Between 2020 and March 2022, “no fewer than 75 people” were arraigned for cases related to online hate speech, a spokesperson for the Home Affairs Ministry told The Malta Independent.This newsroom sent questions to Home Affairs Minister B...

Edward De Bono, the late philosopher, author and bestselling mental strategist, left much less money than expected, The Guardian reports.The publication of De Bono’s final work, his last will and testament, shows that he died last summer with o...

Russia unleashed a string of attacks Monday against rail and fuel installations deep inside Ukraine, far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive, as Russia’s top diplomat warned against provoking World War III and said the ...

The Labour party’s general conference will be held over the weekend, starting on Friday, at its headquarters in Hamrun.A month after the general election, which the PL won with a record majority, the PL will hold the conference to confirm its l...

China’s capital Beijing is enforcing mass testing and closing down access to neighborhoods as it seeks to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak.Announcement of the testing had sparked panic buying in the city of 21 million on Monday, but th...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Monday that Ukraine risks provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated.”In an in-depth Russian TV interview, Lavrov blamed Ukraine for stalle...

The Nationalist Party is in big trouble.On Sunday, PN Leader Bernard Grech announced that the party is €32 million in debt. This will not be an easy hole for the party to climb out of.The party had tried to climb out of its financial troubles a ...

The Cabinet has advised the President not to grant a presidential pardon to brothers Alfred and George Degiorgio, who stand accused of murdering journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.In a statement, the government said the decision was taken in line with...

Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri insisted Monday that Malta’s anti-money laundering institutions have a “very clear role.”He was asked to react to comments by the head of Luxembourg-based European Public Prosecutor's Office, wh...

A fire broke out inside a foodstuffs factory in Triq il-Harrub, Santa Venera, on Monday afternoon. The building is located adjacent to the factory that produces the popular snack Twistees.The blaze broke out inside the the factory, owned by...

Four people have died with Covid 19, data issued by the health authorities on Monday showed, taking the total number of deaths to 692.No details about the recent deaths were given.178 new Covid cases were registered on Monday,The number of active cas...

A Russian military aviation company official who requested asylum in Malta has been jailed after he admitted to having presented a counterfeit Lithuanian ID card at the airport upon arrival.The man, who is not being named by order of the court, is ma...

The University of Malta has issued information for students regarding the MATSEC examinations.The University of Malta said it has been monitoring the situation with the pandemic and, as in the previous two years, it will address the concerns candidat...

A man was critically injured after he was attacked by a gang in St Julian’s on Sunday evening, the police said.The incident took place in a shop in Triq ix-Xatt at 9pm.The victim, an Austrian man aged 47, was attacked by a group of persons who ...

Five eNGOs said they are 'extremely concerned' that the Planning Authority has not refused an application for a swimming pool in the Marsalforn Valley, at the back of a seven-storey block of flats.The five eNGOs are Din l-Art Ħelwa Għawdex,...

Moise Kean’s 89th-minute winner earned Juventus a 2-1 comeback win in a tricky visit to a talented Sassuolo side on Monday — marking a major step in Serie A for the Bianconeri toward securing a Champions League spot.Kean, a substitute, co...

Minister for Home Affairs Byron Camilleri inaugurated new vehicles that were purchased as part of the investment made in the Civil Protection Department.Speaking at a press conference in Kalkara on Monday, Camilleri spoke about three new investments ...

A former member of the Franciscan religious order who is facing four years jail time for having sexually abused a 13-year-old under his care, has lost a human rights case.He had filed the case after not being allowed to present new evidence during hi...

2,919 individuals have used domestic violence services at least once in 2020, the National Statistics Office reported Monday.When compared to 2019, there was an almost 14% increase in the number of persons using support services on domestic violence,...

Len and Jacob are 9-year-old twins who suffer from a very rare disease called Infantile Refsum disease (IRD).This medical condition falls within the Zellweger spectrum of peroxisome biogenesis disorders (PBDs), which are a series of genetic inherited...

