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Brasile
Vassouras: History and Tradition in Rio’s “Little Princess of Coffee”
By Beatriz Miranda, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – At one point Rio’s countryside played a major role in Brazil’s economy, and Vassouras is the best example for that: the so-called “Barons’ city” used to be one of the most important coffee producers in Brazil in the nineteenth century. ...
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Regno Unito
Brexit clouds gather ahead of Tory conference
Tory tensions over Brexit have broken into the open as the party gathers for a crunch conference in Manchester. Britain's EU divorce deal and the scope of any post-withdrawal transition period looks set to dominate the Conservative gathering. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson caused waves on the eve of the conference as he ...
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Malta
Councillors want action against car hire firm ‘occupying’ public car park
Two Gudja councillors are up in arms over what they claim is an illegal occupation of public parking spots by a rental car company. In a stern letter to Transport Malta, councillors Mark Anthony Sammut and Stefan Caruana called on the authority to clamp down on the abuse. The letter, published by ...
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Malta
Malta's credit rating raised... again
Credit agency Standard & Poor's has raised its classification of Malta's economy from stable to positive, a decision lauded by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna. The move comes a year after S&P improved Malta's rating from BBB+ to A-. The agency is forecasting that over the next three years Malta's economy will maintain ...
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Irlanda
Thousands demand changes to Ireland's strict abortion laws
Thousands of people are marching through Dublin demanding change to Ireland's strict abortion laws. The March for Choice is the first major demonstration since the Government set an indicative timescale of early summer 2018 for a referendum on the section of the state's constitution that ensures tight legal restrictions on terminations. Campaigners ...
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Women athletes featured 10 times less than men on sports sites
Men feature as much as 10 times more than their female peers in sports media coverage, according to the preliminary findings of a European project. Spread over two years until the end of next year, Women in Sports aims to increase awareness about insufficient and inappropriate coverage of women’s sport and ...
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Malta
Tender for Gozo port park-and-ride service
The government has paved the way for the introduction of a park-and-ride service for the Mġarr, Gozo port. The plan to provide the service during peak hours was one of the first initiatives undertaken by the new Gozo ministry, it said in a statement. Parking shortages were posing a problem for Gozitan ...
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Regno Unito
Boris Johnson wants maximum two-year Brexit transition
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said a transition period from the European Union after Britain's exit from the bloc in March 2019 must not last more than two years. In an interview with The Sun newspaper on Saturday, on the eve of the governing Conservative Party's annual conference, Johnson detailed ...
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Malta
Edward Scicluna calls PN pre-budget document negative; expects surplus by end of year
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has labelled the PN pre-budget document negative in this morning's press conference, whilst also saying that he can almost guarantee a surplus by the end of the year.Directly remarking on Mario de Marco's evaluation, which spoke about the problem of poverty said to be "growing in ...
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Malta
TMID Editorial: Rental market - Real social conscience over profit and gain
The Malta Developer Association's 'social conscience' proposals have immediately come under fire and this came as no surprise.In a meeting with Parliamentary Secretary Roderick Galdes, who is responsible for social housing, MDA put forward a number of proposals which, the association said, are aimed at making more affordable housing available ...