“According to unconfirmed reports, comrade Haris Doukas has nominated himself as the new leader of HAMAS,” reads a July 31 Facebook post, shared dozens of times.
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With less than four weeks to go until the November 5 election, presidential nominees Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are preparing for the final push in what could be the closest US presidential election in recent history (archived here).
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October 22, 2024 Poor and tasteless construction is rampant in Malta. So it is no surprise that many Maltese believed that a particular image published on Facebook showed a local building. A reverse image search on Google quickly shows that the building is not in Malta. Search results show that it first went viral in
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October 16, 2024 The government claims it is on track to fulfil one of its key electoral promises to rebuild all of Malta’s roads, with Transport Minister Chris Bonett recently telling parliament that the project is “95% complete”. But despite this, the government has turned down repeated requests to provide Times of Malta with a list
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“Two days ago in Samos! (…) Normal landing of 20 to 25 recruits normally!!!!”, said this Facebook post from September 22, 2024, which has since been shared more than 750 times.
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Tilos is home to fewer than 1,000 permanent residents, and is a popular tourism destination in the Dodecanese group of islands in the Aegean Sea. A recent rescue of dozens of migrants and refugees by the port authorities on Tilos led to a clash between the island’s mayor, Maria Kamma-Aliferi, and a tourist, who the mayor claimed had called for the displaced people to be thrown into the sea. The tourist denied this in a Facebook post.
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The sentence only appeared online three months after it was handed down
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August 2, 2024 After a week-long to-and-fro with Cabinet, Edward Scicluna agreed to temporarily step aside from his role at the helm of Malta’s Central Bank on Tuesday evening. Scicluna has served as the Central Bank’s governor since 2021, but has faced calls to step down from the role ever since he was criminally charged
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July 31, 2024 With the dust settling on this year’s local council elections, held on 8th June, many raised renewed questions over the impact that gender quotas are having on Maltese politics. A controversial gender quota mechanism which came into force in the 2022 general elections brought about the election of 12 women to Malta’s parliament. The
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In a report entitled “Russian influence efforts converge on 2024 Paris Olympic Games” published in June 2024, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Centre (MTAC) said that it had “observed a network of Russia-affiliated actors pursuing a range of malign influence campaigns against France, French President Emmanuel Macron, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the Paris Games”.
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