Malta

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Flag of Malta, via Wikimedia Commons.

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This is a April 2014 image of the landmark the Azure Window located just off Malta. The natural rock arch jutting off the Maltese island of Gozo, has collapsed into the sea during a storm. Malta’s prime minister called the loss on Wednesday March 8, 2017, of the iconic limestone formation “heartbreaking.” No one was injured by the fallen arch, which was also a TV and film backdrop.(Caroline Hodgson via AP)

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A Maltese army soldier stands in front of the main gate of the the Auberge de Castille palace, Premier's office, on the eve of an EU Summit, in Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. 27 European heads of state will meet in Malta on Friday for an informal summit to discuss migration and the future of the EU. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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A Maltese army soldier stands in front of the main gate of the the Auberge de Castille palace, Premier's office, on the eve of an EU Summit, in Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. 27 European heads of state will meet in Malta on Friday for an informal summit to discuss migration and the future of the EU. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Faithful pray in St. John Cathedral in downtown Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. After a quarter-century as Malta's governing party, the conservative Nationalist Party scrambled to line up a transgender young man as a candidate for next year's Parliamentary elections in hopes of reversing a stinging, landslide 2013 loss to its socialist archrivals who came to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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An image of Jesus Christ is displayed on a wall in downtown Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Two months ago, Malta became the first European nation to ban gay conversion therapy, establishing fines of up to 10,000 euros and jail terms up to one year for offenders. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Faithful pray in St. John Cathedral in downtown Valletta, Malta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. After a quarter-century as Malta's governing party, the conservative Nationalist Party scrambled to line up a transgender young man as a candidate for next year's Parliamentary elections in hopes of reversing a stinging, landslide 2013 loss to its socialist archrivals who came to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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An Afriqiyah Airways plane stands on the tarmac at Malta's Luqa International airport as passengers depart, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Hijackers diverted the Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said. (TVM via AP)

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An Afriqiyah Airways plane stands on the tarmac at Malta's Luqa International airport as passengers depart, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Hijackers diverted the Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said. (TVM via AP)

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FILE - This Feb. 5, 2013 file photo shows then Knights of Malta health minister, Albrecht von Boeselager speaking at a press conference in Rome on the occasion of the order's 900th birthday. On Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, Pope Francis named a high-powered commission of inquiry to investigate a scandal involving von Boeselager who was forcibly removed as grand chancellor this month after the Order of Malta said "an extremely grave and untenable situation" came to light regarding his tenure as the order's health minister. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

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FILE - In this April 25, 2012, file photo, a herd of bison move through land controlled by the American Prairie Reserve south of Malta, Mont. Backers of the sprawling Montana wildlife reserve are seeking federal approval to graze plains bison on a second major piece of property, to keep up with their private herd’s growing need for space. The long-term goal of the reserve launched in 2001 is to stitch together more than 3 million acres of public and private land into the largest wildlife reserve in the lower 48 states(AP Photo/Matt Brown, File)