A missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine where thousands had gathered Friday, killing at least 52 and wounding dozens more in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a new, looming Russian offensive, Ukrainian au...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured early Saturday morning after he was involved in a crash, the police said.The accident took place in Qrejten Street, Pieta, at 5am.It involved a Kymco bike and Toyota Hilux, driven by a 59-year-old man of Siggiewi...

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s security service has intercepted communications of Russian troops that provide evidence of war crimes.“There are soldiers talking with their parents about what ...

The motion picture academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.The move comes after a meeting of the academy's Board of Governors to...

With the conclusion of the casual elections to fill the seats vacated by Labour Party candidates on Thursday, we now know who will make up the PL’s benches in Parliament for the upcoming legislature.There were some surprise results, as more inc...

Four Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, as 659 new cases were reported by health authorities on Friday.This means that 656 people have now died while positive for Covid-19.420 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that ...

A 20-page supplement on Pope Francis’ visit to Malta will be published with The Malta Independent on Sunday on 10 April.The supplement includes all five speeches delivered by the pontiff during his 32-hour stay, the speech delivered by Presiden...

A Gozitan teenager was seriously injured after a biking incident in Ghajnsielem on Thursday evening, the police said Friday.The accident happened as the 15-year-old boy from Nadur was biking in the countryside at around 7pm.The boy lost control of th...

PARIS (AP) — With war singeing the European Union's eastern edge, French voters will be casting ballots in a presidential election whose outcome will have international implications. France is the 27-member bloc’s second economy, the only...

The Planning Authority has refused an application to sanction an illegal gate which was blocking access to the Blata tal-Melh coastline in Bahrija.The case officer had recommended that the application for the gate – which was put up without any...

Five-month-old baby Chayan, who last Sunday received Pope Francis’ blessing at St Paul’s Basilica in Rabat has passed away yesterday morning.Chayan’s mother, Valerie Ciantar, told TVM that her son, who had a rare heart condition, &l...

Two men were arrested shortly after allegedly robbing a greengrocer in Ħal Kirkop, in Triq l-Ewwel Titjira 1915.The men, a 34-year-old from Zurrieq and a 46-year-old resident in Santa Venera were armed with a knife and fled the scene by car with...

A man was grievously injured on Friday morning after falling one storey while working at the Freeport, the police said.The accident happened at around 9am.The 64-year-old man, of Luqa, was taken to hospital for treatment.

A judge has resisted efforts made by Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers to be given copies of data retrieved from a mobile phone belonging to murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed in October 2017, by a bom...

The European Union has imposed sanctions on two adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a new package of measures targeting Russia's economy, businessmen and oligarchs in retaliation for the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, accor...

Malta's Customs Department has seized a record breaking haul of cocaine which is estimated to have a street value of more than €100 million.In a statement, the department said that the operation spanned from Wednesday morning till late...

CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian leaders predicted more gruesome discoveries would be made in reclaimed cities and towns as Russian soldiers retreat to focus on eastern Ukraine, where officials said a Russian rocket attack on a packed train ...

Ukrainian leaders predicted there would be more gruesome discoveries in the days ahead after retreating Russian forces left behind crushed buildings, streets strewn with destroyed cars and mounting civilian casualties that drew condemnation from acro...

It was bound to happen, and it did.On Wednesday, the European Commission said it will proceed with infringement proceedings against Malta on its golden passport scheme. Malta had been facing such a prospect since October 2020.In a reasoned opinion it...

Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina are among the countries to have been removed from Malta’s Dark Red Travel List, meaning that people coming into the country from there will no longer have to quarantine.Travel from the two countries was restr...

Works on the modernization of the distribution centre for electricity in Tarxien has been completed, Enemalta said. The investment, which reaches over €2 million, will aid Enemalta in keeping up with increasing demand and will provide better sta...

The autopsy on the body which was found in the boot of the car in Hal Qormi on Tuesday resulted that the victim was stabbed to death in his chest.The body was found after reports to the authorities of a strong foul smell emerging from the car. The vi...

Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Thursday that the government’s priority is to continue to move towards full normality and relaxing Covid-19 restrictions, with more measures set to be relaxed in the coming days.Abela was speaking at Castille...

PN candidate Janice Chetcuti has announced that she has decided not to contest next week’s casual election because she will be elected regardless through the gender corrective mechanism.Because she ranked first out of the party’s unelecte...

Rosianne Cutajar and Glenn Bedingfield were the biggest names to make it to Parliament as the Labour Party’s vacated seats went to a casual election on Thursday.In a process which took little over 45 minutes – much shorter than it usually...

