A man, who is suspected to be the owner of a yacht which was torn off its moorings, has been found dead in the sea after Malta was battered by gale force winds yesterday.Police said in a statement that they were informed at around 7pm that a yacht ha...

New satellite images show what appear to be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians there in an effort to conceal the slaughter taking place in the siege of the port city.The images eme...

Research conducted by Cable.co.uk, an organisation which exists specifically to help consumers compare the price of broadband internet, has found that Malta has the cheapest cost per megabit in Western Europe. The research, which examined the cost of...

On Friday, the hunting federation won a court battle allowing its members to take part in a Spring hunting season. Just a few days later, we witnessed the first mass killing of protected species.On Monday night, a group of Marsh Harriers were massacr...

The Minister for National Heritage, the Arts, and Local Government Owen Bonnici on Friday inaugurated the Maltese Pavilion during the 59th International Art Exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia.”  The Pavilion was commissioned by Arts ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Satellite images released Thursday showed what appeared to be mass graves near Mariupol, and local officials accused Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians there in an effort to conceal the slaughter taking place in t...

New regulations published by the health ministry mean that masks will no longer be mandatory in schools as of Monday 25 April.As the Easter holidays come to a close, at the start of the new term students will no longer be forced to wear masks in clas...

George Hyzler passed the first stage of his European Court of Auditors grilling with flying colours on Thursday, with 25 members of the European Parliament’s CONT committee approving his nomination, sources told The Malta Independent. Hyzler, w...

The head of the EU's financial crime watchdog, Laura Codruţa Kövesi, says Malta is paying lip service in its efforts to crack down on EU fraud and corruption, the EU Observer reports.Speaking to European lawmakers on Wednesday, Kövesi ...

Church schools are encouraging the use of masks, the Curia said in a statement.Earlier today, the Public Health Authorities published the updated Covid-19 Guidelines for the education sector. The guidelines mean that masks will no longer be mand...

Five more Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, as health authorities reported 312 new cases of the virus.681 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases is now down to 5,870.2,319 swab ...

A survey carried out with 600 people found that there is 'no support' for mandatory vaccinations, and that consumers are consuming less than was expected.The survey was conducted by statistician Vince Marmara and Sagalytics, with the questionnai...

A government-owned company has issued a public tender for the provision of front end engineering design (FEED) for the second electrical cable interconnection project between Malta and Sicily.The tender was issued by Interconnect Malta, which has bee...

Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to claim victory in the strategic port of Mariupol on Thursday, even as he ordered his troops not to storm the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war’s iconic battleground.Russian troops have besie...

The compilation of evidence against Elliott Busuttil, the man accused of killing Mario Farrugia and hiding his body in a car in Qormi, has been delayed after the accused tested positive for Covid-19.Farrugia was last seen on 28 March in the vicinity ...

Relentless Russian attacks pounded the last Ukrainian stronghold in the besieged city of Mariupol as a fighter apparently on the inside issued a video plea for help, saying defenders holed up in a giant steel plant "may have only a few days or hours ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to announce plans Thursday to send additional military aid to help Ukraine fight back against the Russian invasion, according to a U.S. official.The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly an...

The gender-corrective mechanism that was introduced in the last legislature, and implemented as from the March election, has led to Malta having its largest Parliament yet, with 79 members, which is also the biggest per capita in Europe.There is now ...

A fire has erupted in an apartment in Sliema this morning, police said.The apartment is situated in St Ignatius Street just after 9.30am.Members of the Civil Protection Department and police officers are on site.

The Nationalist Party is set to begin its statutory obligation to elect a leader this week – and it’s probable that the current incumbent will be the only candidate for the post.Bernard Grech, who was elected to the party leadership just ...

Chris Said has said that he was left out of the PN’s shadow Cabinet because he formed part of Lawrence Gonzi’s Cabinet when the PN was still in government before 2013.Asked about his exclusion from the PN’s shadow Cabinet on Monday ...

Maltese MEP Alex Agius Saliba said Wednesday that the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee voted 43 in favour, 2 against and no abstentions towards enacting the common charger legislation.In a media press briefin...

Two more Covid-19 patients have died while positive for the virus, as health authorities reported 297 new cases of the virus.785 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, meaning that the number of active cases is now down to 6,244.2,372 swab t...

A man with nine previous convictions for illegal hunting has been cleared of shooting a stork in 2020 after the prosecution withdrew six of the nine charges and failed to exhibit his firearms licence.Officers from the Administrative Law Enforcement u...

A British judge on Wednesday formally approved the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges. The case will now go to Britain’s interior minister for a decision, though the WikiLeaks founder still has legal avenu...

31 local restaurants have been recognized by the Michelin Guide, which annually recognizes the quality and culinary skills of the best restaurants in the world.For the year of 2022, five restaurants in the Maltese Islands have earned the prestigious ...

