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Sergey Lavrov's spokesperson Maria Zakharova was heading to Malta to attend an OSCE ministerial summit.
Then three EU member states intervened.
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Facebook is penalising @TheTimesofMalta page for sharing news about Gaza and Lebanon, and there's nothing we can do about it.
It's gotten so bad, we've been forced to self-censor.
Bertrand Borg retweeted
So, Google is killing its cache (which was amazingly useful), and replacing it with a third-party solution of linking to the Internet Archive. I really hope the Internet Archive is being paid -- and paid a lot -- for this.
We know many people, including those in the research community, value seeing previous versions of webpages when available. That’s why beginning today, we're adding links to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to our "About this result" panel, to give people quick context and make this helpful information easily accessible through Search.
To access archive links, click on the three dots next to a search result. In the window that appears, click on the "More about this page" button, then look for the "See previous versions on Internet Archive's Wayback Machine" link.
It will take a day or so for this to fully roll out and be available for those searching in 40 different languages. Learn more about how "About this result" works and other information it offers here: support.google.com/websearch…
They promised state-of-the-art healthcare. But they were the only winners.
This is how the Vitals-Steward deal for Malta hospitals moved public money into private pockets.
bit.ly/3R2ox85
Shaukat Ali was technically just a 'senior consultant' to the company running three public hospitals in Malta.
But a €100k-a-month contract and his many other financial ties to the Vitals-Steward concession suggest he was a bit more than that.
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The original Maltese version is just as bad
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The national broadcaster manages to cobble together an entire article without any proper context about the hospitals inquiry
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Perhaps the most intriguing part of this story is the Education Ministry's justification of this being in 'the public interest'.
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Bertrand Borg retweeted
Mould on walls. Patient records on desks.
St Luke's Hospital was meant to be turned into a 'state of the art' facility. Instead, it lies abandoned.
Read more about our probe with @OCCRP and @TheShiftNews into the hospitals deal
👉 bit.ly/3BzhWd6
Bertrand Borg retweeted
The hospitals deal, x-rayed.
Out on Wednesday morning, in collaboration with @OCCRP and @TheShiftNews
A key problem with Malta's existing FOI law: it costs the govt nothing to refuse requests using nonsense excuses.
Taxpayer-funded bodies that go out of their way to obscure information should face consequences for doing so.
Malta Film Commission ordered to hand over copies of invoices for David Walliams' hosting the awards night. Allocated budget for Malta Film Awards was €400,000, but Malta Film Week cost some €1.3 million & expenditure's not disclosed. /2
#transparency
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Bertrand Borg retweeted
Four years on and yet Daphne's voice grows ever louder.
Marking four years since they murdered journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia for shining a light on the truth.
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Why we could not accept Viktor Orbán’s advert bit.ly/3jx2C9c
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No wonder some are hoping to see @TheTimesofMalta shut down.
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At @TheTimesofMalta, editors are not involved in management decisions, and managers are not involved in editorial ones.
That's what sets us apart from other news organisations in #Malta.
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Tonight's international headlines about the arrest of @keithaschembri will be more damaging to Malta's reputation than any speech any politician will ever make