Four people were arrested in connection with the murder of Mario Farrugia, the police said in a statement.Farrugia was found murdered in the boot of a car in Qormi on 5 April.At around 6pm last night, the police surrounded three different residences ...

A car has overturned on the Regional Road in St Julian's leading to a massive traffic jam in the area.The police said that the accident took place at around 7.45am.It involved two cars, a Toyota Yaris and a Toyota Vitz, with the latter overturning on...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has refused to resign after being fined for breaking his government's pandemic lockdown rules, saying he would instead redouble his efforts to strengthen the economy and combat Russian aggression in Ukraine.London...

The presidents of four countries on Russia’s doorstep visited Ukraine on Wednesday and underscored their support for the embattled country, where they saw heavily damaged buildings and demanded accountability for what they called war crimes car...

UNITED NATIONS— A U.N. task force is warning in a new report that Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens to devastate the economies of many developing countries that are now facing even higher food and energy costs and increasingly diffic...

Newly elected Rebecca Buttigieg and Alicia Bugeja Said will be appointed to Cabinet as parliamentary secretaries, the Office of the Prime Minister announced on Wednesday.Buttigieg will serve as the Parliamentary Secretary for Reforms and Equality wit...

A company linked to alleged kidnapper Christian Borg has been formally awarded a €250,000 tender by Transport Malta for the provision of 41 vehicles. Princess Operations is owned by Borg, who was arraigned on abduction and assault charges along ...

Former Prime Minister Joesph Muscat has taken to social media to defend the gender quota mechanism in place for Parliament as well as proposing that the Presidency role in Malta would alternate between a man and a woman. With 22 women now in Par...

The Spring Hunting season on European Turtle-dove cannot open on Sunday, after the courts on Wednesday provisionally accepted a request for an injunction on the hunting season filed by BirdLife Malta.In a statement announcing the news, BirdLife Malta...

The Russian soldiers forced more than 300 villagers into a school basement. Then, during weeks of stress and deprivation, some began to die.Residents of Yahidne, a village 140 kilometres (87 miles) from Kyiv, told The Associated Press about being ord...

Robert Cutajar has been appointed as the PN’s Parliamentary Group secretary, while the same parliamentary group has appointed 13 MPs to serve in the party’s executive. In a meeting between Nationalist Party Members of Parliament, a d...

Two Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, while 408 new cases have been reported by health authorities on Monday.702 people have recovered, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 8,683.3,194 swab tests were ad...

Swinging the term around on multiple occasions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has abused of the term ‘denazification’ in order to confuse the brainwashed Russian citizen in supporting his invasion of Ukraine. With thousands of civilian...

The Maltese Diabetes Association welcomed the government’s announcement that Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices (CGMs) will be introduced for persons aged 17 to 21 years living with type 1 diabetes after the success of the pilot project for ...

In the end, it was Pep Guardiola getting the better of Diego Simeone in the battle of contrasting styles in the Champions League.Atlético Madrid couldn’t find a spark for its struggling attack and was held to a 0-0 draw by Guardiola's Ma...

A place in the Champions League semifinals secured. The dream of an unprecedented quadruple of trophies still intact. Key players rested amid a hectic schedule.Liverpool is in a good place entering the home straight of what could turn out to be the c...

 The European Commission has welcomed the swift adoption by the Council of the proposals to ensure the continued long-term supply of medicines from Great Britain to Northern Ireland and to address outstanding supply concerns in Cyprus, Ireland a...

Three passengers carrying €31,410 in undeclared cash were intercepted by Customs Malta at the MIA, the Customs department said on Wednesday.Gypsy the Customs Canine made a positive reaction towards two Syrian passengers travelling to Erbil, in I...

A woman was critically injured on Tuesday evening when she was hit by a car on the Marsa-Hamrun bypass, the police said.The woman, aged 34 of Santa Venera, was hit by a Mazda Demio driven by a 30-year-old man of Birkirkara at 9pm.The woman was taken ...

Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday that Russia's bloody offensive in Ukraine would continue until its goals are fulfilled and insisted the campaign was going as planned, despite a major withdrawal in the face of stiff Ukrainian opposition and sig...

WARSAW, Poland – A top aide to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says Duda and the presidents of the three Baltic nations have arrived in Ukraine, ahead of talks about material aid for country invaded by Russia.Pawel Szrot, chief of Duda&rs...

While the election result – Labour’s massive victory – came as no surprise, the electorate passed on a strong message in the 26 March general election, in the form of who it voted into Parliament, and those it left out. Perhaps the ...

Hili Ventures and its subsidiaries across Europe are supporting the humanitarian effort in Ukraine by extending financial support to charities working to help thousands of people in need at the border and on the ground. More than 10 tonnes of supplie...

The easing of Covid-19 restrictions has pushed up the number of travellers to Gozo in the first quarter of 2022, statistics issued by the NSO show.During the first quarter of 2022, sea transport between Malta and Gozo registered increases in trips, p...

PN stalwarts Jason Azzopardi and Edwin Vassallo have failed to be elected in the PN's casual election, which took place this morning at the Naxxar counting hall. The PN has elected 7 MPs: Rebekah Cilia, Stanley Zammit, Graham Bencini, Karol Aquilina,...

An $85 million superyacht that linked to a Russian oligarch is making its way to Malta after having been moored in Norway for weeks, where dockers refused to refuel the vessel, Businessinsider reports.Website Marine Traffic shows the vessel making it...