French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won a second term Sunday, triggering relief among allies that the nuclear-armed power won't abruptly shift course in the midst of the war in Ukraine from European Union and NATO efforts to punish and conta...

The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia's invasion.The secretive meeting wit...

NEAR THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER — The United States is giving new military assistance to Ukraine and renewing a diplomatic push in the war-ravaged nation as President Joe Biden’s secretary of state and Pentagon chief complete a secretive...

At least 12 Africans trying to reach Europe by boat have died and 10 others are missing after four migrant boats carrying an estimated 120 people sank after setting out across the Mediterranean, Tunisian maritime officials said Sunday.The Tunisian na...

News stories about Maltese volunteers doing their part to help Ukrainian refugees have been appearing in the news, and it just goes to show how the everyday person in the street could do their part to help improve the lives of others.Some volunteers ...

The Nationalist Party is €32 million in debt, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech announced on Sunday, while saying that he prefers being an authentic and honest leader rather than one who would laugh in people's faces.Grech spoke during a general c...

An accident involving six vehicles occurred on the Coast Road,  Naxxar at 11 am on Sunday, the police said.The accident involved a Nissan Note driven by a 42-year-old Sliema resident, a Peugeot 208 driven by a 56-year-old German, a Chevrolet Mat...

There were more traffic accident fatalities in the first four months of this year than for the whole of 2021, records compiled by this newsroom show. In fact, there have so far been 12 traffic fatalities between January and April, compared to 2021&rs...

Ryan Schembri, wearing a designer windcheater, jeans and trainers appeared under arrest before magistrate Charmaine Galea on Sunday.Schembri was charged with money laundering, misappropriation, fraud, making fraudulent gain, offering financial invest...

196 new cases of Covid-19 were registered on Sunday as one more person has died with the virus.Statistics published by the health authorities show that the number of deaths from Covid-19 have risen from 687 to 688. No details were given about the vic...

As expected Hibernians beat Gudja United, a win which has now put them in pole position to win the League. The Paolites were the better team all throughout but had to wait till the hour mark to take the lead. Following Floriana’s inability to b...

 Staying in the slipstream of Manchester City in the Premier League title race wasn’t Liverpool’s only cause for celebration following victory in another fast and furious Merseyside derby.Liverpool’s 2-0 win at Anfield on Sunda...

If AC Milan wins its first Serie A title in 11 years this season its last-gasp comeback victory at Lazio on Sunday might go down as one of the keys to success.Sandro Tonali scored in stoppage time as Milan came back from a goal down for a 2-1 win tha...

A man accused of setting his rented apartment on fire had spray-painted a threatening message to his landlord on one of the walls and made threatening phonecalls to him, a court has been told.Kurt Lanzon, 26, from Tarxien was arraigned on Sunday morn...

A 53-year-old motorbike rider was seriously injured in an accident on the Coast Road, Naxxar.The 53-year-old man from Pembroke was riding a Harley Davidson XL and was involved in a crash with a Citroen C3 being driven by a 58-year-old man from Belgiu...

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat once famously suggested that a PM should not stay longer than 10 years in power and that MPs should spend up to a maximum of four legislatures in Parliament, a total of 20 years.It was a suggestion that was never f...

The earlier we seek help, the better we are taking care of our mental health, Chief Operations Officer of Richmond Foundation, Daniela Calleja Bitar, said. Several people suffer from a mental problem, which has become severely prevalent in youth nowa...

Formula One champion Max Verstappen dominated Sunday in a Red Bull rout of Ferrari at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, much to the dismay of the sea of red-clad “tifosi.”Verstappen won from the pole, logged the fastest lap and picked up his...

Two Maltese citizens were in Moldova helping to build a centre to house Ukrainian refugees, while also delivering food to Odessa, in Ukraine.Douglas Barbaro Sant and Lorna Borg travelled to Moldova, and through funds collected from family, friends an...

