Robert Abela will be sworn in as Prime Minister of Malta in a ceremony later today, after he led the Labour Party to a third landslide victory over the weekend.The Labour Party romped to a victory of just over 39,000 votes, its third victory with aro...

The Labour Party is on course for another landslide victory, with Labour media predicting a 39,474 majority, as the counting of votes at the Naxxar counting hall continues.Prime Minister elect Robert Abela claimed victory and PN Leader Bernard Grech ...

Malta has voted for their preferred candidates, with the Labour Party romping to another historic electoral victory.The 65 candidates who have been elected – five in each district – have now been confirmed.This is not the full list of who...

A number of incumbent politicians will have to sweat things out over the course of the following week, as they will have to wait for a casual election to see if they will be returning to Parliament or not.There are other long-time MPs meanwhile who k...

There were no surprises at the Naxxar counting hall yesterday, except for a high level of absenteeism which, in itself, is a vote against the political parties.As amply predicted, the Labour Party secured a comfortable victory over the Nationalist Pa...

Eight people were hospitalised after being involved in a carcade crash in Marsa on Sunday afternoon.Police said in a statement that the accident happened at around 2pm in Triq Aldo Moro in Marsa.Preliminary investigations showed that the crash had ta...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the West of cowardice Sunday while another top official said Russia was trying to split the nation in two, like North and South Korea.Zelenskyy made an exasperated plea for fighter jets and tanks to hel...

At the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night, attendees expressed support for Ukraine by going silent for 30 seconds.A tribute that started with words from the Ukrainian-born Mila Kunis ended with the Academy Awards fading to black a...

Robert Abela will be sworn in as Prime Minister on Monday at 11 am.Abela led the Labour Party to a victory in the polls, with his party expected to have a landslide victory over the PN.PN Leader Bernard Grech conceded defeat earlier today.PL media is...

In his first comments after winning the 2022 general election, Prime Minister Robert Abela said that the outcome of the general election which resulted into a landslide victory for the PL by a margin of 30,000 votes or more, ‘will bring on a gr...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that it is his duty to continue to sustain the PN in the wake of their defeat in the general election.Addressing journalists at the Counting Hall in Naxxar, Grech said that a vacuum in the party would surely cause...

PN Deputy Leader Robert Arrigo has issued a plea on Twitter, saying 'please help us Roberta'.This comes in the wake of a predicted landslide defeat for the PN in the 2022 general elections.'Roberta' is most likely a reference to President of the EU P...

Prime Minister Robert Abela stated that although the Labour Party is projected to win the elections with a significant majority, “the PL is there to represent all voters and not just Labourites.”“Today Malta has won together, this s...

Labour Party supporters have taken to the streets and gathered around their headquarters in Mile End to celebrate the party’s third consecutive electoral win.Videos and pictures shot by The Malta Independent show the scenes outside the PL&rsquo...

After a movie year often light on crowds, the Academy Awards named an unabashed crowd-pleaser, the deaf family drama “CODA,” best picture Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a streaming service for the first time in a...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said Sunday that he will go before the structures of the Nationalist Party to be confirmed as party leader.This announcement came after reports indicated that the Labour Party is on course for another landslide victory...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Sunday that the “movement we gave birth to” is not only alive but is stronger than ever.In a post on Facebook, Muscat said that “what we did was not for political convenience but a political,...

Two races into the Formula One season and defending champion Max Verstappen is already going toe-to-toe with Charles Leclerc rather than veteran Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time F1 champion whose crown he took last year.Verstappen and Leclerc, both 24 ...

Despite an increase in the number of registered voters, fewer people cast their vote this year than in 2017.In 2017, there were 341,856 registered voters, compared to the 355,075 registered this time round.However, while in 2017 there were 314,696 pe...

The PN’s parliamentary benches may very well have a different look by the end of the weekend, with early indications showing that a number of the party’s new candidates are out-performing some of their more established colleagues.Sources ...

Malta’s green party ADPD will contest the result of its total votes in court next week, as the country’s electoral system does not guarantee a parliamentary seat despite its increased vote tally.ADPD chairperson Carmel Cacopardo addressed...

Independent candidate Arnold Cassola said that, until 5pm, he has obtained a record high percentage of votes, with a 2.02% in the 10th district, and a 2.11% in the 11th district.Speaking to journalists at the Naxxar Counting Hall, Cassola said that h...

An 81-year-old man has died while positive for Covid-19, as 353 new cases of the virus were reported by health authorities on Sunday.163 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases has increased to 4,053.82 patients ...

Three persons were injured following a fire accident which engulfed a car in Żejtun.The accident, which happened in Misraħ Karlu Diacono, Żejtun, was apparently caused by flares, which engulfed the Honda Accord. The persons injured inc...