Russia hurled its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and poured more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.T...

A man died after he was hit by a car in Marsa on Tuesday evening.The accident took place in Triq Diċembru Tlettax, at around 8pm, the police said.The victim, a 24-year-old Sudanese man who lives in Birzebbugia, was hit by a Land Rover Freelander...

It's still advantage Manchester City in the Premier League title race.Three second-half goals earned City a 3-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday, lifting Pep Guardiola's team back into first place after being ousted — only for 24 hours as it turn...

Federico Bernardeschi scored against his former club as Juventus beat Fiorentina 2-0 on Wednesday to set up an Italian Cup final against Inter Milan.After Fiorentina goalkeeper Bartłomiej Drągowski failed to intercept a cross, Bernardeschi ...

BERLIN -- The United Nations’ refugee agency says that more than 5 million people have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24.The Geneva-based U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday put the total number of refuge...

A number of Maltese parishes will be collecting basic and essential items for Ukrainian people on Saturday April 23.The initiative, which is being coordinated by the Archdiocese of Malta through the LOOP Cooperative will collect items specifically re...

Parliament is still to be convened after the election and, yet, here we are with the first co-option of the legislature.The Labour Party, with the assent of Prime Minister Robert Abela, has chosen to pick Randolph Debattista for a seat in the House o...

The evidence stage of the compilation of evidence against Daniel Muka, who stands accused of committing a double murder, has been declared closed.Muka is accused of murdering Chris Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejovski in their Sliema home on Locker street...

Tens of protected Marsh-harriers were massacred by hunters during the night, BirdLife Malta said in a statement.“BirdLife Malta volunteers and members yesterday witnessed a horrible hunting massacre during the first hours of the night that deci...

Hotel bookings for Easter averaged over 70% of the number of bookings during the same period in 2019, President of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association Tony Zahra told The Malta Independent on Monday.85% of the hotel guests were non-Maltese, ...

One man has been jailed and two others have been remanded in custody after they were arraigned in court, accused of stealing thousands of euro from a construction site in Kalkara on April 17.Brendan Cachia, 35, from Vittoriosa, Ramon Abela,46, from C...

After days of regrouping and reinforcing, the Russian military began a new and potentially climactic phase of the war in Ukraine by launching its long-feared, full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country's industrial heartland, the Donb...

282 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Tuesday, while no new deaths were reported for the first time since the beginning of the month.701 people meanwhile have recovered from the virus, taking the number of active cases down...

The impact of a 40% rise in importation costs for fertiliser, which is required by farmers, will create a food shortage with devastating effects on the country, the PN's Agriculture spokesperson Toni Bezzina and Finance spokesperson Jerome Caruana Ci...

Two more speed cameras are set to be installed on the Coast Road, the Local Enforcement System Agency (LESA) announced on Tuesday.The cameras will be fully installed in the coming days, and are being installed in the southbound direction of the Coast...

Liverpool is back where Manchester United is far from reaching: Top of the Premier League.To know why there is such a deficit in quality now between English football’s most successful clubs, just look at how Liverpool’s forwards tormented...

Lautaro Martínez scored twice to send Inter Milan into the Italian Cup final with a 3-0 second-leg win over city rival AC Milan on Tuesday.Both of Martínez’s goals came in the first half in a clinical performance that also gave In...

Malta Chamber of Commerce President Marisa Xuereb warned Monday that inflation is set to consistently hit Malta for the next six to 12 months as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.Speaking to The Malta Independent, Xuereb shared the difficulties fac...

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has issued a public notice stating that a duplicate of their website has been created under the name of NFSA. The layout and contents of the malicious website are identical to that of the MFSA and it...

KYIV, Ukraine — A regional governor in eastern Ukraine says five civilians have been killed by Russian shelling.Kharkiv region Governor Oleh Synyehubov said Tuesday that another 17 residents were wounded in the Russian rocket barrage of the cen...

Who should and shouldn’t be allowed to win government tenders?Well for one, those in court over serious criminal charges should definitely not benefit from public funds. For another, those without the knowhow in an area they are tendering for s...

 Cristiano Ronaldo took to social media on Monday to say one of his newborn twins has died.“It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away,” the Manchester United striker wrote in a post&nbs...

Adrian Delia has been granted a mega portfolio by PN leader Bernard Grech, while new MP Mark Anthony Sammut has been granted the energy sector.The shadow Cabinet was announced on Monday evening after PN leader Bernard Grech on Monday spent the day me...

A court has been told that a man from Gharghur allegedly threatened to shoot three children, including his 10-year-old daughter, during a domestic argument with his estranged wife on Easter Sunday.Inspector John Spiteri arraigned the 37-year-old man ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Ian Borg has requested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy address the Maltese Parliament when it restarts.Borg was referring to a conversation he had with Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Kuleba, Bo...

