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Haley Bugeja named Atlas Youth Athlete of the month

Nov 24 2020 Share

Football starlet Haley Bugeja continues to make the headlines as she receives the title of ‘Atlas Youth Athlete of the Month’ for October 2020. Bugeja has made quite a name for herself during her time at US Sassuolo in the Italian Serie A Femminile.

The 16-year-old is expected to join Malta’s national team for the UEFA Women’s EURO Qualifiers for two games against Georgia and Israel on the 26th of November and 1st December respectively.

We wish Haley the best of luck in her future endeavours and thank her for being one of the people who are putting Malta on the map! 

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133 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 107 recoveries

67 COVID-19 cases registered overnight with 323 recoveries
Nov 24 2020 Share

Malta has registered 133 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours from 2,664 swab tests, while 107 patients have recovered. This information was announced by the official Facebook page of Malta’s Ministry for Health.

From yesterday’s cases; 16 cases were family members of previously known cases, 5 cases were contact of positive work colleagues, 3 cases were direct contacts with other positive cases and 1 case was from social gatherings with other positive cases and 4 cases were imported.

To date, Malta has registered 9,137 COVID-19 cases in total, of which: 6,938 have recovered, 117 died and 2,082 are still active.

20-year-old woman arrested in huge Marsa drug bust

Nov 24 2020 Share

€4,000 worth of cocaine, crack cocaine and hash were found in Marsa garage in a seizure conducted by the Special Intervention Unit of Malta’s Police Force.

The squads seized the garage which they had been monitoring for days to find 15 sachets of crack cocaine, 63 sachets of heroin, 110 sachets of cocaine, all ready for sale.

A 20-year-old girl was arrested and charged for drug trafficking with Magistrate Rachel Montebello leading an inquiry.

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Elon Musk becomes second-richest person in the world

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Tech entrepreneur and Tesla boss Elon Musk has become the second richest person in the world as he is valued at $127.9 billion.

Musk beat Microsoft founder Bill Gates to take the number 2 spot coming after Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who currently holds a whopping net worth of $182 billion.

Musk’s rise in worth is attributed to the 6.585 increase in Tesla shares, accounting to a $7.2 billion increase.

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