Новости за 03.10.2021

A cyclist had to carry his bicycle through the Kappara to San Ġwann subway on Sunday when he found that this had been strewn all over with glass. In a post on Facebook, James Craig Wightman wrote: “I had to carry the bike through. Imagine carrying a pedelec with panniers stuffed with work things or your kid wearing flip flops taking a shortcut.” Wightman said this was the brand new subway near Zammit Clapp Hospital under Regional Road.

A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and their son, and all five others aboard, Italian media reported.  The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan's Linate airport shortly after 1pm (1100 GMT) headed for Olbia in the north of the Italian island of Sardinia. It crashed just a few minutes later in San Donato Milanese, a town southeast of Milan, according to aviation agency ANSV, which has opened an investigation. Читать дальше...

More than a dozen heads of state and government, including the King of Jordan and the Czech prime minister, have hidden millions in offshore tax havens, according to an investigation published Sunday by the ICIJ media consortium. The so-called Pandora Papers investigation - involving some 600 journalists from media including Times of Malta, The Washington Post, the BBC and The Guardian - is based on the leak of some 11.9 million documents from 14 financial services companies around the world.... Читать дальше...

Spanish 17-year-old Izan Guevara won a crash-marred Moto 3 event at the Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday after a double red-flagged race at a circuit already branded “dangerous” earlier in the weekend.  A first red flag was waved after seven laps of the scheduled 17 following a crash by Filip Salac on a KTM.  Conscious, the Czech rider was taken to the medical centre for examination.  The race restarted before being stopped a second time after two more laps following a huge multi-rider accident... Читать дальше...

Julian Nagelsmann suffered his first defeat as Bayern Munich coach on Sunday as Eintracht Frankfurt snatched a dramatic, smash-and-grab 2-1 away win with a late winner from Filip Kostic. Kostic struck on the counter-attack seven minutes from time to hand Frankfurt their first win in Munich for more than two decades and condemn Bayern to their first defeat of the season. Despite dominating Frankfurt for much of the game, Bayern succumbed to their first league home defeat since 2019, and now sit... Читать дальше...

Ken Block has made a name for himself as a rally and rallycross driver since 2005. However, the 53-year-old is most famous worldwide for his elaborately produced videos in which he drives high-performance vehicles to the limit at iconic locations.  The partnership with Audi closes a circle for Ken Block: “Audi is the brand that ignited my passion for motorsport. I am extremely excited to start this new chapter. Together, we will develop innovative projects and push the boundaries of electric... Читать дальше...

Manchester City twice came from behind to prevent Liverpool moving back to the top of the Premier League in a pulsating 2-2 draw at Anfield on Sunday. Liverpool weathered a City storm in the first-half and hit the English champions with a sucker punch when Sadio Mane opened the scoring just before the hour mark. Phil Foden levelled before Mohamed Salah looked to have won the game with a moment of individual brilliance as he jinked around four defenders before firing past Ederson. Continue reading this article on Sports Desk. Читать дальше...

A mud-spattered Sonny Colbrelli won a three-way cat-and-mouse struggle to claim victory in the epic Paris-Roubaix bike race in dreadful conditions on Sunday. After a 258km slog over cobbles and mud, the Italian and European champion Colbrelli sped into the Roubaix velodrome alongside Florian Vermeersch and hot-favourite Mathieu van der Poel before edging them both right on the line. Plucky 22-year-old Vermeersch launched the sprint late, but Colbrelli, a specialist in the discipline, overtook the Belgian on the line. Читать дальше...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday refused to return Britain to its "broken" pre-Brexit economy, even as the country confronts a supply chain crisis made worse by its EU divorce. In a bullish conference message to the Tory faithful gathered in Manchester, northwest England, Johnson vowed to forge ahead with his post-Covid recovery plan to "level up" growth, and tackle priorities from infrastructure to climate change. The government has sought to blame the global health crisis for an exodus... Читать дальше...

The Pandora Papers is a leak of millions of confidential documents exposing 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and a worldwide line-up of fugitives and con artists. A global team of journalists led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists spent more than a year structuring, researching and analysing the more than 11.9 million records in the Pandora Papers leak. This involved making sense of a 2.94 terabyte data... Читать дальше...

John Dalli owned an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands which he never disclosed in his obligatory asset filings, an investigation by Times of Malta and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) can reveal.   Proof of Dalli’s ownership of the shell company emerges from a new document trove known as the Pandora Papers, covering 11.9 million confidential records leaked from 14 different corporate service providers across the globe.   ICIJ director Gerard Ryle explains the significance of the Pandora Papers. Читать дальше...

The 28th meeting of the season, which was held yesterday afternoon at the Marsa Racetrack, heralded the start of the BOV Tazza l-Kbira competition for class Premier trotters. Six heats were organised on a long distance of 2,640m, from which 24 trotters made it to the semi-final stage.  In the first heat, Antoine Du Bourg (Redent Magro) sealed its fourth win of the season after leading all the way during the long distance. Baron De Majuag (Alessandro Grech) took the lead with a lap to go in the second heat. Читать дальше...

The Attorney General has filed a fresh request to extradite a man believed to have run a $50 million racket defrauding the US Navy.  Frank Rafaraci, a 68-year-old Italian-American national, is wanted by the District Court of Columbia in the US over a raft of charges, including conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.  He has been in and out of court these past few days as the authorities’ attempts to have him handed over to the US have been hamstrung. Читать дальше...

