Get ready for a sunny weekend ahead as temperatures drop slightly

Jul 13 2022

This weekend you’ll be able to enjoy some Maltese beaches without worrying about any excessive temperatures.

That being said, the drop in the scorching heat will still be minimal as we’ll be experiencing temperatures set at around 37 degrees Celsius. But that is far removed from the previous 40°C we saw during the brutal heat waves.

The weekend will kick off with a far gentler 33°C on Friday, with a possible cloud here and there. It will climb up just one degree by Saturday, maintaining a UV index of 10. Temperatures are then set to jump to 37°C for the remainder of the week.

The lowest temperatures will be settling at around 23°C, maintaining some rather hot and electrically demanding nighttime hours. The drop in temperatures might be a bit of a respite for many, but they are still some of the highest we’ve seen so far.

Therefore, caution is, as always, advised. Apply sun screen often – even when not at the beach. Seek out the shade and make sure you’re chugging as much water as possible to stay hydrated.

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Elon Musk sued by Twitter for backing out of $44 billion deal

Jul 13 2022

Twitter launched a massive lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk after the billionaire decided to pull out of his $44 billion purchase deal.

This comes after Musk announced last week that he planned to pull out of the massive deal due to being ‘misled’ about Twitter’s number of bots and fake accounts.

Lawyers acting for the SpaceX CEO said that Twitter made ‘false and misleading representations upon which Mr Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement.’

However, this doesn’t appear to be good enough grounds for pulling out of the deal and the lawsuit, launched on the 12th of July, says the tech billionaire needs to honour his agreement.

‘Musk entered into a binding merger agreement with Twitter, promising to use his best efforts to get the deal done’ reported The Guardian. ‘Now, less than three months later, Musk refuses to honour his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests’.

The lawsuit also blasted Musk’s expectations to put Twitter in a ‘public spectacle’ as he ‘apparently believes that he is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value and walk away.’

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14 Nights Missing – relative of Charlie Fino issue plea to not forget case

Jul 13 2022

Taking to social media, a close relative of Charlie Fino, an 83-year-old dementia patient who resided at St Vincent De Paul who went missing on the 28th of June, issued a statement to not forget the case.

After Charlie walked out of an unattended St Vincent De Paul care home at around 3am, the search was on albeit to no avail. Audrey Fino took to Facebook to state:

‘Please continue to keep a look out for him! Why is he still not found? Have all the resources needed to track him down been assigned to the police and others tasked with search and rescue?

Is the case still a priority, as it should be?’

‘Charlie FINO must be found! He is a beloved father, brother, uncle, brother-in-law, friend. There is no room for (more) failures, errors and complacency!’

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Lufthansa aircraft from Malta lands in Palermo due to emergency

Jul 13 2022

A Lufthansa aircraft which departed Malta on Tuesday night had to conduct an emergency landing in Palermo due to a discrepancy in one of the engines.

The flight departed the Luqa airport on Tuesday evening being Frankfurt bound. However, the pilots diverted to Palermo’s Falcone & Borsellino Airport in Sicily just after a few minutes.

Pilots requested the emergency landing after an unspecified discrepancy was identified in one of the aircraft’s two engines. Flight LH1311 landed in Palermo at 2010hrs, and no incidents or critical issues among the passengers were reported.

Passengers were flown to their destination via a replacement aircraft. The incident was also reported in the Sicilian regional newspaper La Sicilia.

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