Abigail Camilleri was one of the six Labour Party candidates to be elected to Parliament via the gender-corrective mechanism.The Gozitan MP tells us her favourite band is Pink Floyd, and she had the opportunity to watch Roger Water perform The Wall i...

The Nationalist Party will today start the process of electing its leader and, as approved in a general council last year, will return to having just one deputy leader, reversing a change that was introduced under then leader Simon Busuttil in 2013.P...

In the run-up to the March general election, Opposition Leader Bernard Grech started a process to renew the Nationalist Party and a number of veteran MPs were asked not to contest. The move, although pledged by Grech himself months before, proved to ...

The second edition of Mużika Mużika came to an end following a three-night celebration of local talent and Maltese music.The much anticipated second edition was welcomed with positive feedback from both televiewers and audience me...

A commercial tanker that sank off the Tunisian coast and and was believed to be holding 750 tons of diesel fuel in fact held no fuel at all, according to Tunisian naval officials.The ship's crew has been detained on suspicion of criminal activity.The...

Russian forces in Ukraine tried to storm a steel plant housing soldiers and civilians in the southern city of Mariupol on Saturday in an attempt to crush the last pocket of resistance in a place of deep symbolic and strategic value to Moscow, Uk...

KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military said Saturday it destroyed a Russian command post in Kherson, a southern city that fell to Russian forces early in the war.The Ukrainian military intelligence agency posted a statement saying the command p...

Three Covid-19 deaths were recorded on Saturday, with no details given on the victims.Statistics published by the health authorities show that the number of deaths from Covid-19 have risen from 684 to 687.The number of new cases reported Saturday is ...

A construction worker fell to his death in San Gwann this morning, the police said.The accident took part in Gallina Street at 8.30am.The worker, a Syrian aged 25 who is resident in Birkirkara, fell two storeys while working.A medical team was called...

A woman was critically injured in Saturday morning when she fell one storey on a construction site, the police said.The accident took place at 10am in Ta’ Xaghman Street, Sannat.The woman, aged 68, resident of Xewkija, fell one storey down a fl...

Valletta: Regent Pharmacy, 70, Merchants Street; Marsa: Vivien Pharmacy, Patri Magri Street; Qormi: St George's Pharmacy, 21, Main Street; Birkirkara: Remedies Pharmacy, Tumas Fenech Street; Msida: Brown's Pharmacy, Shop 10, Yacht Marina Apartments, ...

Maltese institutions, which include the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General, have failed to initiate prosecutions in court against people involved in corruption scandals, the president of the NGO Repubblika, Robert Aquilina, said.Speaking in...

A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.There's no way to know for sure whether it was the ...

The PN on Saturday called on the government to take immediate action to reduce the waiting list for emergency surgery at the Orthopedics Department at Mater Dei Hospital. PN spokesperson for health Stephen Spiteri said that many patients are sufferin...

A motorcyclist was grievously injured on Saturday in a traffic accident in Santa Venera, the police said.The accident took place in Ferrovija Street at around noon.The biker, a49-year-old man of Xewkija, was riding a Suzuki GW250 which was involved i...

Ahmed el Fadalli Enan has been found guilty of complicity in the attempted importation of 50kg of cannabis from Tunisia in 2010 and sentenced to 25 years in jail.The Egyptian national from Fgura was also fined €40,000 after a jury delivered a 7-...

Hibernians have a golden opportunity to move closer to the title with a victory over Gudja United this afternoon as second placed Floriana dropped precious points in a scoreless draw against Birkirkara.Now Hibernians have a one point lead over the Gr...

Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus scored more goals in 53 minutes on Saturday than he had in the previous eight months in the English Premier League.Becoming the first player in the league to score four goals in one game this season, Jesus led Ci...

Defending champion Inter Milan gave a signal of intent as it crushed Roma 3-1 to move on top of Serie A on a miserable return to San Siro for former coach José Mourinho on Saturday.Denzel Dumfries, Marcelo Brozović and Lautaro Martí...

