European leaders blasted Russia's decision to cut natural gas shipments to Poland and Bulgaria as “blackmail,” saying the cutoff and the Kremlin's warning that it might cease shipments to other countries is a failed attempt to divide the ...

KYIV, Ukraine — In the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, a series of explosions boomed near the television tower late Wednesday and at least temporarily knocked Russian channels off the air, Ukrainian and Russian news organizations reported.T...

Minister for the Economy, EU Funds and Lands Silvio Schembri is the first minister to have invited to his office five Nationalist Party shadow cabinet ministers who shadow his extensive portfolio.In an unprecedented move, Minister Schembri welcomed I...

British filmmaker Ridley Scott has returned to Malta to film Napoleon, the biopic that the nine-time Oscar winner (with Alien, Thelma&Louise, The Gladiator and Black Hawk Down) has decided to make giving the role of Bonaparte to Joaquim Phoenix a...

The government will be pressing ahead with what it has described as the Covid exit roadmap.Last Friday, Health Minister Chris Fearne held a press conference in which, together with health superintendent Charmaine Gauci, he said that as from 2 May alm...

MEP Josianne Cutajar has once again been entrusted to continue her work as Standing Rapporteur on Gender Mainstreaming in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) at the European Parliament on behalf of the Socialists and Democrats.In th...

An investment of €1.5 million went towards a new showroom of the DARI establishment, an enterprise which manufactures local products by Maltese people. DARI’s new showroom in the Ħandaq industrial estate was visited by Prime Minister ...

The European Commission said Friday it is taking action to improve protection of journalists and human rights defenders from abusive court proceedings. Strategic lawsuits against public participation, commonly known as ‘SLAPPs', are a particula...

Malta is set to remain in deficit until at least 2024, yet the GDP is predicted to grow by 6% this year as it steadily recovers from the effects of Covid-19, according to the Central Bank of Malta.At the presentation of its annual report on Wednesday...

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Wednesday that the European Parliament will not be blackmailed by Russia.This after the Kremlin cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria – two NATO nations.“The EU will not be black...

The Archdiocese of Malta today categorically denied an allegation made by The Shift News website that Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna requested a postponement of the visit to Malta by His Holiness Pope Francis. A spokesperson for the Archdiocese sai...

The summoning by the UK Speaker of a newspaper editor has sparked a debate on free press, with journalists defending their right to report without interference and the Speaker being criticised for his attempt to muzzle the media.Commons Speaker Sir L...

Russia opened a new front in its war in Ukraine on Wednesday, cutting NATO members Poland and Bulgaria off from its gas, a dramatic escalation in the conflict that is increasingly becoming a wider battle with the West.One day after the United St...

Newly appointed Infrastructure Minister Aaron Farrugia said on Wednesday that studies are ongoing so as to better understand what is happening in our roads in the hope of reducing the number of road accidents.From the beginning of this year, a signif...

Three more people have died with Covid-19, taking the total number of victims to 696, statistics published by the health authorities show.No information is being given on the gender and age of the victims, and neither is the government providing deta...

Two fully electric, zero-emissions buses are being added as part of the scheduled public transport fleet in Malta.This was announced on Wednesday by Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Aaron Farrugia together with Malta Public...

Liverpool looks like being one European giant too many for Villarreal.Wins in the Champions League semifinals are rarely as routine as Liverpool’s 2-0 first-leg victory on Wednesday over the Spanish underdog, which appears to have finally come ...

For four months, Inter Milan had been pointing to its postponed match at Bologna as a chance to gain ground in the title race.Yet a goalkeeping blunder handed Bologna a 2-1 win Wednesday as Inter wasted a lead and a chance to reclaim the Serie A lead...

MOSCOW — The Kremlin says that Russia may halt gas supplies to other European customers following a cutoff to Poland and Bulgaria if they also refuse to switch to payment in rubles.Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Pesk...

As of the second week of May, voluntary organisations can apply for the energy and water efficiency scheme issued by the Energy and Water Agency and Malta Council for the Voluntary Sector, the government said.With an investment of half a million euro...

In the first quarter of 2022, the stock of licensed motor vehicles increased by 1,650 over the previous quarter, the NSO said Wednesday.At the end of March 2022, the stock of licensed motor vehicles stood at 414,669. Out of this total, 75.6 per cent ...

The U.S. pressed its allies Tuesday to move “heaven and earth” to keep Kyiv well-supplied with weapons as Russian forces rained fire on eastern and southern Ukraine amid growing new fears the war could spill over the country's borders.For...