A man was grievously injured in Saturday evening after he was held up by another man, who made off with the former’s personal belongings.The incident took place at 10pm in Floriana, the police said.The victim told officers at the Msida police s...

Malta yesterday went to the polls in a general election, which saw the turnout drop when compared to previous elections. According to figures released late last night by the Electoral Commission, the approximate turnout was 85.5%.This means that 303,...

The 2022 election campaign is over. The people have voted, and the counting process will begin this morning.We will likely have a clear idea of the outcome by late morning. The Labour Party was in the lead according to surveys throughout the entire c...

Malta’s already sizeable Parliament could get quite a bit more populated when the full process of this weekend’s general election comes to a close in the coming days and weeks.The reason for this is that this is the first year when Malta&...

Lecturers at Junior College, as well as those at the University of Malta, were not at all consulted over the change in the entry requirements for Junior College which the government decreed last week.On Thursday, the government published a legal noti...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has stepped up his pleas for negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine.Francis told the public in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday that “this cruel and senseless war” continues after more than a month...

Voting has ended across Malta and Gozo in the 2022 General Election. The ballot boxes from the various polling stations are being sealed and transferred to the countil hall in Naxxar. Political campaigns ended on Thursday and, after what is...

Labour Party leader Robert Abela and Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech have cast their votes in the 2022 General Election.Abela, accompanied by his wife Lydia, voted at around 9:30am at the Marsascala primary school.Grech, accompanied by his wif...

The Nationalist Party said that its analysis showed that 44% of the voters had cast their vote by 2pm, and not 40% as the Electoral Commission was saying.The PN said that it had informed the commission about the matter.The 143,628 voters mentioned by...

President Joe Biden delivered a forceful and highly personal condemnation of Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Saturday, summoning a call for liberal democracy and a durable resolve among Western nations in the face of a brutal autocrat.As he capped a...

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Nearly 400 new Covid-19 cases have pushed the number of active cases up to nearly 4,000 again, as a 46-year-old woman is among three who were reported dead on Saturday.In total, three women died, the other two aged 86 and 91. In all, 630 people have ...

A man is in hospital with grievous injuries after being hit by a car, the police said.The accident took place on Saturday at 6.30am, in Triq tal-Handaq, Qormi.The pedestrian, a man aged 24, was hit by a Hyundai Kona driven by a 33-year-old man of Fon...

Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine in a ceremony Friday that harked back to a century-old apocalyptic prophecy about peace and Russia that was sparked by purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 191...

Sergio Perez took his first career pole position at the Saudi Arabian Grand as Formula One continued amid heavy scrutiny on Saturday, the day after an attack on a nearby oil depot.Perez edged the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. on hi...

As clocks march ahead and daylight saving time begins, there can be anxiety around losing an hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change.Usually an hour seems like an insignificant amount of time, but even this minimal loss can cause problems. The...

A biker was grievously injured in an accident in Tarxien on Friday afternoon, the police said.The accident took place at 4.30pm in Triq San Anard.It involved a Nissan NV350 driven by a 20-year-old man from Fgura, and a Junak 123 bike.The biker, a 45-...

Russian forces in Ukraine seem to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to instead prioritizing what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region in the country's industrial east, officials said Friday...

PRAGUE — Several thousand Russians living in the Czech Republic in Prague and thousands more people in London have rallied to protest the Russian military aggression against Ukraine.The organizers from Prague’s Russian anti-war committee ...

By the end of February 2022, the Government’s Consolidated Fund reported a deficit of €80.7 million, the National Statistics Office said in a statement on Friday. In the first two months of 2022, Recurrent Revenue amounted to €797.5 m...

European Union leaders struggled for hours Friday to find a compromise on a deal aimed at curbing energy prices that have gone through the roof and hurt households and businesses across the 27-nation bloc.There was a clear rift between the bloc's sou...

MEP Josianne Cutajar has been appointed to an important new COVID-19 Pandemic Strategy Committee. On Thursday, the European Parliament announced the names of MEPs who will sit on three new Committees set up on 10th of March.Cutajar is the only Maltes...

It is the day when the Maltese get to decide which political party will govern them in the next five years.The political campaigns came to an end on Thursday night and, after observing a day of silence, the so-called day of reflection, the Maltese ar...

Political parties and a number of candidates are still running adverts on social media and youtube, despite the day of silence. The day before voting has been traditionally known as the silent day, one in which it is prohibited at law to in any way t...

The Electoral Commission said Friday that 14,473 voting documents were not collected, a four per cent cut from the total of 354,896 registered voters. This is nearly double the 8,372 voting documents not collected in the last election in 2017, a 2.44...

