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Hurricane Dorian regained strength late Wednesday, becoming a Category 3 storm as it moves slowly up the coast and closes in on the Carolinas.
Boris Johnson has lost a bid to call an early general election to break the Brexit deadlock.
The British government has said a bill to stop a no-deal Brexit will complete its passage through the Lords on Friday.
Giuseppe Conte presented the list who will form his cabinet in the new M5S-PD coalition government.
Pope Francis was met by thousands of excited Mozambicans on Wednesday evening, including President Filipe Nyusi, as he began his first papal visit to the southern African country. The pontiff says he brings a message of peace to the war-ravaged nation.
An express train and a truck collided in Japan’s second-largest city of Yokohama on Thursday, train operator Keikyu Corp said, with fire officials confirming that about 30 people were injured.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that the country would soon begin researching and developing improved centrifuges to speed up the process of enriching uranium.
The former first lady of Honduras Rosa Elena Bonilla, wife of ex-president Porfirio Lobo, was sentenced to 58 years in jail on charges of fraud and undue appropriation of funds , a spokesman for the nation’s highest court said.
New Zealand’s ongoing measles outbreak has hit the milestone of more than 1,000 confirmed cases.
Michigan has become the first US state to ban flavoured e-cigarettes as part of efforts to curb youth vaping.
Facial recognition can be legally used by police forces in the UK , judges have ruled.
A man was arrested by Vatican gendarmes for throwing down a candelabra on the main altar of St Peter’s basilica.
Malta’s Newspaper Front Pages
In Malta’s Newspapers we read that the General Retailers and Traders Union expressed concern at the news that Italian discounter Eurospin is planning a market entry in Malta.
We also read about allegations reported in Hungarian press that a man suspected of having ordered executions on behalf of ISIS in Syria, had been found living in Malta with fake documents last year.
The Developers Association president Sandro Chetcuti who described an ‘alarming’ situation after sites collecting construction waste have raised their fees a second time in the space of six months.
Research data showing that the population in St Paul’s Bay has now grown to 30,000 – an increase of 56 percent over a decade.
Today In History
During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage.
Thought for the Day
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Theresa
Today, is International Charity Day. September 5 was chosen in order to commemorate the anniversary of the passing away of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to peace.”
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