 President Emmanuel Macron is in the pole position to win reelection Sunday in France's presidential runoff, yet his lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on one major uncertainty: voters who decide to stay home.A victory in Sunday's r...

ADPD said today the government needs to act quickly to minimise the impact on the Maltese economy by Russai's invasion of Ukraine.“With the spiralling increase in the price of essential commodities that is also expected to continue in the comin...

KYIV, Ukraine — An adviser to Ukraine’s presidential office says Russian forces are attacking a steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol.Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to t...

Max Verstappen overtook Formula One leader Charles Leclerc on the penultimate lap to win the sprint race at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on Saturday and reignite his season.Verstappen started the sprint in pole position after finishing first in Frid...

The European Union reached a landmark deal early Saturday to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content.The law will force big tech companies to police themselves harder, make it easier for users to flag problems and emp...

Former parliamentary secretary John Rizzo Naudi has died, aged 96.A doctor by profession, Rizzo Naudi served in five parliamentary legislatures between the 1970s and 1990s.He was first elected in 1976 and remained in Parliament until 1995.He had serv...

Russia and Ukraine hurtled toward what could be an epic battle for control of the country’s industrial heartland as Ukrainian officials reported that Moscow had shifted a dozen crack military units from the shattered port of Mariupol to eastern...

George Hyzler passed the first stage of his European Court of Auditors grilling with flying colours on Thursday, with 25 out of 28 members of the European Parliament’s CONT committee approving his nomination.He was nominated to take the post by...

Ryan Schembri, the boss of the More Supermarkets chain, has been arrested in Scotland, according to Net News.Schembri fled from Malta in 2014, leaving debts that reportedly reach some €40 million.According to the report, Schembri was arrested on...

The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry on Saturday appealed for local authorities to lift travel restrictions from third countries.The Chamber called for the revision of rules regarding quarantine upon return from a third country, whi...

70% of people aged between 13 and 25 years have reported feelings of anxiety, according to findings from a Barometer Research of Youth Mental Health. The Richmond Foundation, an organisation which provides mental health care services organised a...

Almost all of Malta’s Covid-19 restrictions will be removed as from 2 May, with Health Minister Chris Fearne promising “normality with responsibility.”The announcement was made during a press conference on Friday.Fearne said that be...

Daniel Muka has been indicted over the murder of Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski, The Malta Independent has confirmed.The evidence stage of the compilation of evidence against Daniel Muka, who stands accused of committing a double murder, h...

An elderly Englishman, who is 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 on Thursday.Police said in a statement that they were informed at around 7pm on Thursday t...

249 new cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities on Friday.552 people have recovered from the virus, and no new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, meaning that the number of active cases currently stands at 5,567.2,038 swab tests...

The PN has condemned the killing of protected birds, which it said reflected irresponsible acts of illegal hunting."In two separate incidents, 10 protected birds known as Marsh Harriers were injured. They were found wounded and some of them killed in...

On Monday, a Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) team reported a hunter for leaving a 14-year-old minor unattended with a loaded shotgun, the group said in a statement."The kid was filmed sitting alone in a hunting hide, holding the loaded shotgu...

As part of a new pilot project, from Saturday 7th May catering establishments will be encouraged to separate their waste, particularly organic waste.Through a new initiative, organic waste collection will take place on Saturday and Sunday between 1.0...

Prosecutors in southern Portugal are formally accusing a suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who disappeared nearly 15 years ago while on a family vacation in the southern European country.A stateme...

The police have issued a wanted person report for a man who they say has breached his bail conditions.The Police took to Facebook to ask the public for help in tracing Alexander Anthony Gialanze Whiteford, saying that he has breached bail conditions....

"EU membership meant adaptation and change for Malta. In many areas it opened horizons of opportunity, in others we need to recognise failures. More than ever, we need to ensure that new EU legislation drafted in Brussels reflects better our island r...

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...

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.The full grilling can be watched below.Hyzler,...

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 ...