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Malta votes on controversial spring bird hunt



Malta voted Saturday in a referendum that could end the controversial tradition of spring hunting in which birds migrating across the Mediterranean are killed before they can breed. Voter Alex Mifsud, a 33-year old lawyer, condemned the shoot as "a horrible hobby," telling AFP outside a polling station that "we are talking about hunters who go out and kill anything they see flying. The European ...