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Fact-check Malta: How much will Malta’s new Cabinet cost?

Roughly €780,000 more than the Cabinet cost last week
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Fact-check: Was €400m 'stolen' through the hospitals deal? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Was €400m ‘stolen’ through the hospitals deal?

The parties have long been bickering over whether or not this figure includes salaries
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Fact-check: Was 2023 the property sector's 'second-best ever year'? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Was 2023 the property sector’s ‘second-best ever year’?

Developers claimed that this was the case, saying promise of sale agreements have shot up
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This video of a man appearing to urinate in a supermarket was staged - Featured image

This video of a man appearing to urinate in a supermarket was staged

The video created by a social media user in The Netherlands was shared by a Dutch entertainment site on December 17, 2023 from where it ...
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Fact-check: How many MPs have a government job? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: How many MPs have a government job?

The spectre of MPs holding phantom government jobs re-emerged in recent weeks
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Fact-check: Pandemic treaty will hand WHO ‘nearly unlimited powers’ - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Pandemic treaty will hand WHO ‘nearly unlimited powers’

The proposed treaty actually highlights countries’ sovereignty over their healthcare policies
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Fact-check: How much do teachers earn? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: How much do teachers earn?

An ongoing pay dispute led to a nationwide strike on Monday
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Greece's Antikythera is not offering incentives to draw Pakistani families - Featured image

Greece’s Antikythera is not offering incentives to draw Pakistani families

Local authorities told AFP in November 2023 they had for years been considering a plan to have five Greek Orthodox families move to the island. ...
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Fact-check: Did police investigate the Stephen Spiteri false certificate case? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Did police investigate the Stephen Spiteri false certificate case?

PL MP Silvio Grixti asked why Spiteri was not investigated in a flurry of Facebook posts in recent weeks
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Fact-check: Has Malta’s population ‘almost doubled’ since 2013? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Has Malta’s population ‘almost doubled’ since 2013?

Bernard Grech claimed that this was the case in a speech in parliament on Wednesday
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Fact-check: Viral satellite image of a desert-like Malta was not taken this year - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Viral satellite image of a desert-like Malta was not taken this year

The image shows Malta in October 2022
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Fact-check: Are Ficus trees in Mosta 'alien' or 'invasive'? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Are Ficus trees in Mosta ‘alien’ or ‘invasive’?

Mosta council's application to ERA described trees as alien. The law says otherwise
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