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Make the Vatican great again? USA president Donald Trump posts AI generated image of himself dressed as pope. Photo: Truth Social platform

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Greek police experts search for evidence after a bomb explosion in Thessaloniki on May 3, 2025. Photo: AFP

Woman dies after bomb explodes in her hand near bank in Greece

The unemployed former mine operator, Iryna Mamalakieva, 31, plays with her 4-year-old son Maksym nearby the charitable foundation. Photo: AFP

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Selahattin Demirtas, who co-leads the People’s Democratic Party in Turkey, is insisting that President Tayyip Erdogan (above) is aiming for a one-man rule. Photo: Reuters

Turkish Opposition says Erdogan seeks ‘constitutional dictatorship’

The head of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition yesterday accused President Tayyip Erdogan of trying to create a “constitutional dictatorship” by pushing for an executive presidential system, and of fostering a climate of fear to win an election...

November 9, 2015| Reuters
Prime Minister David Cameron addressing the annual conference of the CBI at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London yesterday. Photo: PA

Cameron – I am deadly serious about EU reform

David Cameron has denied watering down his EU renegotiation demands as he insisted he was “deadly serious” about the need for reform. The Prime Minister, whose speech to the Confederation of British Industry was briefly disrupted by Eurosceptic...

November 9, 2015| PA Media
Yuri Milner has set his sights on giving the sciences the same cultural resonance as sports or entertainment. Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters

Breakthroughs awarded $21m

Seven recipients receive three times more than Nobel Prize winners but prize shared

November 9, 2015| Reuters

After 14 years, Nato ponders future of its Afghan mission

With more than 3,000 coalition members dead since start of quest, there is little appetite among Western countries for deeper military involvement Nato partners are considering ways of beefing up their training and assistance mission in Afghanistan as...

November 9, 2015| Reuters

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Lennon guitar sells for $2.4m

November 9, 2015| PA Media
Times of Malta

Migrants at British RAF base on Cyprus given asylum deadline

Britain has given dozens of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese migrants camped at its military base on Cyprus seven days to claim asylum in the country or face deportation to Lebanon, a government spokesman said on Monday. Two fishing boats carrying 115...

November 9, 2015| Times of Malta

Aung San Suu Kyi wins historic election in Myanmar by a landslide

The party of Myanmar (Burma) opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won the historic general election held over the weekend, and supporters have been urged not to provoke their losing rivals. The acting chairman of Myanmar's ruling party conceded...

November 9, 2015| Times of Malta

Estonian Air folds after EU state aid ruling

Estonian Air, a small state-controlled airline with a handful of planes, has ceased operations after European Union regulators ordered Estonia to recover €85 million in state aid granted to it. On Saturday the European Commission ruled following a...

November 9, 2015| Times of Malta

Pope deplores Vatican leaks, says reforms will continue

Pope Francis has condemned the leak of sensitive Vatican documents as a deplorable crime but said it would not distract him from forging ahead with reforms at the Holy See. The leaks are one of the biggest internal scandals to hit Francis' papacy and...

November 9, 2015| Times of Malta
Police inspect cars going into the airport of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, yesterday. Photo: Reuters

‘90 per cent sure’ bomb downed plane in Egypt

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are “90 per cent sure” the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team said yesterday. The Airbus A321 crashed 23 minutes...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
An M-17 Russian helicopter. Photo: Reuters

Conflicts spur demand for Russian helicopters

Conflicts and militant attacks in the Middle East and elsewhere will offset falling demand for helicopters driven by softer oil prices, the head of Russsian Helicopters said yesterday. Russian Helicopters, part of state corporation Rostec, is unlikely...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
The latest allegation has deepened a crisis which erupted in September when Volkswagen admitted it had rigged US tests for nitrogen oxide emissions. Photo: Reuters

VW staff admit ‘fixing’ cars for emissions tests

Several Volkswagen engineers have admitted manipulating carbon dioxide emissions data, saying the ambitious goals set by former chief executive Martin Winterkorn were difficult to achieve, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag has reported. It said VW...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Times of Malta

Germany’s capacity to take in refugees limited – Schaeuble

Germany needs to send a message to the world that it’s reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe’s flood of migrants, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said yesterday, as he advocated restricting family reunions for Syrian...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Pope Francis has already made changes in the Vatican administration and is insisting that further changes will take place. Photo: Reuters