In a resolution adopted with 513 votes to 22 and 19 abstentions on Thursday, MEPs have called for additional punitive measures, including “an immediate full embargo on Russian imports of oil, coal, nuclear fuel and gas.”The resolution say...

Oliver Scicluna has announced his departure from the political scene after he was not elected in Thursday’s casual election process.Scicluna, who was co-opted to Parliament by Robert Abela in January 2021, was not elected on either of the distr...

Two more people have died while positive for Covid-19, as health authorities reported 731 new cases of the virus on Thursday.401 people have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases now stands at 8,357.3,795 swab tests were a...

Nobody was injured after a truck caught fire in San Gwann on Thursday afternoon.Firefighters we called to Triq Santa Margerita in San Gwann at around 12pm after a fire inside a truck was reported.The truck was emptying recycling bins into the back wh...

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have agreed to extend roaming across the European Union until 2032, meaning that consumers will be able to use the internet, make calls and send text messages at no extra cost.The European...

Ukraine braced for a climactic battle for control of the besieged country's industrial east, as Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup and intensify their offensive across the Donbas region, where authorities urged pe...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russia intends to respond to U.S. sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s daughters as it sees fit.“Russia will definitely respond, and will do it as it sees fit,” Peskov said Thursday.The U...

EY’s Industry Focus event on manufacturing, held in collaboration with the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, provided current sector leaders with insights into the current state of affairs. The event and its expert speakers al...

The Environmental Health Directorate within the Superintendence of Public Health said that, following information received from the involved trader, the product below must not be consumed due to the possibility of contamination with Salmone...

The pope’s visit last Sunday gave us the two facets of the national broadcasting station: the ability to rise to the occasion and give a splendid coverage of all that was happening on our shores; and the inability to put politics aside while co...

Malta has started to offer the fourth Covid-19 vaccine shot to the elderly and to the immunosuppressed, Health Minister Chris Fearne announced on Wednesday.“Malta has as of this week started offering a second booster dose to immunosuppressed in...

The European Commission has decided that it will proceed with infringement proceedings against Malta on its golden passport scheme, with the Commission issuing a “reasoned opinion” on the scheme.The reasoned opinion was sent to Malta on W...

European health officials say it's too early to consider giving a fourth dose of messenger RNA coronavirus vaccines to most people, but say an extra booster can be administered to those over age 80. In a joint statement on Wednesday, the Europea...

The casual elections to fill seats ceded by PL candidates in the general election will take place today.The vote counting is set to begin at 9am. A total of 38 nomination have been filed to fill 8 seats that were vacated by MPs who were elected on mo...

Back-to-back Champions League hat tricks just reinforce the enduring value of Karim Benzema's clinical finishing to Real Madrid.Carlo Ancelotti sees so much more being provided by the 34-year-old forward he compares to a fine wine.“He is more o...

Villarreal pulled off another surprising Champions League result, this time against sixth-time champion Bayern Munich to boost its hopes of returning to the semifinals for the first time in 16 years.After making it past the group stage and eliminatin...

Gozo Minister Clint Camilleri will continue to be responsible for bird hunting, while new Culture Minister Owen Bonnici will be responsible for the public broadcaster, the government’s newly published list of ministerial responsibilities shows....

NGOs and activists gathered in Valletta before the Law Courts on Wednesday night on the third anniversary of the murder of Lassana Cisse, saying that they stood there in solidarity with “with our sisters and brothers who continue to face violen...

822 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Wednesday as another pandemic patient has died.The last time Malta reported over 800 cases of the virus in a single day was on 3 January.It means that 650 people have now died while pos...

The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters and said it was toughening penalties against Russian banks in retaliation for “war crimes” in Ukraine. The move...

Three men are in hospital after a fight in Hamrun early this morning, the police said.The incident took place in Mile End Street at 1am.It involved a group of people, including three Syrians who were injured and were taken to hospital.One man aged 31...

A car carrying containers of flammable substances crashed into the gate of the Russian Embassy in the Romanian capital early Wednesday, bursting into flames and killing the driver, police said.The sedan rammed into the gate at about 6 a.m. Wednesday ...

The Constitutional Court has overturned a 2021 judgement by the First Hall of the Civil Court in its Constitutional jurisdiction, in which it had been declared that disbarred lawyer Patrick Spiteri suffered a breach of his fundamental human rights as...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russians of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the...

Each and every election leaves all small parties in the same situation as the previous one.Each time they hope that they have made some inroads, but each time they end up in the same place.They obtain too few votes, not enough to get a seat in Parlia...

During 2021, Government outlay towards Social Security Benefits rose by €38.3 million in comparison to 2020, the National Statistics Office said.Social Security Benefits Expenditure By the end of 2021, spending on Social Security Benefits totall...