Four men carrying a total of €64,967 in undeclared cash were intercepted by Customs Malta at the MIA, the customs department said on Friday.Two Maltese passengers en-route to Turkey and Australia respectively, were found to be carrying a total o...

The head of a ferry operator at the center of a bitter labor dispute stunned U.K. lawmakers Thursday when he acknowledged that the company chose to ignore the law and labor contracts when it fired 786 workers without consulting with them in advance.P...

An 81-year-old woman has died while positive for Covid-19, as health authorities reported 465 new cases of the virus.127 people have recovered meanwhile, meaning that the number of active cases has increased to 3,590.77 patients are currently receivi...

With stunning speed, Russia's war in Ukraine is driving Western Europe into the outstretched arms of the United States again, especially apparent when President Joe Biden offered a major expansion of natural gas shipments to his European Un...

Ukraine accused Moscow of forcibly removing hundreds of thousands of civilians from shattered Ukrainian cities to Russia to pressure Kyiv to give up, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his country to keep up its military defense and not stop &...

President Vladimir Putin's threat to have “unfriendly” countries pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on got the not-so-friendly treatment from European Union nations Thursday.“I don’t think anybody in E...

The election campaign is over and, tomorrow, we are being invited to exercise our right to vote to elect the new government.The Friday before the election has been traditionally known as the silent day, one in which it is prohibited at law to in any ...

Prime Minister and PL leader Robert Abela warned against the PN's "politics of division" as he addressed a party mass meeting for the last time in the electoral campaign on Thursday.Speaking at the MFCC in Ta' Qali, Abela said that the PN is anchored...

Similar to every industry, gambling is a legalised sector with special regulations created to maintain fair and transparent gambling. The operators who want to lawfully offer gambling services in both land-based and online sectors require an operatin...

BERLIN — Germany’s economy minister says his country has forged contracts with new suppliers that will allow it to significantly reduce its reliance on Russian coal, gas and oil in the coming weeks.Robert Habeck told reporters in Berlin o...

It would be a mistake not to realise that the country's democracy is once again in danger under a PL government, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said, calling for a change in administration.Addressing a large crowd in the PN's final rally at St Georg...

The Committee on Rules of Procedure of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly has voted that there was a “serious breach of the rules of conduct” by Rosianne Cutajar.The former Parliamentary Secretary was investigated for fa...

Students will no longer require a pass mark in all three of the core O-level subjects in order to be admitted to Junior College, a legal notice published by the government has decreed.Previously, students needed to achieve a grade of 5 or higher in t...

University Pro-Rector Carmen Sammut has defended the change in Junior College entrance policy.She was reacting to news that students will no longer require a pass mark in all three of the core O-level subjects in order to be admitted to Junior Colleg...

Ryanair has announced a new schedule for summer 2022, with nine new routes to destinations in Italy, France, Croatia, Israel, Ireland, and Poland on the cards. During a press conference, it was said that besides including new routes and, the sch...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said he would offer his name once again for the PN leadership elections should the PN lose Saturday’s election.Addressing a press conference in Valletta, Grech was answering questions from journalists, one of whi...

Italy has gone from winning the European Championship to failing to qualify for the World Cup in just eight months.In a rapid and stunning fall from grace, the Azzurri were upset by North Macedonia in a 1-0 loss that headlined a night of dr...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that Prime Minister Robert Abela could have given malicious advice to former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, with aims to take his position as leader of the country.Addressing a press conference in Valletta on Thurs...

In the final debate before Saturday’s general election, Prime Minister Robert Abela and Opposition Leader Bernard Grech faced off on the national broadcasting station, Public Broadcasting Services.The debate, which was moderated by PBS journali...

In just the last three days, the CABS teams in Malta and Gozo, together with the police, were able to uncover no less than six cases of illegal bird trapping and convict the perpetrators, Cabs said in a statement."In order to catch greenfinches, linn...

415 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Thursday.131 new recoveries were reported, and with no new deaths reported, the number of active cases has risen to 3,253.75 patients are currently receiving treatment at Mater Dei Hosp...

Opposition Leader Bernard Grech said that the PN’s costings are detailed, whilst Prime Minister Robert Abela only provided a number for his electoral programme, that of €3.3 billion, he said, addressing a press conference in Valletta.Asked...

Ukraine President Volodymr Zelenskyy called on people worldwide to gather in public Thursday to show support for his embattled country on the one-month anniversary of the Russian invasion that he said breaks the heart of “every free person on t...

The election campaign comes to an end today.The political parties will make their final push for votes. Most of us have already made up their minds what they will do on Saturday. It is only a few who still have to decide which way to go.It has been a...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance is stepping up its defenses against chemical and nuclear weapons as concern mounts that Russia might use such weapons in Ukraine.Stoltenberg says that NATO leaders agreed at their sum...