The Department of Information has issued a right of reply on behalf of the government in response to the Malta Independent's editorial, which questioned whether Malta is doing enough to sanction Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.The right of reply ...

Frank Psaila and Alessia Psaila Zammit have become the latest to resign from the Nationalist Party, The Malta Independent can confirm.Psaila, who for many years presented current affairs programmes and was the third-most popular candidate in the 2019...

Four Covid-19 patients died over the Easter weekend, with two deaths being reported on Easter Sunday and another two on Monday, data published by health authorities at the start of the week showed.Malta’s Covid-19 numbers were not published at ...

An appeal against the refusal of a massive solar farm in Mgarr has been filed, with the minds behind plans to take up almost eight football pitches worth of Outside Development Zone agricultural land seeking to get the PA's verdict overturned.The app...

The Valletta Green Festival, the annual event which is synonymous with spring in Valletta, is taking place from Thursday 28th April till Sunday 1st May.The theme for this year’s edition is the importance of public spaces, the protection of natu...

Another hit to his team’s Serie A title ambitions left Napoli captain Lorenzo Insigne in tears following a 1-1 draw with Roma on Monday.Insigne converted an early penalty but then watched as Roma dominated the second half at Stadio Diego Armand...

Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategicall...

A 48-year-old man was the latest victim of Malta’s roads, as he was hit by a car in a traffic accident on Monday morning.Police said in a statement that the man, who is Albanian and who lives in Nadur, Gozo, was hit by a Volvo S40 which was bei...

MOSCOW — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says that the barrage of Western sanctions against Russia has failed.Putin said Monday that the West “expected to quickly upset the financial-economic situation, provoke panic in the market...

The war in Ukraine, following Russia’s invasion of the country, has continued unabated, even as the invaders face international condemnation and sanctions.In recent weeks, more and more evidence has emerged of how Russia has committed what can ...

Easter can only be understood through the heart because it “is a dilemma and an enigma to the mind: it defies logic,” said Archbishop Charles Scicluna during the Sermon he delivered at St John’s Co-Cathedral on Easter Sunday.The gos...

'I'm sure it could have been handled much better," former Foreign Affairs Minister Evarist Bartolo said, when asked if in hindsight he thinks Vitals Global Healthcare was a mistake.“The proof of this is the fact that the government is still try...

Malta’s Covid-19 numbers were not published at all by Maltese health authorities on Sunday – not even on the public health department’s open source database.While the daily update is usually published at around 12:30pm, as at 4:30pm...

The atrocities of the war in Ukraine have pushed millions to leave their home country to seek the safety of a new beginning, many of them settling in nearby countries bordering the besieged state.Others chose to move further away, with some finding s...

Actress Catherine Spaak has died, aged 77, Italian media report.Born in France to a Belgian family, Spaak became famous in Italy as an actress, singer, television presenter and dancer.Two years ago, she had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage.She took pa...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna prayed for people to seek out the fragrances of forgiveness, grace, and peace in his Easter Vigil homily on Saturday night, drawing parallels with the perfumery taken to Jesus’ tomb prior to the discovery of his resu...

The more cynical among us will say that trees breathed in relief when it became known that Ian Borg would no longer be the minister responsible for projects. Under his tenure, hundreds of trees, some of them much older than we all are, were uprooted ...

The latest phase of the Ukrainian people’s journey started more than six weeks ago but the actual origins of this war go back more than 400 years. What may have seemed as an opportune decision was taken in 1649 by then Ukrainian military leader...

Complete the sale of Chelsea inside four weeks and the new ownership will have an FA Cup final against Liverpool to attend.Who will be representing the club in the royal box at Wembley Stadium on May 14 is still to be determined.As the three rem...

KYIV, Ukraine — A regional official in eastern Ukraine says at least two people have been killed by Russian shelling.The Luhansk region’s governor, Serhiy Gaidai, said that at least four others were wounded Sunday when Russia forces fired...

Two motorcyclists were injured, one of them critically, in separate accidents on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, the police said.An Italian man, aged 32 and resident in Sliema, lost control of the Piaggio bike he was riding in Mikiel Anton Vassa...

On what is supposed to be Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the “senseless” war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts raging in the world, and voiced worry about the risk of n...

Her one-month campaign was not enough for her to make it to Parliament from the third district, but Mary Muscat has so much to contribute to the country.A former police inspector and a criminologist, Muscat tells us that she cannot live without her &...

In the Catholic Church, Easter is a time for new beginnings.The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, as Catholics around the world believe, brought with it new hope. It is the greatest example that one could use to show that a defeat could lead to a fresh s...

Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond Saturday in an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat despite Moscow's pivot toward mounting...

Pope Francis on Saturday invoked “gestures of peace in these days marked by the horror of war” in an Easter vigil homily in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by the mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol and three Ukrainian l...

