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These are the main news reported by the leading Maltese news portals:
Doctors, dentists, nurses and allied health professionals who would like to help out with COVID-19 related work are being to get in touch with the health authorities. Source: Times of Malta
The government issued a call for the construction of a prefabricated hospital to be completed in eight weeks. Source: Malta Today
The General Workers Union (GWU) has announced that it will be representing a group of professional health workers. Source: Newsbook
In the first ten days since spot-checks began, more than 2,500 spot-checks were carried out on persons who should be observing mandatory quarantine, imposed to contain the Coronavirus spread. Source: The Malta Independent
With effect from today, people who test positive for Coronavirus and are ordered to self-isolate will be fined 10 thousand euro every time they are are discovered away from their home during police checks. Source: TVM
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics to be postponed for a year
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Appliance maker Electrolux presented a scaled-down restructuring plan for its Italian operations on Monday, cutting the number of planned job losses and relying on voluntary exits, union...
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Malta’s new pay transparency regulations, which came into effect on the 5th of June, aim to strengthen fairness and equality in the workplace, but employers are warning that the rushed i...
The Malta Institute of Accountants held its 62nd Annual General Meeting on 24th September 2026 at Villa Arrigo, during which seven of its members were elected to its Council.
The elec...
The Malta Institute of Accountants held its 62nd Annual General Meeting on 24th September 2026 at Villa Arrigo, during which seven of its members were elected to its Council.
The elec...
Fears of renewed escalation gripped the Middle East on Wednesday after the United States and Iran exchanged their biggest barrage since July, with Washington striking Iran's southern co...
President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he had called off planned U.S. strikes on Iran, saying renewed negotiations had raised hopes of easing the conflict and reopening ship...
At least 32 people have been killed and more than 700 injured after two powerful earthquakes — measuring 7.2 and 7.5 — struck central Venezuela seconds apart, causing widespread destruct...
Thousands of Cuban security personnel have begun leaving Caracas after nearly two decades in Venezuela, as Washington ramps up efforts to dismantle the long standing alliance between the...
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he expected Moscow to escalate the war in "in the coming weeks", following Russian strikes that hit a Warsaw-bound train in Ukraine, just two kil...
The departure from Moldova of a plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to Norway was delayed when authorities closed the country's airspace over a drone alert, a Moldov...