Pope deplores Vatican leaks, says reforms will continue

Pope Francis yesterday condemned the leak of sensitive Vatican documents as a deplorable crime but said it would not distract him from forging ahead with reforms at the Holy See. The leaks are one of the biggest internal scandals to hit Pope Francis’s...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary police stand at the scene of a car-ramming near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Tapuach south of Nablus yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Palestinian driver shot dead in West Bank after ramming car in bus stop

A Palestinian driver was shot dead after ramming his car into a bus stop in the occupied West Bank, injuring four people, police said yesterday, the latest in violence that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss in White House...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transitting the South China Sea last week. Photo: US Navy via Reuters

‘US navigation moves in S. China Sea will continue’

The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said early yesterday, although he gave no timeline for any such actions. Mr Carter’s comments, delivered at a defence forum at...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Times of Malta

National Oil Corporation chief in Tripoli sees full backing for company unity

Libya’s oil partners and the international community fully back the unity of state-run National Oil Corporation, despite attempts by the recognised government in the east to set up a parallel oil payment system, the NOC chief in Tripoli said. Four...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waving at supporters while visiting polling stations at her constituency of Kawhmu township yesterday. Photos: Reuters

Suu Kyi supporters confident following Myanmar’s election

Supporters of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi burst into boisterous celebration yesterday after the country held its first free nationwide election in 25 years, the biggest step yet in a journey to democracy from dictatorship. Although the outcome of the...

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Joan Collins posing for photographers on the red carpet at the world premiere of the new James Bond film Spectre at the Royal Albert Hall in London last month. Photo: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Joan Collins: ‘I turned down big money for I’m A Celebrity appearance’

Joan Collins says she was offered a “massive” sum of money to appear on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! The veteran star, who says she will be having a family Christmas with her children and those of her late sister Jackie, said she turned down...

November 8, 2015| PA Media

Once in a blue moon jewel

Large blue diamond, one of world’s rarest, could fetch $55m on Wednesday

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Times of Malta

1968 If I Can Dream Elvis boots up for sale

A pair of boots worn by Elvis Presley during his 1968 performance of If I Can Dream is to go under the hammer. The white Verde boots are being sold by specialist auctioneer Henry Aldridge & Son later this month and are expected to fetch between £25,000...

November 8, 2015| PA Media

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Zoo debut for elephant shrews

November 8, 2015| PA Media
Times of Malta

Russian tourists flown home from Egypt

Dozens of airliners are bringing Russian tourists back home from Egypt in the wake of the Russian plane crash, carrying only cabin baggage, while Russian cargo planes were hauling back the rest of their luggage. At least 26 flights from the Egyptian...

November 8, 2015| PA Media

Croatians go to the polls amid migrant crisis

Croatians went to the polls today amid a massive migrant surge and deep economic woes. Neither the conservatives, led by former intelligence chief Tomislav Karamarko, nor the Social Democrats, led by incumbent Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, are...

November 8, 2015| PA Media

Palestinian shot dead after ramming car into Israeli hitchhikers

A Palestinian attacker rammed his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing at a hitchhiking station in the West Bank, wounding four of them before he was shot dead by paramilitary officers, Israeli police said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said two...

November 8, 2015| PA Media
Times of Malta

Romanian nightclub fire death toll rises to 44

Three more victims of the Romanian nightclub fire have died, bringing the total death toll from the fire to 44. The medical director of the state burns hospital, Cristian Nitescu said a man succumbed to his injuries late on Saturday. Mediafax news...

November 8, 2015| PA Media

Russia sends inspectors to Egypt to probe airport security

Russia has sent the first of three teams of inspectors to Egypt to examine security conditions at airports there following the Metrojet plane crash which killed all 224 on board . Deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich's announcement follows Russia's...

November 8, 2015| PA Media
Times of Malta

John Lennon's guitar sells for $2.4m

An acoustic guitar that John Lennon used to record and write Love Me Do, I Want to Hold Your Hand and other songs by The Beatles has sold for $2.4 million at auction. Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, said the Gibson J-160E guitar was...

November 8, 2015| PA Media

Hardships remain for Philippines 2 years after Haiyan

Residents in the Philippines struggle to recover two years on after it was struck by Typhoon Haiyan. Julie Noce reports.

November 8, 2015| Reuters
Times of Malta

China-Taiwan historic talks

China and Taiwan must not let proponents of Taiwan’s independence split them, China’s President Xi Jinping told Taiwan’s President yesterday at the first meeting between leaders of the two sides since China’s civil war ended in 1949. Ma Ying-jeou,...

November 7, 2015| Reuters