Two men were critically injured in a traffic accident on the Regional Road leading to the Santa Venera tunnels, northbound direction.The accident took place at around 4.50pm.It involved a Suzuki Alto driven by a 49-year-old man of Floriana and a Hond...

A commercial oil tanker carrying more than 750 tons of diesel ran aground overnight from Friday to Saturday in the Gulf of Gabès in southeastern Tunisia.According to the Environment Ministry, the ship sank late Saturday morning due to water se...

Valletta: New British Dispensary, 109/110, St John Street; Ħamrun: Remedies Pharmacy, 678, St Joseph High Road; Qormi: Tal-Ħlas Pharmacy, 60, Tumas Fenech Street c/w Mdina Road; Birkirkara: Pharmaplus, Ganu Street; Msida: Regal Pharmacy, 39...

A biker was critically injured on Saturday afternoon in a crash in Naxxar, the police said.The accident took place in Labour Avenue at 12.45pm.The biker, a 56-year-old Hungarian man resident in St Paul’s Bay, was riding a Honda Africa Twin that...

One more death of a patient was registered on Saturday as 314 new cases were recorded, statistics published show.The health authorities are no longer publishing data on their social media pages.Statistics published elseweher show that the total numbe...

A migrant boat has capsized off the Libyan coast, leaving at least 35 people dead or presumed dead, the U.N. migration agency said Saturday.The shipwreck took place Friday off the western Libyan city of Sabratha, a major launching point for the mainl...

Indignant over what it called Ukrainian strikes in Russian territory and following the stunning loss of its Black Sea flagship, Moscow threatened renewed missile attacks on Kyiv, where authorities said the bodies of more than 900 civilians were found...

Former Prime Minister Alfred Sant warned that in implementing further sanctions against Russia, the European Union must be careful not to impose punitive measures that end up wounding it more in the short to medium term than it does Russia.Otherwise,...

Police say a northwest Georgia man killed his grandmother by stuffing her in a freezer while she was still alive.Floyd County Police discovered the body of Doris Cumming, 82, late Thursday in the Armuchee home she shared with her grandson, 29-year-ol...

The tame back pass from John Stones trickled toward Zack Steffen. Just a simple clearance was needed by Manchester City’s backup goalkeeper with Liverpool already leading.One touch controlled the pass. The second touch was ... doing what? The d...

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces shelled an oil refinery in the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk on Saturday, and a large fire erupted, a regional governor reported.Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Haidai said it wasn’t the first time the refin...

A spectacular overhead kick from Álvaro Morata led to a stoppage-time score for Juventus to draw with nine-man Bologna 1-1 in Serie A on Saturday.Morata’s acrobatic effort was going wide until Dušan Vlahović met it with a hea...

Fourteen adults will be baptised by Archbishop Charles Scicluna during the Easter Vigil ceremony to be held at St John’s Co-Cathedral on Saturday evening.The adults will also be receiving the First Holy Communion and Confirmation sacraments.The...

The war in Ukraine loomed over the traditional Good Friday Colosseum procession in Rome, after the Vatican’s choice of a Russian woman to share bearing the cross with a Ukrainian woman had angered Ukrainians.In an apparent attempt to defuse the...

More than €3.1 million was collected for the Puttinu Cares organisation in a television marathon held on Good Friday.The money - €3,133,430 – will go for the purchase of a building in central London to accommodate Maltese patients who...

The mechanism put in place this year to increase female participation in politics had a noble cause at heart, but it also means that Malta’s already large Parliament has become even bigger. Following the addition of 12 new women MPs, the House ...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry has reiterated its call for vetting bidders properly in public procurement tendering processes for administrative compliance.This call comes days after a company linked to alleged kidnapper Chris...

Elliot Paul Busuttil, the main suspect in the murder of a man found dead in a car in Qormi last week, was charged with wilful homicide in Friday evening. He pleaded not guilty.Busuttil was one of four men arrested and questioned over the murder of Ma...

The First Hall of the Maltese Courts has revoked a warrant of impediment filed by Birdlife Malta aimed at stopping the opening of a limited hunt for the turtle dove, the hunting federation said.The courts had initially provisionally accepted a reques...

Strong winds and light rain over Malta and Gozo have led to the disruption and cancellation of Good Friday processions in most localities.Parishes in different localities, including Naxxar, Senglea and Żebbuġ Gozo, were forced to cancel the...

One patient who was positive for Covid-19 has passed away and 372 new cases were found on Thursday.There are currently 8,163 active cases. Total cases so far amount to 88,244.620 have recovered, for a total of 79,013 total recoveries. The death toll ...

80 years ago, on 15 April 1942, Malta was awarded the Commonwealth’s highest civilian decoration for courage and heroism, known as the George Cross, by King George VI of Britain. The George Cross is an award that many see as symbolising th...