Pop music star and multi-award winner, Lewis Capaldi will be making his debut on the iconic Fosos in Malta on 2 July, the Malta Tourism Authority announced.2019 opened in the midst of Capaldi finding himself plauded from seemingly every critic spanni...

The people have spoken. It is safe to assume that Malta will have another Labour government, which will be formally set up in the coming days. While the official result will be out later on this morning, the surveys had been showing that Abela’...

Independent candidate Arnold Cassola has said that Malta deserves better, telling voters to go for it and vote for change.This is an election where there is no competiton. The result is known: The Prime Minister for the next 5 years will be Robert Ab...

An agreement has been reached whereby two cruise liners will be allowed to retain their berths at the Grand Harbour during the 31 March regatta. The Malta Maritime Forum had requested a meeting with the authorities after Transport Malta told operator...

An elderly man was taken to hospital with grievous injuries after he was hit by a car in Fgura, the police said.The accident happened in Triq is-Sur at 7.15pm on Wednesday.The police said that the 82-year-old was hit by a Jeep Renegade driven by a 28...

Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Luigi di Maio said relations between Italy and Malta have improved in recent months thanks to the efforts of his Maltese counterpart, Minister Evarist Bartolo, while Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush said that th...

 It took three judges of the Constitutional Court less than an hour to dismiss a case filed by the PN against the Electoral Commission over an irregular prison vote, ruling that the Constitutional Court - Malta's highest court - did not have leg...

Prime Minister Robert Abela stressed on the importance of voting while stating that the Nationalist Party does not want people to vote “in order for them to do as they wish with the country.”Addressing followers in Xewkija Gozo, Abela urg...

PN leader Bernard Grech questioned on Wednesday why the government has resorted to “trying to buy votes” when the trust rating gaps between him and Prime Minister Robert Abela are so much in Abela’s favour.Grech was asked whether he...

Prime Minister Robert Abela has said that he hopes the PN will "respect the democratic process," when asked about the prison votes court case, while adding that until now the PL is not involved in the court process.The Nationalist Party is taking cou...

Prime Minister Robert Abela evaded answering a question on whether the public will be given the same payments on overtime work as he did when he was a lawyer for the Planning Authority.Lovin Malta revealed on Wednesday that Abela had charged the PA f...

Enemalta Corporation said it is investigating the damage caused to the energy interconnector which was caused by the anchor of a ship that went out of control during last Saturday’s storm.In a post on its Facebook page, Enemalta said that the f...

375 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday as hospitalisations jumped upwards in a single day.127 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases has continued to rise, this time reaching ...

With Italy’s worst soccer moment on many people’s minds, coach Roberto Mancini is not thinking about the unthinkable but about winning the World Cup in Qatar.Italy failed to qualify for the 2018 tournament. Missing two straight World Cups...

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 84.President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four y...

The Nationalist Party said today that its "transformative vision set out in its electoral programme will earn the country an additional €42.6 billion over eight years, while creating 32,500 new high-end jobs with an average salary of €43,00...

The Electoral Commission said today it is revising the previous notice published yesterday and notifies that on polling day which is going to be held at Mater Dei including SAMOC, Karin Grech, Mount Carmel and Gozo General Hospitals includi...

Surveys continue to show that Maltese voters will give the Labour Party another comfortable victory in Saturday’s election. It would be the third in a row.And yet Prime Minister Robert Abela continues to push for more, at times also coming up w...

The Police are seeking information about a man who was last seen on 5 March, and has been reported missing.Jonathan Baldacchino, who is 36 years old and lives in Sliema, was reported missing to Police.Police said that he was last seen around Attard o...

Three people have been arrested by police and are set to be charged with the manufacturing and trafficking of cocaine, along with money laundering, amongst other things.The police said that its anti-drug squad carried out two separate raids in connec...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was set to meet with U.S. lawmakers Wednesday to discuss a possible freeze on Russian reserves of gold.The move comes after several lawmakers introduced the Stop Russian GOLD Act, meant to target Rus...

Ukrainian leaders accused Russia of seizing 15 rescue workers and drivers from a humanitarian convoy trying to get desperately needed food and other supplies into the bloodied port city of Mariupol, which also came under naval attack after weeks of a...

Even before Air Force One touches down in Brussels to bring President Joe Biden to three Ukraine summits on Thursday, Western allies have already found what they are looking for — that all too rare sense of unity.They have Russian President Vla...

The World Meteorological Organisation is dedicating this year’s World Meteorological Day, which has been celebrated on 23 March for the past 61 years, to raising awareness about the importance of issuing early warnings which enable the public, ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry have all praised Malta’s Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo for his continuous efforts to en...