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The men in Malta Friday hijacked a Libyan airliner, had no real weapons. This appears according to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of Malta in the first trials.

The hijacking in Malta is over. The hostage-takers surrender.

The annual nativity scene in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican is dominated by the refugees this year. The nativity scene is next to life-sized figures of Joseph and Mary, to see the three kings and an angel a brightly colored fishing boat.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte is confident that Malta will implement earlier agreements as it takes over the EU presidency from Slovakia on 1 January. Rutte said Friday in Malta, where the prime ministers of the three countries discussed the agenda for the coming period.

The Russian flotilla via the Mediterranean is on its way to the coast of Syria, has nowhere to take fuel. The government of Malta decided to come fill the Russians not to grant permission.

A small plane crashed shortly after takeoff this morning down at the airport in Malta. Probably lost their five cities people dead.

"The candidate of Malta to the European Court on Tuesday voted by the European Parliament. Leo Brincat was until recently a member of the Maltese Government and is therefore in accordance with a parliamentary majority not independent enough for the Court."

European leaders early next year hold an informal meeting in Malta. Just as later this week in Bratislava they have especially about how the European Union should look like after the departure of the British.

"Two German aid workers get into the Mediterranean sea are refugees from Saturday arrested by the Libyan coastguard. That made the guard known on the grounds that feed the two without permission in Libyan waters."

have been arrested in Europe 75 suspects in a police operation against child pornography on the Internet. This made the European Police Office, Europol and the Italian police on Tuesday.

EU President Donald Tusk wants to have all spoken of the 27 political leaders before they meet next month in Bratislava. EU leaders consider on September 16 in the Slovak capital on the future of the EU without the UK and discuss possible reforms.

The Red Cross has 24 hours more than three hundred migrants rescued in the Mediterranean. Among the people who were picked up were children.

English remains an official language in the EU institutions. That the Irish Government in a statement.

Twelve EU Member States have not yet contributed to the fund set up to improve the situation and refugees in Turkish camps. Said Wednesday an initial assessment of the progress of the migration pact that the EU concluded with Turkey to the migration issue to cope.

The EU is wary that the flow of migrants coming from Libya to Europe swells again. Nearly a half million displaced people in Libya can cross over to Europe, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini warned in a letter to the European countries that Reuters holds.

Professor Tony Dyson, the British who built the famous robot R2-D2 from the Star Wars movie, is at the age of 68 at his home in Malta deceased. The police discovered his body after a worried phone call from a neighbor.

The European Union has agreed that the principality of Monaco as of 2018 shares the bank details of foreign account holders in the country where the account holder's nationality. The European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, on Monday here in Monaco an agreement signed.

The Public Prosecutor in Utrecht hunt accomplices of a bitcoinbende, suspected of laundering millions of euros to digital money (bitcoins). Three suspects are currently facing the court.

The number of refugees this year, the EU agreed this week passed the one million. That the International Organization for Migration (IOM) stated Tuesday.

The heirs of Margaret Thatcher have done last night more than excellent business. Virtually all more than 150 dresses, jewelry, written speeches and other belongings of Britain's only female prime minister who yesterday went under the hammer at Christie's beat about the head. Eventually yield a sloppy 4.5 million.

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya puts so many visits that his subjects mocked him as a foreign head of state calling Kenya every now and then. The agenda of the president in recent days : a summit in South Africa, the climate conference in Paris and a Commonwealth conference in Malta. In a few days he is expected in Rwanda.

Turkey and the European Union have agreed on behind the scenes which are transferred between 400,000 and 500,000 Syrian refugees from Turkey to EU countries. This suggested Wednesday the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a speech in Budapest.

At the summit meeting on migration between Europe and Africa continents coming week should make concrete commitments to tackle the problem with the influx of refugees. The EU aims include better border security and cooperation on the return of asylum seekers to their own country. Africa expects more financial support and more opportunities for legal migration.

The European Union must do everything we can to keep the Schengen area of passport-free travel intact. This is only possible through good management of Europe 's external borders. That said EU Minister Donald Tusk Tuesday.

The Dutch director of the European asylum agency EASO get on . Rob Visser starts on November 1 as secretary to the Council of State in The Hague. He led the Malta -based EASO since February 2011 .