recovered from the rubble of a prison in Dhamar in the west of the country, the humanitarian organisation added.
Malta’s Newspapers
In the Maltese newspapers we read that nearly a hundred cases of online child abuse have been investigated by the police over the past two-and-a-half years, with cases ranging from downloading of pornography featuring minors to child grooming. We also read that 104 unaccompanied migrants under the age of 18, the vast majority of them males, arrived in Malta in 2018 according to information provided by the Home Affairs Ministry.
Full Press Review from Malta can be read on the Corporate Dispatch Malta Newspaper Review .
On This Day
In 1944 the holocaust diarist Anne Frank sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, while in 1945 Japanese leaders aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri signed an unconditional surrender, ending World War Two.
Thought for the day…
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank
Corporate Dispatch
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Morning Briefing
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The p...
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The oil prod...
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