Malta Independent - 2016-09-24

• Government takes legal action on Manoel Island
• Unemployme­nt in August down by 1,653 from a year before
• Traffic police and local wardens join forces for Monday’s back-to-school traffic chaos
• Chamber, MEA, call for simpler procedures for employment, residency of foreign workers
• PM focuses on migration, need for peace in the Mediterran­ean region in UN speech
• SME deal for Maltese businesses
• Sliema Local Council, eNGOs file appeals against Townsquare project
• Soldier who was injured in Ghaxaq fireworks blast discharged from hospital
• PN promises to reverse social housing rent hike, says it wants social justice
• “Adequate regulation needed to ensure high standard of first aid courses” – MEP Miriam Dalli
• Environmen­tal justice only restored when fish farms’ illegal operations truly stop - AD
• Truth as a force of change
• The light railway option
• Meet our Carmen – a no-compromise cast for Aurora’s 40th special season
• Heritage Malta launches Student Membership Scheme, over 4,000 applicatio­ns received
• Largest-ever Decorative Fair in Battersea this Autumn
• Journalist ‘suspended for her accessorie­s’
• FBI considers investigat­ion over Brad Pitt plane claim
• Charlotte shooting sparks days of protests over police violence
• New strikes in Aleppo as Syria announces offensive
• Yahoo ‘state’ hackers stole data from 500 million users
• Barbra Streisand teaches Siri a lesson
• Imelda Staunton to star in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Monty Python’s Terry Jones diagnosed with dementia
• Europe down on sale of shares
• Medical research supported by Fundacion MAPFRE provides encouragin­g results
• HOROSCOPE
• 30 countries taking part in World Kata championsh­ips in Malta next month
• Malta at world amateur team championsh­ips
• Classified­s
• William Chetcuti wins Independen­ce Day trophy in Double Trap event
• David Bugeja, Alex Felice Pace named Basketball Players of the Year
• Weekend sports fixtures
• Allegri considers benching out-of-form Paulo Dybala
• No Messi as Barcelona faces Gijon, Real away to Las Palmas
• Mourinho looks to get over first wobble of Man United reign
• Dortmund clinch 3-1 win over Freiburg
• Radwanska overpowers Puig, Muguruza falls short in Tokyo
• Italy: Another Olympic bid unlikely for 20 years
• Rabat block Senglea’s triumphant march
• Madrid court re-opens case against Neymar for Barcelona transfer

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