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'Marsa' and 'Bormla' prepare for a Maltese regatta, 16,000km away from home
Times of Malta
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August 27, 2025
A regatta seeped in Maltese tradition will take place far from Malta this September. Sixteen thousand kilometres away from the Grand Harbour, a Maltese community in Australia is preparing to host a race between ‘Marsa’ and ‘Bormla’ on Independence...
New local TV show ‘The Hub’ coming to YourTV Peterborough
PTBO Today
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August 27, 2025
YourTV Peterborough is launching a new program aimed at filling a local gap in visual storytelling. The weekly show, called The Hub, will focus on community events, sports, and entertainment in Peterborough. According to Dan Malta, a producer at...
Plus-sized traveller’s ‘entitled’ plane act divides social media
Sky News Australia
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August 27, 2025
A plus-sized woman has shared why she will no longer book a second seat on a plane when she travels, sparking anger online over her reasons. Kirsty Leanne, who describes herself on Instagram as "your queer plus-sized travel bestie", is known for...
Malta’s media freedom: Laws on paper, shackles in practice
The Shift
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August 26, 2025
Legal Notice 175 of 2025, bearing the grandiose title European Media Freedom Act (Measures for Implementation) Order has just been published. It sounds impressive, doesn’t it? What the man on the Clapham Omnibus is supposed to understand is that...
Malta Women's Lobby slams Labour for excusing 'misogynistic' deputy mayor
Times of Malta
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August 26, 2025
The Labour Party has been condemned as insensitive and "pitiful" by a leading women's lobby after it defended a deputy mayor who was forced to apologise for saying women "enjoy being beaten". The Malta Women's Lobby said it was "beyond...
Kustendorf Classic: Armenian artists to take the stage at Emir Kusturica’s Music Festival
Public Radio of Armenia
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August 26, 2025
From September 4 to 6, the renowned ethno-village “Mećavnik,” created by celebrated film director Emir Kusturica, will host the next edition of the International Classical Music Festival Kustendorf Classic. The festival annually gathers young...
Public urged to object to “destructive planning reform” and “sham” consultation – NGOs
Gozo News
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August 27, 2025
Nine NGOs, in a united front, have expressed alarm at the Government’s intention to “plough ahead with a legislative package that would enable a total developers’ takeover of our planning system, while also regularising all sorts of illegalities...
Top 10 Greatest Movie Detectives Ranked
Screen Rant
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August 25, 2025
The crime genre of cinema is primarily best known for both great movies where the villain wins in the end, and murder mystery movies that focus on the whodunnit aspect of the genre. The best crime films have genius movie plot twists that make you...
What’s on in Malta and Gozo this week: August 25 to 31, 2025
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
THEATRE Ġaħan Teatru Malta is commemorating the birth centenary of Malta’s most influential modern playwright, Francis Ebejer (1925–1993), with Ġaħan at Fort St Elmo from August 28 to 31 at 9pm. This bold adaptation of Ebejer’s final play,...
Watch - Several Maltese on cruise ship stranded by engine failure
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
Several Maltese were among 8,500 passengers and crew who were stranded on a cruise ship for several hours after it suffered engine failure off Naples. The MSC World Europa was just starting a cruise in the central/western Mediterranean when the...
L-Appostlu Tal-Ġnus: Original Maltese musical
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
This September, Munxar Square in Gozo will be transformed into an open-air theatre for one of the most ambitious cultural productions ever staged on the island. L-Appostlu Tal-Ġnus, an original Maltese musical, will bring together history, music,...
China Medical Team in Malta hold TCM free clinic in the evening in Marsaxlokk
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
On the evening of August 22, the 20th China Medical Team from the Mediterranean Regional Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine (MRCTCM) successfully held a free clinic activity in Marsaxlokk. This event featuring traditional Chinese medicine not...
Times of Malta marks 90 years with debate on journalism’s survival
Times of Malta
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August 25, 2025
Times of Malta will mark its 90th anniversary with a high-level business breakfast exploring the role of journalism in an age of uncertainty. The conference, themed ‘Media in the Age of Uncertainty: Can Journalism Survive the Attack on the...
Malta gets one to two ALS cases per month, researcher says
The Malta Independent
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Project leader Professor Ruben J. Cauchi with ALS/MND Lab team members, including Sylvana Tabone, Paul Herrera and Rebecca Cacciottolo. Tabone is supported by a Tertiary Education Scholarship; Dr Cacciottolo is supported by Reach High II...
7 DC Movies That Require a Rewatch to Fully Understand
Screen Rant
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August 25, 2025
DC hasn't had the best run of luck with their movies over the last decade or so, but some movies do end up making a lot more sense on a rewatch. While DC led the way in terms of movies as early as the 1940s down through the decades and into the...
Activists hold protest against Israel-linked medical conference in Malta
Times of Malta
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August 24, 2025
Pro-Palestine activists held a demonstration on Sunday against an Israeli-affiliated medical conference being held in Malta. The 33rd World Congress of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP) is taking place at...
My favorite experiences in Malta (that you’ll want on your itinerary)
The Manual - Oregon
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August 24, 2025
Though it spans only 122 square miles and ranks as the 10th smallest country in the world, Malta has so much to see and do. Located just south of Sicily, Italy, this tiny island country has so much to explore, from top-tier wineries to fortified...
Kola Mustacci’s murder in 1598
Times of Malta
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August 27, 2025
The written records of the late cinquecento only retain the faintest traces of a gruesome homicide – that of a humble Maltese native at the hands of two far-from-humble noblemen – a professed knight of the Order and a young aristocrat present in...
Malta’s Fashion Jam: ‘Green is the New Black’
Times of Malta
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August 23, 2025
What happens when you lock studios full of designers, makers, and fashion design enthusiasts together for 24 hours and give them just one central theme? At last week’s designMT Fashion Jam, the answer was equal parts chaos, creativity, and...
Trailblazers: 50 Santa Cruzans Who Shaped Our County
Good Times - California
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August 27, 2025
At the beginning of 2025, as we contemplated Good Times’ 50th birthday, publisher Dan Pulcrano presented an idea that’s been front of mind ever since: Come up with a list of 50 people who changed Santa Cruz, during a period that transformed the...