BEIJING — China says the reports and images of civilian deaths in the Ukrainian town of Bucha are “deeply disturbing” and is calling for an investigation.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Wednesday that China supports a...

A man has been found inside the boot of a car in Qormi Valley, with early indications being that the person - who is yet to be identified - has been murdered.A police spokesperson on site said that passers-by reported that a suspicious smell was eman...

The Nationalist Party will have a new deputy leader as incumbent Robert Arrigo will not seek to be reappointed to the post.Arrigo told the party’s media Tuesday that his term expires when the party convenes the general council as it is bound to...

Randolph Debattista will go back to occupy the role of CEO at the Labour Party, a position he held between 2017 and 2020.Debattista, who will also be co-opted to Parliament when it is convened, will replace George Azzopardi who will move to the priva...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy has bestowed the Order of Princess Olga upon President of the EU Parliament Roberta Metsola.The Order of Princess Olga is a Ukrainian civil decoration, featuring Olga of Kiev and was bestowed on ...

The Standards Commissioner for Public Life should be selected by public call, the NGO Repubblika said on Tuesday.Repubblika said that the process of choosing who will replace George Hyzler in the role of Standards Commissioner must be truly transpare...

Five Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, while 719 new cases of the virus were reported by health authorities on Tuesday.329 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases has now risen t...

A man was grievously injured after he was stabbed in a garage in Mosta on Tuesday afternoon, the police said.The incident took place in Hope Street at 3.30pm.The man, aged 57 of Mosta, was involved in an argument with another person, during which a p...

An elderly woman has died after balustrades forming the balcony of her home gave way on Monday evening.The tragedy happened at around 7pm in Triq is-Sebh in Birzebbuga, the police said.The 75-year-old woman was washing her balcony at the time the bal...

Frederick Azzopardi will be leaving Malta’s roads agency Infrastructure Malta as from next month.In comments given to MaltaToday, Azzopardi confirmed that he is currently working his notice period as CEO before his impending departure.“I ...

 It just had to be Luis Diaz.The Colombia winger was the last player Benfica supporters inside the atmospheric Estádio da Luz wanted to see race onto a through-ball and produce an emphatic finish to complete a 3-1 win for Liverpool in the...

Kevin De Bruyne scored the only goal to give Manchester City a 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday.After a tight 70 minutes, City finally found its way through Atletico’s tough reargua...

UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine’s president told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes, accusing invading troops of the worst atrocities since World War II.President ...

The National Statistics Office has reported a 1,460 person decrease in registered unemployment in the month of February 2022, compared to the same month in 2021.Registered unemployment levels have decreased for all age groups and for both males and f...

During the Plenary session in Strasbourg, it was decided that Labour MEP and S&D Vice-President Alex Agius Saliba will form part of the committee on Industry, Research and Energy.Agius Saliba is in charge of innovation, AI, and strong digital Eur...

Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine’s southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow’s soldiers del...

A motorcyclist sustained grievous injuries in a traffic accident on Tuesday morning.Police said that it was informed of an accident at around 8am on Tuesday at Foss ta’ Crown Works in Floriana.Preliminary investigations showed that there had be...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to speak Tuesday to U.N. Security Council diplomats outraged by growing evidence that Russian forces have deliberated killed civilians, many of them shot in yards, streets and homes, and their bodies le...

Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne has announced that the government will go ahead with the easing of Covid restrictions as from Sunday, regardless of the steady rise in new daily Covid cases.Among other things, the last day when wearing of masks in ...

In its judgement dated 16 March 2022, in the names of NV vs Bilom Construction Limited, the Court of Appeal, presided over by the Honorary Lawrence Mintoff, overturned a decision of the Industrial Tribunal as the facts were not assessed correctly and...

A 44-year-old man was grievously injured after falling off a ladder.The accident occurred at 2.30pm on Monday, on Triq Dawret Ħal Għaxaq, Għaxaq.The man, from Xgħajra, fell from a one-storey height. He was taken to Mater Dei Hospi...

Russia is facing intense criticism and accusations of war crimes after corpses were seen in city streets on the outskirts of Kiev, after the Russians pulled out of the area.The Malta Independent's Neil Camilleri and Giuseppe Attard are on the ground ...

EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola updated the EU Parliament on her visit to Ukraine and appealed for more logistical, humanitarian and military support, at the opening of the Parliamentary session on Monday.Updating MEPs on her visit to Ukraine...

Alfred and George Degiorgio, the brothers accused of being the hitmen who killed journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, have lodged another request for a presidential pardon in exchange for information about the involvement of a former minister in the mu...

Contrary to what has been stated by the Health Minister, Mater Dei Hospital is in severe crisis, with Covid patients being spread in all wards, the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses said Monday.MUMN received more than 20 calls from MDH from nursing ...

