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MATTHEW
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Home Home Affairs Minister Byron Affairs Minister Byron
Camilleri Camilleri on drug heist at on drug heist at AFM AFM
compound and the compound and the EU's EU's push for push for
higher defence spending higher defence spending
INTERVIEW MT2
maltatoday
381 different
archaeological
features discovered
across Malta in 2024
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Decoding Robert
Abela's push
for European
convention reform
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Artefacts Human rights
Five pregnancies terminated under
Malta's amended abortion laws
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CAR licence holders will be able to surrender their licence
for five years in exchange for a €25,000 cash grant spread
across five years within the next three months.
This was announced as transport minister Chris Bonett
unveiled a raft of initiatives aimed at reducing traffic and
changing the local culture of commuting.
In the next three months, Bonett also said that public
road marking and road cleansing services will no longer be
carried out during peak hours, as more public services were
earmarked for a change in time in the future.
Licence surrender
scheme among
upcoming traffic-
solving measures
€2.20
Transport minister Chris Bonett
FIVE abortions have been carried out
since the law was amended to allow the
termination of pregnancy when a wom-
an's life is at risk, the Health Ministry
confirmed.
Abortion remains illegal and punish-
able by prison but in 2024 parliament
approved changes that introduced the
limited exception.
In response to MaltaToday's inquiry
about the number of terminations per-
formed since the law change, a Health
Ministry spokesperson confirmed that
"[...] five incidents in total occurred
where the mother's life was at risk".
An army officer, part of the Maltese contingent taking part in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, being decorated for her
service. Malta's neutrality does not prevent the country from taking part in military missions that pursue "peace, security and social
progress". On the eve of Freedom Day, which commemorates the departure of the last British forces from Malta in 1979, we analyse
the neutrality clause in the Constitution. (Photo: AFM)
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CALLEJA
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