The Malta Institute of Accountants set the ball rolling about corporate sustainability reporting with the Biennial Conference held on September 22.  The event attracted accountancy and auditing professionals, as well as specialists in other key business areas, to learn about a new framework proposed by the European Commission that will standardise non-financial reporting for a section of the private sector. The theme of the conference, ‘A New Mindset – Reduce. Reuse. Report’, set the tone for... Читать дальше...

The €5 million rehabilitation project of the notarial archives, which will see the preservation of more than 20,000 notarial volumes, is in its final stages.  Throughout the past few years, the archives, in Valletta, have started to digitalise the massive collection of volumes. The preservation of the historical volumes will improve accessibility for researchers and the public.  The project is co-financed - to the tune of €4 million, by the European Regional Development Fund. Visiting the site... Читать дальше...

Sweeping raids in Libya targeting mostly irregular migrants left at least one person dead, 15 wounded and 4,000 in detention, the UN said, stressing that authorities must respect human rights. Libyan authorities had labelled as an anti-drug operation the raids on houses and makeshift shelters in Gargaresh, a poor suburb of the capital Tripoli, on Friday and Saturday. The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said Libyan security forces had opened fire during the raids and that "one migrant was killed and at least 15 others injured... Читать дальше...

Konrad Mizzi has been summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee that is scrutinising the Electrogas power station contract. The former energy minister is being asked to testify about the project on Wednesday as part of an investigation by the public accounts committee.  Mizzi was the protagonist for the 2013 project, which was a key campaign promise for the Labour Party.  The deal has since been at the centre of corruption claims and has even been identified in court proceedings as a... Читать дальше...

Paris Saint-Germain suffered their first defeat of the Ligue 1 season on Sunday after losing 2-0 at Rennes, putting an end to their perfect start following eight consecutive wins. Lionel Messi smacked the crossbar with a free-kick in the first half at Roazhon Park and Gaetan Laborde volleyed Rennes ahead just before the break with his league-best sixth goal this term. Flavien Tait struck less than 20 seconds after half-time as Rennes doubled their lead with Kylian Mbappe seeing a goal ruled out... Читать дальше...

The blockade of Malta between 1798 and 1800 has been covered extensively from the perspective of the landward activities: artillery batteries have been depicted and located; manoeuvres, attacks and casualties discussed in detail. The seaward activities, however, seem to have been ignored, or at best glossed over – they deserve greater attention. This article takes a look at the blockade from the perspective of one of the Royal Navy captains who commanded a frigate that took part in the blockade. Читать дальше...

Marsovin’s Grand Maître 2019, ‘Annata Fra Marc’Antonio Zondadari’ is to be released on Tuesday, October 5. It will be the 22nd vintage of the prized flagship wine produced by the Maltese premium winery. The wine is produced by special appointment to the Maltese Association Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Each vintage is dedicated to a different grand master in chronological order, the first one being Philippe Villiers de L’Isle Adam for the 1998 vintage. Grand Maître is produced from grapes... Читать дальше...

Bologna gave coach Sinisa Mihajlovic room to breath on Sunday with a comfortable 3-0 Serie A win over Lazio which ended a worrying run of results. Mihajlovic’s position on the Bologna bench had been under discussion ahead of the visit of their Roman opponents after three matches without a win which included shipping six goals at Inter Milan and last weekend’s miserable defeat to Empoli. However two quick early goals from Musa Barrow and Arthur Theate gave the hosts an advantage that Lazio, who were without star striker Ciro Immobile... Читать дальше...

One child has died in flash flooding while flights and schools have been suspended as tropical Cyclone Shaheen bears down on Oman, authorities said Sunday. Another person was also reported missing in the flash floods in Al Amarat in Muscat province, Oman's National Committee for Emergency Management said.  Neighbouring United Arab Emirates said it was on "high alert". The storm, with wind speeds of up to 139 kilometres an hour, was 65 kilometres from Muscat and expected to hit Oman's northern coast between 6 and 10pm (1400-1800 GMT). Читать дальше...

Maltese feature film Luzzu continues to wow international viewers winning the grand prize in the International Feature Competition at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan.  The 18th edition of the Japenese International festival received 1,084 submissions from 104 counties and regions. The festival took place online between September 25 and Sunday, when the Grand Prize was announced.  Established in 2004, Skip City International D-Cinema Festival focuses on both international and Japanese films. Читать дальше...

Russell Mifsud, gaming director at KPMG Malta, has been listed in the ‘Emerging Leaders of Gaming (ELG) 40 Under 40’.  The ELG programme recognises men and women in the global gaming industry, under the age of 40, who embody leadership roles and have contributed above and beyond expectations to their organisations and are already making significant impacts on the gaming, entertainment, leisure and hospitality industries.   Russell Mifsud Commenting on this achievement, Russell said: “I am delighted... Читать дальше...

French business magnate, actor and former politician Bernard Tapie, whose swagger and made-for-headlines career made him one of the country’s best-known celebrities, died Sunday after a four-year battle with stomach cancer. He was 78. “Dominique Tapie and his family have the immense sadness to announce the death of her husband and their father, Bernard Tapie, this Sunday,” they said in a statement to La Provence newspaper in Marseille, in which Tapie was a majority stakeholder. “He left peacefully... Читать дальше...