Former Nationalist Party MP and shadow Minister Jason Azzopardi has announced his retirement from politics after failing to get elected to Parliament in Tuesday’s casual election.In a sentimental social media post, Azzopardi said today marks an...

With the casual elections now complete and in the books, the outcome of the gender corrective mechanism can now be worked out.Given that a total of 10 women have been elected to Parliament, either during the initial election process or during the cas...

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said Tuesday that he and Treasure Chief Rishi Sunak will be fined by police for breaching COVID-19 regulations following allegations of lockdown parties at government offices.The news came after London's Met...

The case against the man accused of the 2020 murder of Sliema residents Chris Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejovski, Albanian national Daniel Muka, has been delayed until a committee regulating lawyers issues a ruling after the accused tried to engage a ne...

Three more patients who were positive for Covid-19 have died, while 438 new cases have been recorded.The number of active cases now stands at 8,979. Total cases so far amount to 87,033.There were 590 new recoveries, for a total of 76,991.The death to...

As the final whistle blew — and Bayern Munich's dejected superstars slumped to the ground — Villarreal's substitutes raced onto the field to join the teammates who ousted the six-time European champions.There would have been room enough i...

With Real Madrid looking beaten and on the verge of elimination after a fierce comeback by defending champion Chelsea, Karim Benzema came up big once again in the Champions League.Having scored a hat trick in the first leg to give Madrid a 3-1 lead, ...

The court has rejected a defence raised by the State in a case filed by journalist Manuel Delia regarding his denied requests to visit migrant detention centres, and over a 'controlled' visit he was granted to the Corradino Correctional Facility.Deli...

One beautiful day, Bernie Busuttil and Yolanda Ellul decided to go for a walk along the valley. While walking, they encountered a mountain of rubbish caused by littering and deliberate fly-tipping. A call for help from a tiny bee stopped them in thei...

The coffin was made from pieces of a closet. In a darkened basement under a building shaking from the bombardment of war, there were few other options.Six-year-old Vlad watched as his mother was carried out of the shelter last month and to the yard o...

Six weeks of brutal Russian siege have left more than 10,000 civilians dead in the southern port city of Mariupol and corpses “carpeted through the streets,” the mayor of that cut-off city said, as the West warned that a Russian convoy an...

There are far too many road accidents taking place in the country. Nearly each day the news emerges of an accident that leaves someone injured.Some of these result in loss of life. The most recent victim was a 31-year-old Eritrean who was hit by a ca...

Two men were grievously injured in separate accidents that took place on Monday afternoon, the police said.In the first case, a 39-year-old man from Siggiewi was hospitalised after he was involved in a traffic accident in Mdina Road, Zebbug. The man ...

The hunting federation said Tuesday it is “examining all possible avenues” to counter the court action filed by Birdlife Malta in a bid to stop the spring hunting season.The NGO said Monday it had filed a warrant of prohibitory injunction...

UNITED NATIONS — Nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion and the United Nations has verified the deaths of 142 youngsters although the number is almost certainly much high...

The man who was found murdered in the boot of a car in Qormi has been identified as 62-year-old Mario Farrugia, the police said in a statement on Monday.The car had been found in the Qormi valley on 5 April. The body was found after reports were made...

BirdLife Malta has filed a warrant of prohibitory injunction in Court against the upcoming European turtle-dove spring hunting season, requesting the closure of the season effective immediately.“We are taking legal action in the Maltese Court t...

Total inbound visitors for February 2022 were estimated at 64,623, while total nights spent amounted to 519,972, the National Statistics Office (NSO) said.  During the month under review, a total of 55,887 inbound tourists visited Malta for holi...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce has called for national reforms for the upcoming legislature to curb effects of the Ukrainian conflict, as well as worldwide inflation.The Chamber met with Ministers at the Malta Chamber Main Hall in Valletta to speak ab...

Two Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, while 433 new cases have been reported by health authorities on Monday.340 people have recovered, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 9,134.2,886 swab tests were ad...

The Criminal Court has denied a request for bail filed on behalf of murder suspect Yorgen Fenech.Fenech, a former director of the Electrogas consortium, stands indicted over an alleged role in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. ...

Malta will be freezing Russia’s pending request to deploy new diplomatic officials in our country, Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg said on Monday.He was speaking during the Foreign Affairs Council meeting held in Luxembourg to primarily discu...

The Church schools have urged the government to reconsider the removal of masks in classrooms, saying the move came at a time when there are record numbers of sick students and staff.The mandatory wearing of masks in schools stops on Wednesday.&ldquo...

Around 4,000 elderly persons living in care homes in Malta and Gozo are being administered the second booster show, health minister Chris Fearne said on Monday.He was speaking during a visit at Saint Vincent De Paul residence, where he was accompanie...

Malta’s health authorities have ordered the recall of more Kinder products due to their possible contamination with Salmonella.This comes after a Kinder factory in Belgium was closed because of Salmonella contamination in the products.  So...

Quoting statistics from the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) which said that some 120 nurses had resigned in 2021, the Nationalist Party on Monday stressed the importance of the government to tackle the issue as soon as possible. While ...

An abandoned space in Mosta with an area of around 8,500m2 will be regenerated into a picnic area for residents to enjoy, the government said.This area will be embellished with tree planting and a number of picnic benches. Parks Malta will be re...

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...