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Sufficient grounds to vote no
It is clear that Maltese civil law seeks to promote the stability, unity and indissolubility of the marriage bond. At no stage are provisions for divorce contemplated. While the law tends fundamentally towards indissolubility, provision for divorce as
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:17A
Kenya: Okemo, Gichuru Wanted
The orders were issued by the chief justice of the Island of Jersey last month. The two are facing 53 charges allegedly relating to commissions paid to them between 1999 and 2002. Okemo was the then minister for energy and later finance minister.
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:17A
EU plans for Consumer Rights Directive
With headlines in the local media taken over by the divorce debate, the war in Libya and the death of Osama bin Laden, there has been meagre focus on the recent approval by Parliament of a law setting up a new regulatory authority responsible for
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:16A
Ringleaders jailed for five years
The ringleaders of the gang on trial in the Europe-wide football betting scandal have been handed jail sentences of five-and-a-half years after the court in Bochum gave their verdict yesterday. The pair – Ante Sapina and his main accomplice Marijo
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:16A
IMF wants Greece to 'redouble' reform effort
The sternest IMF warning since a 110 billion euro EU/IMF bailout a year ago pulled the troubled euro zone member back from the brink of bankruptcy was delivered as European officials raised the possibility of a Greek debt restructuring.
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:15A
Airbus awaits ruling on subsidisation of A380 construction
The World Trade Organisation said it would publish a verdict by its appellate body at 11:30 am EDT, marking the latest chapter in a six-year transatlantic battle that has shattered the record for the time and cost spent on an international trade spat.
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:15A
Politics of antagonism will murder our democracy
The picture of a chief minister seeking justice from the president of India against the atrocities unleashed by a nominee of the Rashtrapati Bhawan defines the impending collapse of India's institutional framework. Last week, Karnataka Chief Minister
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:15A
Trigger rightly pulled
Regarding Tamar R. Birckhead's May 11 Point of View article, "A missed chance for justice in court," as a centrist-minded American even I shudder at the notion that the world's primary strategist and symbol behind anti-Americanism and mass murder
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:14A
SEALed the deal
You may have thought the May 11 column by Maureen Dowd ("Doing good by eliminating evil") and the same day's Point of View article by Tamar R. Birckhead ("A missed chance for justice in court") represented the two sides of the Osama bin Laden issue.
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:14A
Assyrian Aid Society Gains Consultative Status in Committee on Non
The other, Action Sensibilisation sur les Nouvelles Technologies de L'Information et de la Communication, promotes the use of information technology and communication to provide farmers with necessary knowledge tools. A number of applicants were also
Updated: 05/20/2011 02:14A
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