Donald Trump is purging career officials and surrounding himself with unqualified partisans

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Celebrities shower American Civil Liberties Union with money after Trump travel ban

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Motorist found partially responsible for fatally injuring Aldo Moro road jaywalker

Magistrate Bugeja observed that jurisprudence had established that a third party's contribution to a road accident needed to be the sole cause of the accident in order to neutralise the driver's responsibility.

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Italy police arrest four for smuggling arms to Iran, Libya

Three Italians and a Libyan national have been detained, accused of smuggling weapons including surface-to-air missiles and assault rifles into Iran and Libya between 2011 and 2015

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Italy applies for World Heritage status for prosecco-growing region as sales of the fizzy stuff boom

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Landlord declared a victim of 1980s corruption - awarded compensation in 'land grab' case

A man who in 1981 was robbed of massive plots of land in Fgura by a clique of 'businessmen' acting together with then Labour Minister Lorry Sant has been awarded €50,000 in moral compensation with the possibility that he would get a further €1 million in compensation after another court judgement. The case of Joseph Borg goes back to a few days before the 1981 general election when, in front of a public notary, he was forced through threats and violence to transfer his property – half of 23 plots in Fgura – to Piju Camilleri, at the time works manager at Mr Sant's ministry and described by the court as "a smokescreen for the late Labour minister". In 1989 he had instituted a court case to take back his property. The court had found in his favour and said that what had happened was part of the institutionalised corruption surrounding the Labour government of the 1980s and particularly the rampant systematic land grab corruption led by Mr Sant. Apart from Mr Camilleri, there were other collaborators, including Joe Pace and Victor Balzan. However, when Mr Borg and his company instituted a second court case in order to make the culprits pay, the court presided by the late Judge...

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Clashes in eastern Ukraine leave at least eight people dead

At least eight people have been killed as fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated. The fighting briefly trapped more than 200 coal miners underground, the warring sides reported. Rebels in Donetsk said an electricity sub-station was damaged in shelling, cutting power to the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk. The mine is notorious for its safety standards: 33 people were killed there in 2015 by a methane blast. With lifts not working, the miners had been trapped underground for several hours before local authorities found the backup generators outside the mine to get the elevators working. By midday today, at least 152 of 200 men had been able to get out. Separatist military spokesman Eduard Basurin denied reports that separatist shelling cut power lines and heating stations in Avdiivka, saying they had been damaged earlier. The artillery shelling, which appears to be the worst in many months, was concentrated around the government-controlled town of Avdiivka, home to a giant coking plant. Its director said that preparations were being made to stop production, something rarely done throughout the conflict that has claimed...

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