Yorgen Fenech has failed to obtain bail in constitutional proceedings after claiming that he suffered human rights breaches because he has not been released on bail since his arrest in 2019.Fenech has been under arrest since November 2019, when he wa...

On the 28 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), in delivering a ruling in the case of Varchev Finans' EOOD v. Komisia za finansov nadzor, clarified that the relevant provisions of Commission Delegated Regulati...

The above title is a quote taken from a speech delivered by the chief of the European Union’s financial crime watchdog.Last week, Laura Codruţa Kövesi said that Malta is paying lip service in its efforts to crack down on EU fraud and ...

Ryanair today announced a new route for its Malta Summer’22 schedule from/to Bournemouth. This new route, which will begin on 2 July, will operate twice per week on Tuesday and Saturday, further supporting Malta tourism recovery ...

Minister for Public Works and Planning Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi said that €800,000 will be spent on works on the roof and windows of the main workshop of the Directorate of Manufacturing and Services in Kordin industrial estate.The works, which w...

The European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) revealed through a survey that the material and social deprivation rate stood at 9.8% in 2021.The National Statistics Office reported on Tuesday about material and social deprivation, ...

Qala Mayor Paul Buttigieg has been attacked by an employee of a well-known Gozitan developer, he wrote on Facebook.Buttigieg is well known for his defence of Hondoq ir-Rummien."Buttigieg was reviewing cleaning works in the locality when a truck drive...

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...

President George Vella said on Tuesday that the second edition of the State of the Nation survey will provide insight into not only who the Maltese are, but who citizens have become.President Vella, together with statistician Vincent Marmara and Stra...

One more patient has died with Covid-19, health authorities said, as the number of new cases reported Tuesday was 259.No details are being given about the victims, the number of which has now reached 693.In all, 91,032 Covid cases have been reported ...

It was the coolest of penalties at the end of one of the wildest matches in Champions League history.With his cheekily dispatched “Panenka,” Karim Benzema might just have kept Real Madrid's chances alive against Manchester City in the sem...

The Nationalist Party’s former head of its media arm Pierre Portelli has said that the party needs to go into ‘forced administration.’Portelli spoke out in a tweet on Monday, following the revelation that the Nationalist Party is &e...

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has been nominated for the prestigious European Citizen's Prize, the EPP has said in a statement.PN MEP David Casa nominated the Foundation and hailed it for its work promoting the rule of law, fighting for justi...

11 different projects received a total of €340,000 as part of Arts Council Malta's Programme Support Scheme.The funding scheme by Arts Council Malta aims to support artists in creating programmes of related activities with a common objective, wh...

Labour MEPs have nominated Caritas Malta’s ‘Tal-Ibwar’ Adolescent Therapeutic Centre project for the European Citizens’ Prize 2022, the Labour Party said in a statement.Every year, the European Parliament recognises individual...

The trunk of a tree has snapped, falling onto a road in Mellieha and is blocking the carriageway.The tree has fallen in Ghajn Zejtuna Street, as one is going down or up from the boathouses area at the Xatt ta' Santa Marija.It is blocking more than on...

A man has been charged with threatening civil society activist Manuel Delia.Edward Attard was charged with insulting and threatening Delia and causing him to fear that violence will be used against him.In a report he had filed with the police, Delia ...

The compilation of evidence against More Supermarket boss Ryan Schembri has been deferred to 11 May, with more details expected on his money laundering and fraud charges.Schembri, cousin to former chief of staff Keith Schembri, had fled the...

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...

MPX International Corporation, a multinational diversified cannabis company, in partnership with Bortex Group Holdings Company Limited, said Tuesday that its Maltese indirect subsidiary, Alphafarma Operations Ltd, has received its Licence for the Pro...

The University of Malta, through the Department of Gender and Sexualities and the Women’s Rights Foundation, has launched an awareness-raising campaign for the prevention of femicide.The project, titled ‘FEM-United – United to preve...

The Planning Commission said it has approved a revised design for the re-development of a modernist architectural terraced house away from the urban conservation area of Balzan. Although not a scheduled building, the property’s façade ha...

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...

A second man has been indicted in connection with the 2020 murder of Christian Pandolfino and Ivor Maciejowski. The couple were shot dead at their apartment in Locker Street, Sliema, in what was described as a botched burglary. Viktor Dragomansk...

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...