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Malta
Today Top News
 Higher
turnout in local councils elections favours Labour party
In what is expected to be one of the last council elections
before the general election, indicators pointed late last night
to a slight increase in Labour Party votes.
There was an overall increase of 3% over the global vote registered
in 1999, up from 69% to 72%.
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Italian
crime link to Malta
In October 2000 Francesco Cardella, founder of the drug rehabilitation
community called Saman, was found guilty by the courts in Trapani
Sicily of misappropriating funds intended for his organisation.
He was handed down a sentence of seven years imprisonment and asked
to pay back considerable amounts of money to Saman and the Provincial
Region of Trapani.
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Labour parliamentarian
in favour of hunting at all times
The closed season should be removed from local hunting laws, Labour
MP Dr Adrian Vassallo told a MaltaToday journalist earlier this
week. Dr Vassallo, who until recently was himself a keen hunter,
stated that the hunting open season should not be determined by
legislation but should be left up to Mother Nature. READ
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Lampedusa
tragedy raises ire of consumers’ union
Italian search and rescue authorities have lost all hope of finding
any survivors involved in the drowning of a seven-metre vessel carrying
tens of illegal immigrants as bad weather hampered the operations
while the Italian media hammered away at the conduct of one of the
SAR vessels. READ
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