The Education Ministry had nothing to do with the change in policy over the Junior College entry requirements, the Union of Professional Educators has said. A few days before the 2022 general election, it was announced that for a student to enter Jun...

Malta International Airport welcomed 316,713 passengers in March, with this number bringing the traffic for the first quarter of 2022 up to nearly 673,000 passenger movements, it said in a statement.This quarterly total was 44.1% below the traffic ha...

A showdown looms in Ukraine as Russia appointed a new military commander and looked to concentrate its attacks on the eastern part of the country, while Ukraine’s president said his troops will hold their ground, and urged Western leaders, in p...

The Maltese government has donated 200,000 vaccine doses to Ivory Coast, while it continues to show solidarity with countries in need, in particular to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the largest ever Covid-19 vaccination donation by the government th...

Ukraine’s president warned his nation Sunday night that the coming week would be as crucial as any in the war.“Russian troops will move to even larger operations in the east of our state,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly add...

Malta has entered a new legislature. The government has pledged a strong environmental focus, a pledge one will keep the Labour Party to.Malta has, for many years, placed priority on building with the environment we live in being a mere afterthought,...

Incumbent Emmanuel Macron will face far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a winner-takes-all runoff for the French presidency, after they both advanced Sunday in the first round of voting in the country’s election to set up another h...

The devastation discovered in the suburb of Bucha, just a few miles outside of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city, has become one of the defining images of the war which Russia has waged over Ukraine in the past year.It was a scene which was witnesse...

542 new cases of Covid-19 were registered on Sunday, and three more people have died with the virus.317 people recovered from the virus, which means that the number of active cases continues to rise. Malta now has 9,043 active cases of the virus.Deta...

Former Minister José Herrera said that there were times when the Labour government could have done more on Malta’s good governance and rule of law, but for one to say that it did nothing, it would be an incorrect assertion to make. Follo...

The 31-year-old Eritrean who was hit by a car on 4 April has died.Preliminary investigations showed that the man who lived in Hal-Far had been hit by a Suzuki Swift which was being driven by a 32-year-old from Zejtun.The victim was given first aid on...

Did you always see yourself working in the political field?Yes, although I never thought I would be directly involved in politics as a Member of Parliament. Politics has always been a part of my life. My father spent 15 years as chief of staff workin...

Year after year, election after election, it’s not getting better for the Nationalist Party.Actually, it’s getting worse.In normal circumstances, a party in opposition always manages to eat into the lead built by the party in government. ...

The Labour and Nationalist parties have dominated Maltese politics since Malta gained independence in 1964, but most of the time there have been third parties throwing their names into the ring, offering an alternative for voters.Third parties contes...

The entire world now knows that the Russian armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine. The conflict has been ongoing for more than six weeks now, but it was only a few days ago that proof of civilian killings emerged. Thousands of foreign jou...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna gave start to the upcoming holy week leading up to Good Friday and Easter with a call for a spiritual union and prayers for Ukrainians fleeing from war.In celebration of Palm Sunday, Scicluna delivered a special mass at St...

Sliema Wanderers have been relegated to the Challenge League after 37 years in the top flight. One of the most successful teams in local football were last relegated in season 1983/84 when in that year it was Hamrun Spartans who won the league champi...

Such intensity, such fine margins but nothing decided. The destination of the Premier League title does, though, remain in Manchester City’s hands.Liverpool has to rely on the champions slipping up to regain the trophy.A 2-2 draw between Englan...

Inter Milan took a big step toward defending its Serie A title without even playing on Sunday.Serie A leader AC Milan was again let down by its poor finishing in a 0-0 draw at Torino, while Napoli lost 3-2 at home to Fiorentina.Milan remained top of ...

BERLIN -- Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.The Austria Press Agency reported that Nehammer told reporters in Vienna on Sunday that he plans to make the journey. It follows a trip...

Civilian evacuations moved forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine on Saturday, a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station where thousands clamored to leave before an exp...

Labour Party candidate Cressida Galea, an economist by profession, is likely to make it to Parliament via the gender-corrective mechanism. She tells us that she cannot get by without the internet, loves fish and would like to eradicate nuclear weapon...

​Malta, as a front-line member state, is pleased with the degree of attention and focus that is being given to the issue of migration, and its various aspects, by citizens within the framework of the Conference on the Future of Europe...

Riding high after a decisive victory for Ferrari in the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, Charles Leclerc’s belief in the team's prospects are growing by the race.A grand prix billed as a showdown between Leclerc’s Ferrari and the Red Bull...

Three more patients with Covid-19 have died, while the number of active cases has continued to climb.Details about the deaths or about the number of people receiving treatment in hospitals were not provided, and have not been provided since the Minis...

A man was arrested after two persons were injured in a fight in St Paul’s Bay on Saturday afternoon, the police said.The incident took place in Triq il-Parrocca at 1pm.It involved a Libyan man aged 40, a Maltese man aged 54 and a 25-year-old wo...

The Electoral Commission notifies that the counting of votes for the Casual Elections to fill up seats vacated by Nationalist Party candidates elected on two districts will take place on Tuesday, 12th April, 2022, at the Counting Complex, Naxxar. The...

"The pandemic sucked us all into a vortex of inescapable uncertainty. We grappled with a sinister unknown, a phantom behemoth that threatened all that we hold dear and augured a premature encounter with our Maker. Caught up in this miasma which hung ...

A man was arrested and a second is being sought by the police after a robbery was committed in Paola on Saturday afternoon, the police said.A woman told officers that she had been the victim of a robbery in Ghajn Dwieli at around 12.45pm.The police f...

9am to 12pm & 4 to 7pmFloriana: Floriana  Dispensary, 29, Vincenzo Dimech Street; Ħamrun: Darwin Pharmacy, 152, St Joseph High Road; Qormi: St George's Pharmacy, 21, Main Street; Birkirkara: Mint Care Pharmacy, 5B-71 Brared Street; Ta' ...

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...

The Malta Women’s Lobby expressed "serious concern" at the manner in which the current gender-balancing mechanism, introduced to address the democratic deficit that currently plagues our parliamentary set-up, is being manipulated. The MWL said...

Hibernians maintained their two-point lead at the top of the Premier League table after finishing a scoreless draw against second-placed and title contenders Floriana.The match was completely different from their clash a couple of weeks ago in which ...

It was a Premier League day that could hardly have gone any better for Tottenham.With its 4-0 win at Aston Villa — inspired by Son Heung-min's hat trick — and losses for both Arsenal and Manchester United on Saturday, Tottenham became fav...

Defending Serie A champion Inter Milan moved within one point of league leader and city rival AC Milan with a 2-0 win against Hellas Verona on Saturday.Ivan Perišić set up both first-half goals for Nicolò Barella and Edin D?eko.Mil...

A man was grievously injured in a traffic accident in Qawra on Saturday morning.The police said the accident took place in Qawra Road at around 6.30am.It involved a Toyota HI-ACE driven by a 29-year-old man and a Toyota Yaris driven by a 41-year-old ...

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...

BOSTON -- S&P Global Ratings has downgraded its assessment of Russia’s ability to repay foreign debt, signaling increased prospects that Moscow will soon default on such loans for the first time in more than a century.The credit ratings age...

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...

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc claimed his second pole position of the year with a blistering final lap in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday.Leclerc, who won the season-opening race in Bahrain in March, posted a time of 1 minute, 1...

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...