The Malta International Airport (MIA), the Malta Entertainment Industry and Arts Association (MEIA), and the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association (MHRA) have all welcomed the reduction in Covid-19 restrictions announced on Monday, and have called...

A 48-year-old worker from Għajnsielem was grievously injured after he was hit by a falling iron object.The accident occurred in a construction site close to Triq Sant' Andrija in St Julian's at 1.15pm.The worker was taken to Mater Dei Hospital a...

Yana and Natalya knew that their children’s lives were the most important thing of all when they decided to flee from eastern Ukraine and search for a safer place in the west. The Malta Independent sat down with two Ukrainian mothers at a ...

Russia faced a fresh wave of condemnation on Monday after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. Some Western leaders called for further sanctions in response, even as Moscow continued to press its offens...

A 45-year-old man was grievously injured after he was hit by a vehicle on Triq is-Swieqi, Swieqi, at 9.15am this morning.The man, who is from Swieqi, was hit by a Honda Accord that was being driven by a 43-year-old Marsascala resident.The victim was ...

Three Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, while 530 new cases of the virus were reported by health authorities on Monday.249 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases has now risen t...

The government will go ahead with the easing of Covid restrictions as from Sunday in spite of a steady rise in cases within the community, Health Minister Chris Fearne said Monday.The last day when wearing of masks in schools is 13 April, which means...

Four organisations have written to the chair of the Planning Authority and Planning Commission, as well as the Environment and Resources Authority, to warn that a planning application for stables adjacent to a protected area near Ta' Ċenċ C...

President George Vella has expressed hope that Pope Francis’ visit will bring joy to the country so that unity and peace may continue to flourish, while also thanking those involved in the organisation and coverage of the pontiff’s visit....

The result of the election held last week was not a surprise.As all pre-election surveys were indicating, the Labour Party cruised to a comfortable victory, the third in a row, the third with a record margin.From a gap of 35,000 reached in two electi...

The 2022 election has come to an end, although there are many seats in Parliament that still need to be filled.With a total of 16 casual elections that need to take place, and the gender corrective mechanism to kick in afterwards, we still have an in...

Graziella Galea was the only woman to be elected to Parliament as a candidate of the Nationalist Party. She was already an MP in the final stages of the last legislature after being co-opted. Now she has the chance of a full term ahead of her.She has...

Why is sustainability important for APS Bank?Sustainability lies at the heart of the Bank's values, underpins its business strategy and is a core pillar of its Corporate Social Responsibility Programme. The Bank and its subsidiaries aspire to play a ...

Pope Francis’ long-awaited visit to the Maltese islands has come and gone.  A momentous occasion, the Pope’s visit brought a country together only a week after the divisiveness of an electoral campaign. Throughout his two-day visit, ...

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared victory in Sunday's national elections, claiming a mandate for a fourth term as a still incomplete vote count showed a strong lead for his right-wing party. In a 10-minute speech to Fide...

Pope Francis said Sunday he was still working on arranging a meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, despite that leader's seeming justification for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and said he wouldn't rule out travelling to the reg...

Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area. Ukrainian authorities accused the departing forces on Sunday of committing w...

A man is suffering from serious injuries after he was hit by a car in a traffic accident early on Monday morning.In a statement, police said that the accident happened at around 3:15am in Triq Diċembru Tlettax in Marsa.Preliminary investigations...

LAS VEGAS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appeared in a video at the Grammy Awards asking for support in telling the story of Ukraine's invasion by Russia.During the pre-recorded message that aired on the show Sunday night, he spo...

Pope Francis used his final address of his Papal visit in Malta to speak about the migration crisis, expressing his hope that Malta would always treat those who land on its shores as it treated St. Paul – with “unusual kindness.”Pop...

Pope Francis has boarded an Air Malta plane along with his delegation and will make his way back to the Vatican, marking the end of the Papal visit to Malta.The Pontiff arrived in Malta on Saturday, and in his two-day visit, met Malta's top officials...

Thousands of the Catholic faithful gathered at the Floriana Granaries on Sunday morning, with Pope Francis set to celebrate a Papal Mass on the last day of his visit to Malta.Floriana was a sea of yellow and white in reflection of the Vatican’s...

A woman died on Sunday afternoon after she was caught underneath her own car which she had just parked, the police said.The woman, aged 75 of Sliema, had just left her vehicle, a Toyota Aygo, which she parked in St. Publius Street at around 5pm.For s...

More than 90 people in an overcrowded boat drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, a prominent humanitarian group said, in the latest tragedy involving migrants departing from North Africa to seek a better life in Europe.Doctors Without Borders said late S...