I have uploaded a video about the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania (also shown here in this post), which you can watch in our "Relax & Enjoy: Vistas" group here: zafoid.com/group/303
Wishing everyone a blessed Good Friday!
Joseph Gatt
Administrator
Very high American tariffs on Chinese goods are nothing new. President Biden had already gone that route in May 2024, as did President Trump in his first presidential term. President Biden had also approved even more heightened tariffs in September 2024 (see www.utilitydive.com/news/joe-biden-china-tariff-hikes-ev-battery-semiconductor-final/727014/).
A woman and her daughter arrived in Malta in 2014, and requested refugee status. They had left their home in the Donetsk region in Ukraine, which has just been invaded by Russia, and has been in a state of war even since. However in June 2021, they were informed that their temporary protection will be removed. After appealing to the courts, Judge Toni Abela ordered that the woman and her minor daughter are once again be given temporary humanitarian protection, and that this shall remain in force until the Ukraine situation is stable and not dangerous for them.
Mil-lum jibda l-istaฤกun tal-lampuki!
L-istampa turi d-dgฤงajjes tas-sajd irmiฤกฤกati fil-Port tal-Imฤกarr fโGฤงawdex, lesti biex isalpaw, bil-Knisja tal-Madonna taโ Lourdes fl-isfond fuq l-gฤงolja fuq nett.
Originally built by the Order of St John as a gunpowder store in circa 1665, by the 1700's the site became Malta's first home for the elderly. Then, under British rule, the site also served as as a female prison, as well as a refuge for illegitimate and stray girls. It remained a state multipurpose institution till 1892.
The Ospizio was originally well decorated, with a fountain and an accompanying artistic statue (which at some point simply disappeared overnight) embellishing the far wall of the Ospizio's open space.
One of the more famous prisoners held at the Ospizio was Margaret Semini, the Maltese wife of Englishman George Dalzel, who was imprisoned for adultery in 1840. Historian Giovanni Bonello writes that "We do not know how long Dalzel paid for his wife to remain in prison. If his was a vindictive disregard of money, he could have left her there for her whole lifetime." Malta eventually decriminalised adultery in 1972.
Night sky photos with vibrant blues, purples, oranges, and pinks are invariably the product of digital enhancement. Nowadays a lot of photographers like to crank up the colour saturation of their Milky Way images, using PhotoShop or similar software, to the maximal extent possible. In reality however, the Milky Way always appears to the naked eye in monochromatic shades of black to white.
According to the latest 2021 Maltese Census, a whopping 42.8% of men in Malta are single, while among women only 34.5% are partnerless.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna makes international headlines after he came out in favour of relaxing the Catholic Church's millenium old celibate requirement for priests, in an interview with The Times of Malta journalist Mark Laurence Zammit.
After Russia vetoed Estonia's bid for the OSCE presidency, Malta is set to take over the role of the European security grouping's rotating chairmanship.
"One day the war in Ukraine will end and Russia and the West will need to reduce tensions, negotiate new arms control agreements and put European security architecture back together," Jamie Shea, a senior fellow at the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe, said: "The OSCE will come back as the forum where this bridge building will need to take place."
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